Don't forget the British Charm Unit, asswipe.

The reason that languages fragmented in the past was that populations were fragmented and rarely communicated. That is not the case today. Increasingly concentrated mass media in English will cause accents and dialects of English to converge. Mind you, the root English will also evolve over hundreds and thousands of years, but eventually, everyone will speak this root English.

the world's aircraft are responsible for roughly 2.5% of global carbon dioxide emissions

All human activities contribute only 3% of global CO2 emissions; the other 97% are natural. Buried deeply in a footnote somewhere is that they are talking about *ANTHROPOGENIC* CO2 emissions which means that aviation is actually responsible for only 0.075% of global CO2 emissions. These political activists should really stop lying.

He didn't claim it was an analogy. He claimed that one is the other.

Factually incorrect.Copyright infringement and theft have completely different legal definitions and different laws apply to each.

You're starting off on a false premise, and using mathy-looking letter variables doesn't make your logic any less sloppy.

I didn't have myself either. It's acually pretty common.

I guess the Perl-loving neckbeards at /. were right all along.

Actually, science "states" (or rather, simply recognizes) that it can't investigate anything that doesn't leave any observable evidence. It's religion that works hard to ensure that their cherished phenomena all stay in that category.

FTFY

Reading their editorials in the first place is kind of like eating their dogfood and washing it down with their kool-aide.

I disagree: God+life is a bigger miracle than life alone.

Which of those categories does UNIX editors fit under?

Is that what I think it is?

Theo de Raadt for no other reason than he is Theo de Raadt.

This is all from memory, but as I recall, the actual problem is in the solder manufacturers are forced to use for ROHS compliance. It is less flexible than the old lead-tin solder of the olden days.