I would rather live in a world similar to what Mad Max depicts

I have never understood the obsession with resolution.
I know a few people who have all the latest and greatest tech gadgets, who refuse to watch anything that is not 4K.
When 1080p HD first came out, they also stopped watched anything in SD.

While there is some content where the fine details are important, the majority of TV/Netflix/entertainment content does not fall into that category.
My opinion has always been that if it is worth watching in HD, it is worth watching in SD.
If it is crap in SD, it is crap in HD as well.

To me it looks like these people just spend more money so that they don't feel like they wasted money on their shiny expensive 4K TV.

Most people are not very smart. It could become a POPULAR desktop operating system.

The real question is Could Android and iOS become GOOD desktop operating systems?

The answer to that question is no.

Reminds me of an old quote: "nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people"

I was not aware of that. thank you.
But that still does not explain why they closed the observatory.

The FBI is just doing this to get the conspiracy nuts to focus their attention on something minor while they do something else that they do not want people to know about.

(Or they share my sense of humour, and are doing this just to mess with crazy people)

Your age seems to be affecting your memory as well, since you posted that comment twice in 1 minute.
One good thing about that is that you can just watch the same movie over and over

The human race will evolve a lot faster if we make it easier for stupid people to kill themselves.

Have you read the article?
I get Only one in 10 employees is aware of IT security policies

I will use any encryption that you want me to use.
As long as you can prove to me that you use the same encryption for everything at the FBI.
If you are not willing to do that. GO FUCK YOURSELF

Just because you're paranoid, it does not mean they are not out to get you

The people in to it are generally above average in an academic sense.

That usually just means that they memorized a bunch of shit in their specific field.
I know a few complete morons with masters degrees. Mostly lit or art, but that still qualifies them as "above average in an academic sense".

Smartest Motherfucker in the Universe Syndrome.

Their intelligence leads to a hubris which leads to them doing dumb shit.

That is not intelligence.
That is arrogance.

Being intelligent doesn't make one informed.

Being intelligent, means you know how to make yourself informed.
Being smart means you do it.
We are not talking about intelligent people here.
We are talking about stupid, arrogant bastards.

this metaphor is a pretty huge devaluation from the original concept.

The only unicorn i have ever seen was a mule with a strap-on dildo on his head.
To me, most of these unicorn startups look just as stupid.

Snowden is not responsible for this.
Clapper and his friends in the intelligence agencies have been abusing their spy powers for years with overreaching dragnet surveillance operations.
If they were not such abusive, power hungry megalomaniacs, most people would not consider encryption a necessity.
Clapper needs to take responsibility for his own actions, and not blame people who actually do something to protect and defend the constitution that he uses as toilet paper/

My code. My rules. That is all the justification I need.
If you don't like my rules, don't use my code.

The GPL is about the freedom of the code.
with the BSD/MIT/whatever licenses the code is more Free to start with. The GPL makes sure that the code stays Free.
If you don't like the GPL, don't use it.
You just have to understand that different types of people appreciate different types of freedom.

That statement makes it look like it is almost a surprise.
Most engineers that I know are more concerned with the problems that can arise with fully autonomous vehicles than Joe sixpack, simply because they have at least some idea of how it works.
In an uncontrolled environment, there will be something that you did not plan for, and it is just a matter of time before there the shit hits the fan.
For Joe sixpack, a computer is a magic box. They don't know how it works, and they don't care. Until something goes wrong.