Or, as I like to think: you can agree with the right people and the right ideas, but such agreement is not a serviceable substitute for actual intelligence.

Hey now, I give him credit for QBasic. It was my first exposure to programming, pre-internet, using nothing but its superlative help file.

If Malware can do it, so can legitimate-ware, perhaps? Emergency tasks can run on cpu-pegged systems, like maybe Windows Task Manager, if they were designed to run on the GPU instead of the CPU?

In what universe would a libertarian support one man's aesthetic determining another man's property rights? In what universe is this Maoist? I think you are knowledgeable of neither libertarianism nor Maoism.

And "brogrammer"? Seriously? Submitter is an entitled, classist jackass.

The idea that granting pardons contradicts the government's role as a guarantor of personal liberty is pretty tortuous; pardons exist so that government may more perfectly secure freedom for individuals that, by means of imperfect justice, are imprisoned. You suppose that it implies the exact opposite of what it does.

The difference between (+5, Insightful) and (-1, Offtopic) is knowing which thread you're posting on. ;P

It's time to put a stop to it, too. We need to organize. #gategate

The average football fan is not an NFL player.

I disagree. They are not tasked with keeping us safe; they are tasked with safeguarding our liberties.

Your #1 scenario hinges on the Windows admins in question being illiterate morons, having just sat at a computer for the first time that morning.
Your #2 scenario hinges on the Linux admin being too stupid to pick up cross-pollinated skills.

I find both of these scenarios unlikely.

Extinguish what? Their own Powershell? Wouldn't deleting the source repository be faster and cheaper?

I like Cohiba's, I really do. But I think a lot of the obsession is just the forbidden fruit tasting sweeter. For my part, I prefer Sumatran leaf to Cuban.

"The software industry has pretty much decided what information patients should receive, and to my knowledge, they have not had any stakeholder input."

Maybe fix this part first.

are bad laws. Period. I am hard pressed to think of an exception.

I think "app appers" applies more appropriately to Apple appreciators.