I don't want them to be indestructible, but since they cost 10 times as much, it is reasonable to expect that they will last longer, not less long, and that they will be more resilient, not less resilient, and they will produce more light, not less light.

Out of the 2 Android phones that I have had, zero of them came with Facebook preinstalled. I blame the mobile phone provider.

This. And for the ultimate example, I give you Metro. Let's have the same interface across all platforms, and since mobile devices can't do the more efficient input methods, we will instead dumb down the desktop so that it uses the inefficient input methods.

Well, if bad power is an ongoing problem, then obviously it would be extremely irresponsible of the bulb makers to make them so dependent on clean power and it would be irresponsible of the government to outlaw bulbs that are more tolerant of lower quality power.

I also write the dates on mine because I have also noticed that they don't last nearly as long and I also haven't seen any noticeable reduction in my energy costs. In fact, my energy costs are about triple what they were before CFLs came out.

Even nerd top 10 lists are still a popularity contest. These are the best celebrity programmers, but chances are there are thousands of better programmers that just have their heads down in code at some obscure company somewhere. Probably many of them have solved complex algorithmic issues in clever ways that other programmers like the ones in the list are still struggling with.

I live in city limits in which fireworks are illegal. So when my stepson asked whether they should light the fireworks they just bought in the front yard or the backyard, I told him neither, because they are illegal. He complained that they shouldn't be able to sell him fireworks if they are illegal. I pointed out it is his duty to know the law. He ended up firing them off in the backyard, as did I am sure the 90-95% of my neighborhood who also were firing off fireworks that night.

Are you saying that most people on Slashdot can't read, since most people on slashdot are from the United States? Or are you saying that, although most people on slashdot are from the U.S. , they are mostly illegal immigrants? Or are you just remarking that most people that can read in general are not from the United States, independent of the number of people who read slashdot?
Or according to Alexa, we should only be posting surveys relevant to Indian holidays, since supposedly visitors from India outrank those from the U.S. Not sure I believe that. I wonder if perhaps a lot of servers are hosted there due to the U.S. offshoring of tech jobs.

I don't know why they choose to have an improper date format on the 4th of July, but not on other days of note. Obviously, they should be using a consistent format that is sortable, such as 20140704. Everybody should be able to understand that and it is least significant to most significant and sorts properly both as a date and as a number.

Well, there are likely in the 100s of billions of storage devices out there in the world, and probably thouands or even tens of thousands of them have some CP on them, so the odds are perhaps 1 in 10 million that a device has that on it. Far better to try to spend money trying to find that 1 in 10 million than to actually catch and prosecute ACTUAL child molestors.

Other than financially, I don't think most people in the U.S. support any of that. Some people rant about it, others tolerate it. I have heard nobody actually applaud it other than the entities themselves and the people who profit from them.

I guess we must have a lot of snitches out there, because it is almost a daily event where we find that a "random" traffic stop found umpteen metric tons of whatever is illegal this week. I'm kind of surprised that people actually consent to the search. It seems like if they were real criminals they would be more likely to know their rights and say "no" to the search. A random citizen probably wouldn't have anything to hide and would not know that they can say "no" to the search and since they don't have anything to hide, they just would say yes. But then perhaps it is just these random citizens who are getting caught with all the drugs.
I don't know, one way or another it is just highly suspicious that so many random stops end up finding huge amounts of drugs. Either that or I am way behind the times and EVERYBODY runs around with large amounts of drugs in their car.
I've never been asked hen pulled over if they could do a search, but then I am not of a certain color or ethnicity, and I don't have any priors. Those are probably the two biggest factors in determining if they want to search.

Absolutely it is. Depictions of fictional characters involved in a a fictional molestation of a fictional victim of unknown age (because it is fiction) but which, if translated into the real world, may have been an underage individual, is absolutely illegal in many jurisdictions.
It is also illegal in some jurisdictions to possess video in which a person who IS of legal age engages in sex while dressed up to appear to be someone not of legal age. It would also be illegal to film that video in those jurisdictions as well, and probably also illegal even if not filmed to have your significant other dress up as a teenage schoolgirl/boy.

Same here. I have two fans in the living room that take the chandelier type bulbs. I have replaced 3 of the 4 bulbs in each with CFLs over the last 10 years owning the house. Each of them still has an original incandescent still burning, but the CFLs are all dead and need to be replaced. Even if you factor in any supposed energy savings, the extra cost of the bulb and the fact that they don't last near as long as incandescents make them a poor choice.

Unless, of course, they allowed him access to Facebook between his arrest and his release.