Not religion, sport.

No, he likely just lacks a belief there is god. Most atheists are agnostic atheists, not gnostic atheists.

Oh, I'm sorry, did you think you were trolling?

Yeah, because spring legs are really related to robot hands...

To be fair, the prosthetic is kind of crap compared to a normally functioning human hand.

That that sentence is worth saying at all really just says how far we've come.

Here's a novel idea: if the local news calls it a school shooting, then it's a school shooting.

He's commodore64_love. 'Idiot' is implied.

That is not how networking works.

Amazon collects tax it has actually presences in, such as Washington State.

Virginia Tech didn't have a school shooting then? I'm sure they'll be glad to hear that!

Some of us are mature enough to recognize that we have rights which are not yet necessarily codified into law. That you speak of laws when others speak of rights is very interesting, I wonder what your father would say about that.

This is irrelevant however since under US law consumers are legally permitted to use their computer hardware as they see fit. Its a right that is inherent in the entire legal concept of ownership. In this country we don't need laws specifically allowing actions, we only use laws to specifically ban things.

Now, when a company decides to implement technical measures to restrict my rights as a consumer, and decides to start lobbing lawyers at whoever dares challenge those measures, they are technically in the legal black. When they start retroactively removing advertised features....... Well, let's just say they start to seriously deserve whatever happens to them.

If you own hardware, you have the right to use it. Sometimes the government doesn't back you up, and sometimes corporations or private citizens don't respect you, but you always have that right. If you cannot grok that short and simple concept, then you have no sense whatsoever.

It is not a matter of profession, it is a matter of consumer rights. The right to use your property as you see fit. If you have to buy yourself into a right, then your right is being violated. If you buy a car from Ford, you don't need to purchase additional permission from them to use it in Canada instead of Mexico; it is your right to do so and they have no right to prevent it. If you purchase a laptop from lenovo, they have no right to tell you that you must run windows, it is your right as a consumer to run what software you see fit on your property. Etc.

asshole

That is your (quite clearly emotionally comprimised) opinion. I don't give a shit about it.

If you are trying to offend with those scare quotes, then I'm afraid you have terribly failed. I'll be the first to point out that (Dependant on the quality of the school involved) computer science is either a mathematics discipline, a vocational program, or some combination of the two.

But no, lacking an education in the particular science involved or demonstratable proof of flaw, you are not qualified to pass judgment on those who actually know the science. No morose than the chemist of modest note who gets on the news saying global warming is bullshit.

I bet you're an anti-vaxxer too, fucking moron. I love the hints of homophobia too by the way...

1) I didn't make the analogy, so take your indignation and go fuck yourself with it. I am not responsible for your emotions, and I don't care if you find what others say to be offensive.

2) As previously stated by another, differences in scale do not invalidate analogies. No matter how much it may offend you, the AC's analogy still makes a point which you have thusfar avoided addressing. If something is only free for a select group of people, then it is NOT truly free.

Address his point, or shut the fuck up because nobody cares.

The only argument that you have is "I am educated in an unrelated field, so I'm going to disregard experts" (sounds a lot random non-geologists/climatologists getting themselves interviewed on CNN saying global warming is rubbish, don't you think?), and "you are pro-nuke, so you must be in industry".

I'm a software developer with absolutely no ties to the nuclear industry. The difference between us is that I know when to defer to educated experts while you do not.

That, and I don't see conspiracies whenever I close my eyes...

Wow, you're a lunatic Sony apologist.

But I repeat myself...