The best thing Wikipedia could do to attract women's attention would be to extensively cover the upcoming prince William's wedding.

Sadly, my statement is both outrageously sexist and completely true.

They can be and are. But if fake comments become the majority, the community moves away from the site and chooses a new one. If the site is reputable its comments are, too. Creating hundreds of users and thousands of fake comments is an expensive and not very effective method to fight piracy.

I'm a tad perplexed on how so many people think that working 11 hours a day is unprofitable. A huge amount of business owners, lawyers, MDs, scientists, freelancers do that. Are all these people so retarded they don't understand what's good for themselves?

We are talking about individuals. Hugely different from one another. Some are smart, others less so. Easily distracted, highly focused. In astonishly good health, or sickly to say the least. Tough as sumo fighters or frail like paper ballerinas.

Coudn't we just say that "unpaid overtime" clause should be considered illegal in any system of law? That the employee is obviously the weaker part in the contract, and therefore should be protected from being strongarmed into signing unfair contract terms? The whole history of civilization has gone in this direction: more balance between the weaker and the stronger parties.

Of course this should be paired by laws which protect companies from unfair competition by those which use slave labor (forced, unpaid or unfairly paid).

It's obvious all this should rather be discussed with your MPs than with your geek peers.

I know, this is just utopia, it is not affordable and cannot be achieved. That's why the US weren't able to abolish slavery, right?

Marx is dead, but justice doesn't feel very well, either.

You needn't be that smart to win a Nobel Prize

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6868905.ece

I'll gladly run the risk to be considered as dumb as the unnamed politician in your post: don't you see the risk of a gray zone in countries where the vast majority of people worships (and see as role models) prophets which had sex with individuals below ten years of age? Do you think that a "you can bang 'em, but no pictures allowed" attitude will effectively protect children? Maybe this won't produce websites, but let's keep an eye on traditional cultural acceptance of pedophilia, shan't we? Would you mind taking a break on your political agenda and clearly state your position regarding religious figures who weren't so clear cut on "kids out of the bedroom" behavior?

I'm no hard-core Christian fanatic, but to be honest, let's remember that 600 years before the events in question a guy called Jesus didn't pretend his God told him to get laid with kids, so it's not just a matter of changing sexual behaviors. I would just say it's the eternal right-against-wrong battle.

Some of the "first world sensibilities" aren't so idiotic. I don't find a world with just 3 mammal species (dogs, cows and ourselves) particularly attractive.

But you can still hope the Chinese will take care of the project, so that no wildlife would survive in North Africa.

No need to worry, actually. It won't take longer than it took the US to switch to metric. People will just realize it's a better option and start using it voluntarily.

Anyone having technical knowledge willing to explain whether a drone is more likely to drop off the sky than a helicopter?

Today in Rome a guy put a woman into a coma punching her in the face following a trivial quarrel. He was caught in a matter of hours because of surveillance camera at the railway station. Case closed. No need for witnesses, no need for excessive legal fees for the grieving immigrant family and for the taxpayers.

I guess people who overdo their philosophical exercises get punched in the face much too seldom.
Violent people are no longer afraid of prison in so called civilized countries. At least, let's increase their chances of being caught.

Are you a teacher in Microsoft's course "Monopoly, Cartels & Area 51: debunking conspiracy theories"?

Ink cost for inkjet printers shouldn't be a big issue because those who print more than very few pages either buy a laser or a CISS system. I have been using two of the latter for years and at the cost of a brand spare nanocartridge I get 1 liter black or 0.5l color. Less than average quality Highlands.

It's WORM activity, and this guy's not gonna dump his movies. Fragmentation is not an issue here.

You need to have a way to protect society from extreme stupidity. Either you treat the guy as if he had human mental capabilities, or you reduce his rights: getting a driving license, right to sign contracts and so on. The only unworkable solution is letting him do whatever passes through his (half) mind without negative consequences for him.

That's an excellent argument that the not-so-bright camp is actually the less populated. Pissing off a mobster, albeit remotely located, may harm your health.
These guys tend to have buddies wherever their business is.

Yeah, insightful irony. If you can't bust Osama, why bother going after all those small time would-be-muscle hijackers.