If you don't want your car or house searched, don't buy one.

There are a number of places (internet cafes, gaming shops) that host, essentially, lan parties on a regular basis. Maybe it isn't the arcade that's dying, but just single game consoles. You don't need specialized hardware to run most games, so why have a giant box that only plays one game?

How do you know his PCBs are pale?

"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." - Dr. Carl Sagan

He likes to make his PCBs, for things he is making for his own enjoyment. He's making a binary clock, it's already inferior to a cheap digital clock he could buy for less than his blank PCB.

Everyone hates lawyers, until they need one.

I'm seeing an ordered list in firefox 3.6.13 without any css editing.

They raised $16 million by receiving $16 million in donations, in part by adding a banner asking for donations at the top of their pages. It also works for public radio in the US. But the burden of supporting Wikipedia was still shouldered disproportionally by a small percentage of users.

Wikipedia has the benefit of all their content being provided for free by volunteers, which greatly reduces the amount of money they need to operate. Not all content is produced that way, and I really don't think it ever will be.

It's essentially the tragedy of the commons. If it takes $1000 to make an album, and 1000 people download it, if everyone donates one dollar it breaks even. But if only half of the people donate, they each have to donate two dollars for it to break even.

In a donation based model, there's an incentive not to donate: if you don't donate, you get the thing and keep your money. For every person that doesn't donate, the burden on those that do donate is increased if the system is to break even. Everyone who doesn't donate is freeloading on those that do. Even if 10,000 people were to donate and 1000 were to donate one dollar, they still paid more than they would have needed to without the freeloaders.

Society figured out a way to prevent freeloading, and it was by making people pay for things.

So would you prefer that he used Mercedes Benz instead of Ferrari in his analogy, or are you arguing that tablets are Ferraris?

I'm not sure where you live, but I see a lot more Fords than either of those.

I would assume that if they were interested in checking you for DUI, you would be in your car.

No, it's an innovation that China implemented sim city in real life.

I would guess that "I shot my friend Timmy with daddy's gun" incidents are down, now that daddy's gun spends more time in his waistband and less time in the drawer with his special balloons. I would like to know if there's an increase of "Daddy shot himself in the jimmy, now there won't be any more Timmys."

I'm pretty sure we have this argument every time someone mentions zero day. If we could have a zero day bricking, we could have the best thread ever.

If you can't afford $50 a month for internet, you don't sound like a very good target for advertising. If you aren't a good target for advertising, why should google care how your experience is?

Maybe you should look at the higher requirements as a way of weeding out undesirables.

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