That's just it, though: Iraq was a sovereign country. If they had WMDs, that still wouldn't be a justification for an invasion.

Awful and mediocre programmers (the majority) are trying their hardest to make their software as inefficient as possible so as to completely or mostly eliminate any advantages we get from the latest and greatest technologies.

Well, some corporations did try to stand up to the government, so that doesn't apply to everyone. But still, the point wasn't that it's surprising, but that all this is unconstitutional.

In my experience, it's because high school math is taught equally terribly. No... more terribly, because the subject matter is more complex. Useless busywork and rote memorization abound.

The assignments are just awful. Doing 10 "Find the missing side of the triangle" problems does not lead to understanding. It's just an exercise in rote memorization, and so are most word problems. 99% of these problems result because our education system is simply terrible all around, and the homework assignments are abysmal too.

Whatever.

Nope.

All of which is taught exceedingly poorly, so everyone who didn't make an attempt by themselves to understand the hows and whys will forget it anyway.

But as I said, I'm done with you. You lack the imagination to perceive how others might be different. It's sad, really.

The problem, of course, is that corporations mostly just do what the government wants.

Death threats with zero proof that they're credible are a different matter, though. Especially when they're on the Internet.

Yes. Your problem seems to be that you think all censorship must necessarily be bad or done by the government, but that is not true and has never been true. The idea that censorship can be used by entities other than the government is to well established in our ever-evolving language by now that you should probably just give it up.

I can't even count the number of male characters that are constantly slaughtered in video games. Whoever would make such an assertion is an idiot. Most of the random thugs in video games are male.

That just means that men are regarded as having no value (not even sexual value) whatsoever to these developers. Almost no time needs to be spent on their appearances or their backgrounds; they're just objects to be discarded once their purposes are fulfilled.

She'd be getting a fucking PhD for these opinion pieces? Is that all a PhD is to you?

That's just silly. Just because someone does something in a video game that would be considered bad in real life doesn't mean they're a sociopath, irrational, or not sane. I hope this is just a misunderstanding on my part.

Nothing can be insulting to a gender. Individuals are insulted.

No True Scotsman is so popular.

And wait... what is a "man"? Do you think gender roles are good? Or were you making some point?

This particular discussion is not about the executive order itself, but more about the collection of citizens' information without a warrant, which absolutely is unconstitutional.