slashdot used to purge -1 and 0 rated comments from old stories. "So what?", you say. "Why should they store goatse links and ascii art penises?" But before the misnamed lameness filter, there was a vibrant troll culture. These were works of art that spawned adequacy.org and had a lot of time, creativity, and effort put into them. Much more interesting than the "linux good, microsoft bad" groupthink that made it to +5 informative and wasn't purged.

Linux finally won! Why isn't Android "Truly Free"?

1. it's ugly

From a programmer's perspective, the UI is massively different. You really need to go through and update all your artwork and customizations to match. The size of the navigation bar changed (and it's translucent by default) so you also need to rearrange a lot of your views.

There's also a lot of minor things where maybe you were doing it wrong before but it didn't matter... and now it breaks. Or deprecated stuff (which can accumulate for apps that have been around for a while).

Oh it would be stable, much the same way the "suck my asshole" economy is stable, in that no one is participating.

I prefer ass quarters -- they're ribbed for your pleasure!

Bad example -- in Mass., felons don't lose their right to vote. They do lose their rights to own guns but the gun laws are so draconian that they never really had that right in the first place. Most people who own a gun are breaking the law in doing so.

100 copies of "Copyright Extension Collection Volume 1" (yeah, that's the name) were sold in Europe last year.

yeah, not his fault -- they gave him the wrong teleprompter.

Not slashdot's fault, this time. The real conclusion is that multivitamins don't cure heart disease. But who takes them to cure heart disease?

My rock might be useless at keeping tigers away but it's useful for throwing at glass houses.

Thanks but we all know you'll get bored and drop support for it in 6 months, bricking your (because it's licensed not purchased) thermostat in the process. If you have a problem with a Nest thermostat, you can call them up and talk to a person. If you have a problem with a google anything, you can, well, fuck off, because supportis the one thing Google can't find.

My theory is: I don't give a shit.

Do you even lift?

Nah, 4 tvs in one room, tuned to skinemax, spice, weather channel (don't ask) and playboy for an extended jack off session.

If he expected to be treated like previous NSA whistleblowers or previous Obama era whistleblowers/leakers, why would he do that?

At best he could talk to someone like Ron Wyden or Mark Udall. Except they already knew what kind of shit the NSA was doing and couldn't say or do anything about it.

Lets account for all those costs. I can buy an incandescent light bulb made in the US. Where are those LED lights made?