Mostly in hopes that NK has launched nukes and I can just not bother to go in to work today.

government has via franchise laws

Not since the federal government outlawed exclusive franchises in 1992.

Now the government prevents competition by not allowing companies to steal fiber and enslave labor and tresspass on peoples's property. If you try and do it legitimately, well, Just laying fiber in Kansas City cost Google over $1 Billion to reach 80% of the city, not counting the final connections to the houses.

Not even Google has that much money lying around in their couch, which is why they've stopped rolling out fiber (the court cases haven't made it any cheaper though).

Someone who starts work at 7AM has plenty of time after work

Because she teleports back home instead of taking a bus and two trains? If it's a 3 hour trip there, (leaves 3:45 and starts at 7), and she works 7-3, a 3 hour trip back gets her home at 6PM. Now, if she wants a solid 8 hours of sleep, she immediately goes to bed to wake up at 2AM to do it all over again.

Exercise makes you look good. Not eating 2000 calories for lunch makes you look skinny.

The biggest thing the calories in vs calories out people miss is that running a marathon burns about 2000 calories. You had a big hearty breakfast, a burger shake fries and coke for lunch, a bag of potato chips for a snack, and a big dinner with a large slice of cake and two scoops of icecream for dessert, and more coke throughout the day? Hope you run two marathons a day.

Yeah, I've heard the phrase "no bad tactics, only bad targets" bandied around as "tactics" become ever more extreme.

Not once do I ever hear someone say "what if someone else gets to pick the targets?"

But I did laugh long and hard at Trump whining about warrantless wiretapping of his staff members' phone calls to Russia. Not a bad target at all.

Used to be that we'd tell people that if the employer had a problem with you over something you said or did outside office hours, they weren't worth working for anyway. I'm sure there's plenty bosses that don't care as long as you don't show up to work with a nazi flag.

P.S. We hang conservatives by their balls

P.P.S. When you're done hanging, please vote for us!

when there is a girls-only CS class at school, is it discriminating against the boys who also have a CS class and a CS after school club that is 95% male

So there is no "boys-only" class, only a class that more boys than girls want to take and a club that more boys than girls want to join. What exactly is it that will make your "girls-only" class more popular with the girls?

using that key for EVERYTHING

You can't use that key for EVERYTHING, all of the routers between your computer and whatever VPN company you're using needs to be able to read the VPN company's IP address on the packet in order for them to forward the packet in the correct direction.

Yeah, the first step is to get the human to look at the sign in the first place.

If so, does that mean all you have to do to get them out of your way is flash some lights for a bit?

Works on human drivers too. I guess that means humans aren't ready to be driving yet.

And the sign has to physically exist for everything that isn't a self-driving car

And the humans driving won't be fooled at all by fake signs put up by trolls (mostly because humans ignore most of the signs anyway).

And now it stays a monopoly because it cost Google over one billion dollars to try to compete in a single city (Kansas City). And that was WITH the government bending over backwards to wipe out regulations and restrictions in order to become the very first Google Fiber city.

The only way to beat the telecoms without government intervention is to have pockets both deep enough and full enough that you could have just bought the company outright in the first place, in which case you'd become the new monopoly.

Eh, nobody's going to pay for maps of dead bodies. I'm more interested in buying maps of houses with very expensive TVs. Preferably if the house doesn't have a gun safe.

they are not entitled to distribute any of the resulting products

If I steal a hammer and use it to build a house, the extent of punishment for stealing the hammer is a year or so in jail and/or paying for the hammer plus a fine. Home Depot can't tear down the house or stop people from living in it.

If I get a sale Ford fender stamping machine and started to sell fenders

Not sure what exactly you're trying to say here, but you're describing every third party aftermarket part maker ever. Unless you are stamping "Ford" onto the fender, then you're violating trademark law.