Actually we're the only country that wasn't blasted into the stone age during WWII

Canada and Australia say hi...

"Windows 7 also runs great on older hardware"

On older hardware with enough RAM and at least 2 cores, yes. With the caveat that the older hardware has drivers for windows 7 (and yes, there's plenty of stuff that didn't, especially in terms of soundcard drivers etc).

"5. The best part of farts"

I'm missing this. How does being deaf relate to the moment 5 seconds after you exit the elevator when the doors begin to close and those recently who recently entered begin to gag?

So if you're gay and your boss is anti-gay, you're not allowed to say you'll quit?

I don't know about a political organization, but in terms of politically visible persons: George Takei was fairly vocal in this (with lots of discussion from his supporters/detractors in regards to that as well). Sometimes it seems that an official political "organization" versus "group with figurehead" is a blurry line sometimes.

"It's clear that Brendan cannot lead Mozilla in this setting"

Seems to me it's more "he can't lead because there's a small army of people actively attacking the company based on his leadership"

In this case though, it sounds like the conditions weren't so much created by the employer as created by the online masses.

I've heard of going back to at least as early as the 1960s

I've heard of pranks that involved *moving* cars (heck, the football team relocated a teacher's lada), but not something that resulted in intentional damage to somebody's vehicle, and certainly not en-masse.

"Which is infinitely better than 0% chance of returning home."

Except in those days, many people really didn't know that there was any chance of returning home.

"Anywhere else the oxygen would have to be created."

No disagreement here. A self-sustaining biome of sorts is one of the biggest hurdles, and frankly something that should be mostly figured out before we send people offworld. There's no sense in sending anyone if they can't create replenishable O2 and nourishment.

Right now it seems to be a bit of cyclical argument. Why send people if we don't have the necessities for survival. Why prepare a replenishable environment if nobody will want or be able to go.

The difference being that they had a hope of returning in the "Age of Exploration".

Often, they didn't know that, and the changes of not returning home were >50%

One way trips have no hope of returning.

The likelyhood of this is also greater than 50%, but less than 100%. Who knows what discoveries could be made off-planet?
That said, not everyone who "didn't return home" in the colonization days died, some settled despite the harsh environment. This would be more the intent of such a mission off-planet. It's being portrayed as a death sentence, when really it's more of a chance to be part of early colonization attempts.

Law does take into effect intent. In this case, is there a legitimate case for "revenge" porn? The topic implies that by nature the content involves posting pictures without somebody else's consent. How is shutting it down and/or charging the owners different from doing so with a site called something like "kp-central.com" which knowingly lists the purpose as housing underage pornography, or an illegal pharmacy/gambling site?

If they want to be legit, include a release with the pics like regular porn. If they get a notice that content is not legit, take it down. If not, go to court/jail.

Yeah, I think that the advertisers (and Google seems to be particularly bad at this) really need to crack down on certain obviously-misleading ads. I've seen a creeping increase in the "Green Download Button" ads, which really serve no other purpose than to mislead people on download pages into downloading and installing the *wrong* product (generally malware).

Sorry, you want room 6a "fossil and book nerds"

You're in room 7b, "angsty nerds who still live at home with mom but mock other people's success"

I got that, but the whole thing is predicate upon apple breaking their "thinner and simpler outward design is more elegant (and better)" concept, which I can't see them doing.

Unless the new phone has a lense that's more susceptible to damage, I'm not sure how useful this is. Almost every incident of damaged iPhones I've seen is a cracked front screen (digitizer/LCD), not a broken camera lense.