Like Chris Kluwe?

True, but it's often used to shut someone up. It's harmful to people's ability to express themselves freely. Harassment can happen for many other reasons, and all of them are bad, but I think harassing someone for having an opinion you disagree with is among the most harmful. (Though harassing someone for belonging to a group you consider inferior (women, minorities) is also right up there.

No, it is never okay to harass, threaten of dox anyone. However, women are most definitely harassed for being women more than men are harassed for being men.

The fact that men are more prevalent on some internet forums is at least partially the result of women being made very unwelcome in those places.

I think this is the real important point here: many fans of laissez-faire economics call that "real capitalism". According to them, you can't say capitalism is a failure, because it simply hasn't been tried yet. Any government interference makes it not really capitalism anymore. But the one gem in capitalism, the one really, truly unmitigatedly good thing about it, is the free market. But with everybody looking to dominate the market in some way, the only way to keep the market free is to regulate it in a sensible way, break up cartels and monopolies, and force some competition in places where it is clearly needed (like the broadband internet market in the US, perhaps?).

And of course the regulators need to be independent from the industries they regulate. (Again, ISPs buying laws that block competition and ban community broadband is something that shouldn't even be possible. Or car dealers lobbying to block Tesla.)

Does capitalism depend on people being truthful all the time? Somehow I don't see that working. I thought the robustness of capitalism came from relying on everybody to be selfish bastards.

It's a nice analogy, but you need to keep in mind that most people are just driving to work, not trying to win the Indy 500.

Performance is a very specific use case, and not remotely as important as it was during the 1980s.

I don't think that quote says anything about static versus dynamic typing, as each group is about 50/50 divided between statically and dynamically typed languages.

For really, really high performance code, of course you use the highest performing language. But that's a pretty extreme use case. Most games do not require huge numbers of simulated objects on the screen.

I think Netherland has a similar law. The idea that helping makes you liable sounds very unDutch.

Are you really sure about this? It sounds like a "broodje aap" (urban legend). I'm no lawyer, but as far as I know, Dutch law tries not to punish sincerely helping people.

If he's untrained, he does not have the judgement to decide not to follow the instructions. If the instructions tell you to cut away the bra, you cut away the bra. If the instructions tell you to only cut away the bra in certain circumstances, you only cut it away in those circumstances. Charging him with sexual assault is only reasonable if he clearly went way beyond what the instructions told him to do.

It's not like creeps stand around with AEDs looking for women to save.

The world is bigger than your country.

The problem here is not the principle of paying your taxes, but that you guys keep electing the wrong people into office and don't punish them for giving you all that crap.

It doesn't matter what else you do. As long as you keep electing bad governments, you're going to get bad governance. Nothing is going to fix your problems until you fix that.

I'll have you know I had my home computer calculating all night long to generate a single flying toaster.

Why did this get modded down? I know Anonymous Coward regularly posts some inane crap, but this is a very valid question.