The USA constitution does NOT give you rights. It protects your rights from your government.

It gives you legal rights in recognizing moral rights.

Oh, you're right. Silly me.

But you can't expect me to read the entire summary before commenting. :-)

root (also known as superuser)

On a largely Linux-focues tech news site you just defined 'root'. Why not also define '32-bit compatibility mode', 'Linux', 'kernel', '64-bit', 'privileges', 'web server', 'call', 'emulation layer', 'Syscall table'.

Protip: We're nerds. Write for your audience. If I don't understand a term, I can look it up. I'd prefer to have to do that than have random definitions stuck in the summary.

Demand stays the same. Quantity demanded goes down.

This sounds like nit-picky semantics, but it's an important distinction. When we say 'demand is lower' it comes across as saying lower equivalent supply hasn't hurt people--there's X less supply and people want X less, so it's okay. It does hurt, though--they want the oil just as much as before, they just can't have it.

3. Technology to the rescue!

It's not about to run out. It's about to--wait for it--PEAK. Production has been increasing since its discovery and soon it will begin to decrease--but 'decrease' (or even 'decrease fast enough to be big trouble) does not equate 'decrease quickly enough to solve global warming', especially considering the time lag.

open sourced an algorithm

Does it horrify anyone else that we talk this way now?

clive and mplayer to the rescue.

http://abstrusegoose.com/92

75% more scenes with TOO MUCH CRAP going on.

'Fuck you, Rick Berman! You ruined this too?'

Yeah, only dumbasses like Tyler Cowen and Aza Raskin.

There may not be much expert discussion on Twitter, but when you dogmatically insist that everyone on Twitter is an idiot you're actually identifying only one person as an idiot.

People who abuse their right to guns are the reason some think we shouldn't have said right.

Yet we're still leaving troops there

Remember how we were all mad at Germany early in the Iraq war? Do you remember how we punished them? We started some of our troops out of Germany and shutting down American military bases in the country. Why did we have military bases in Germany in 2005? Because we put them there during the Cold War, some immediately following World War II.

So, yeah, we're keeping a military presence in Iraq, just a we've kept a presence in Germany for over fifty years. It's strategic to have bases spread around the globe.

You just listed a bunch of products who essentially stalled their own development for years and were overtaken by competition. If Microsoft's success depends on Apple not releasing any new products or updates to their current products, I have some bad news for them.

No one's complaining about people simply not buying games. Free market capitalism for not preclude IP. Perhaps you should consider not being a smug asshole and make your point honestly next time.