Exactly.

It's not an absurd notion. Refusing to utilize available technology is an error of action, not an error of inaction.

"You certainly have no right to violate the integrity of anyone else's body by forcing drugs into their bodies."

Fair enough. The other option is to quarantine them. They can exercise their freedom, but they will not be allowed to leave their own property, ever, for any reason, until they have been vaccinated. If they demonstrate a proclivity to violate this restriction, the penalty will be forced vaccination.

"ignorance of the law is not a valid excuse for breaking it" - It should be. If smart laypeople can't figure out the law, the law is wrong, period.

"Their target market is kind of niche" - Niche or not, their target market is the people who are saying they should give Sparkfun a break. 2 + 2 = ?

That's a bullshit rule that trademark lawyers invented to protect their own jobs. Common sense and human decency should override it.

It's called The People. Stop withholding relevant information from the responsible watchdog organization, and everything will work itself out.

It's not a "self-righteous crusade", and it has nothing to do with "higher morality". Anti-vaxxers threaten my family in a very real way. Merely taking their kids is better than they deserve.

Then the problem is the algorithm used to evaluate those teachers, not the fact that they are being evaluated.

"I played around at writing code, but I never actually learned any of the other skills that are just as much a part of being a programmer."

If you haven't learned those skills in fifteen years as a professional, the problem isn't your age. I became a professional programmer at the ripe old age of thirty-six, and learned all the skills you're afraid of in my first year on the job. I had to!

First of all, there is an obvious value in everyone converging on the same social space. The value of the space to any user is a function of the number of other people who use it.

But it's already not true that everyone uses Facebook. Other social networks are popular outside the US. For that matter, other social networks are popular inside the US. I'm told that many teenagers already regard Facebook as yesterday's social network.

Or von Braun. SS officer, stole a bunch of his own files and then told the allies where they were.

Make their kids wards of the state until they pull their heads out of their asses.

"First off, getting stuck with a class of crappy students can cost you your job . . ."

No, that's not how the evaluations would work. The improvement of individual students could be tracked and evaluated against the standard.

"Once they receive tenure, they should no longer be subject to evaluation . . ."

That should not be true of anyone.

Troll Hunter really was a documentary.

The majority of issues I have had with any cable company were related to their DNS being shitty. For some reason, cable companies don't know how to operate DNS.