But then you would miss out on the socializing bit.

I don't understand why people are excited about paying $60 for a few games that should be out of copyright in a sane world when you could spend $60 on an android based box that can play every NES and SNES and Sega Genesis and Apple II and Fairchild Channel F and Atari 2600 etc game ever made.

Actually they are doing just that: the NES Classic is an ARM box that can play every game up to the first Playstation. See here for the details: snesclassicmods.com. (The NES Classic and the SNES Classic has the same HW and underlying OS they just run a different emulator by default).

It's "its moon" if you want to be that pedantic.

With the site populated heavily by neo-libertarians, you'd think the people defending taxis and their artificially inflated prices would be at a minimum

Uh, what neo-libertarians hate is taxes, not taxis.

First, the braking distance from 60 mph to 0 changed from 152 feets to 133 feets. We're talking about a 12.5% improvement

And that's a HUGE improvement.

Also, if you took the time to read TFA, you'll have learned that the issue were about the Anti-lock braking systems not aggressive enough

I could not see any mention of that in the article linked from the /. summary.

Mandelbrot's* well-known "How Long Is the Coast of Britain?" article (published in 1967) starts with this question - and it goes on to discuss self-similar curves that are a type of fractals.

*: yes, he is the guy who came up with the Mandelbrot fractal

Hadn't Linus dropped off the top contributor list long ago?

Yes. And Steve Jobs was never the Employee of the Month at the Foxconn factory where the iPhones are actually made. But that doesn't matter.
It's still Linus who ultimately decides what is and what is not accepted into the kernel (either directly or by delegating it to people he personally trusts) and makes the major decision regarding where the kernel is headed and that's the thing that actually matters not writing a few hundred lines of code to support a new wi-fi chip.

So they have received about 800 USD / year?

I was not aware that members of a congressional committee come so cheap.

It looks like a crossing (and it certainly should be) but it's actually not:
streetview

Okay and this is ENTIRELY besides the point.

I did not ask in general - I have asked in a very specific case.

No.

I was not the one to come out in the defense of banning hate speech so I really don't see any reason why I should be defending it.

However it was you who put apostrophes around hate speech.

Actually it's called price discrimination and is an ages-old pricing strategy.

"to appease the barbaric, Muslim, rapist hordes of men"

Care to elaborate on how it is NOT hate speech?

Actually I have a Xiaomi Redmi 4x.
It costs about $140, has a 4100 mAh battery so it doesn't run flat in a day, IR so I can use it as a remote for my TV and set-top box, has a microSD slot and even a - hear that, Sony? - 3.5 jack, 3G RAM and 32 GB flash - so it's totally adequate for everyday use.

on the other hand, Adobe didn't really have a business model to go with it.

AFAIK Adobe's business model with Flash was always to sell authoring tools - opensourcing the player would have not affected that model.