Maybe. Still, it's nicer to listen to a dreamer than a naysayer, even if the latter is right. I miss the optimism mankind used to have.

Again: the idea is not to convince individual parents, but to change culture. Starting with the schools, perhaps. It won't be just your kid being without a cellphone then, will it? Sometimes it really does take a village...

That's why the author proposes a culture change; obviously you're not going the change anything by being the only parent to follow his advise. Thankfully, parents and educators are becoming more aware of the negative effects of cell phones on kids, and this article hopefully will add a little more fuel to that fire.

A little while ago cell phones were banned from primary schools here in the Netherlands. Since the start of this year, they are banned from high school classrooms as well; schools can choose how to implement this (for instance: let the kids keep their phones in their lockers, and allow use during breaks). Not a complete break with cell phones, but it's an important start.

They have already sold me the car. I modify and accept a contract later....Which is what makes an invalid contract, it should have been presented before the sale to be valid.

Compared to today, it was a smaller part of the overall price of top of the line computer. I remember having 16Mbytes for some reason, though I only needed 4Mbytes for most applications, and that was the standard most computers came with when I bought my computer.

It just used more memory, and memory was stupidly cheap at that time. It wouldn't have been a problem.

Maybe. Before we had Office 365, Office did not need any selling point besides the fact that everyone else was using it. And before we had Office 365, we often had document management systems that were actually any good*, and allowed easy sharing and managing access to documents. But it seems we have largely forgotten about those**

*) Sharepoint is definitely not one of them, I'd hesitate to call it a document management system of any quality.
**) Thanks to Sharepoint.

LibreOffice is there for the using. And no we don't need this cloud crap.

That is how contract law works. You can strike and sign what you agree to. Whether they accept it is up to them. If they have no way of refusing the contract changes , then it already is not a real contract

Absolutely. That is not "a problem", that is its purpose. They've floated similar ideas in the EU with regards to free speech, and it is the same approach they have taking with banks being tasked to police illicit transactions.

Sounds like it merely found a bunch of pro-choice protest posters, and perhaps mixed them up a bit.
(And before anyone starts: I'm very much pro-choice)

If you use proprietary code or software that infringes on something, worst case is that you have to pull the software and find a replacement; the person who sold you the software is liable for the infringement. If you use FOSS however, the buck stops with you. That's the value of companies who sell you FOSS software (by charging you for support and maintenance): they provide a legal shield as well.

I assume the problem will be efficiency and getting more cores on the chip as they have a much worse manufacturing node.

I've had some experience with this, and the main issue our company had with using GPL code (or even GPL software) was the fear that the piece of GPL software itself was in violation of some license, either not wholly compliant with GPL or worse: incorporating some proprietary code. As Legal pointed out, the company was already successfully sued once for copyright infringement, for using an infringing piece of FOSS in the company.

Releasing our GPL-based software under a GPL license was never much of an issue.

"You will own nothing and print happy"
The summary mentions that repairs aren't included in the plan, but the HP site promises that inoperable printers are replaced the next business day free of charge.