How is that disturbing?

They're trash because they don't do anything that isn't already:

A: Handled by your phone
B: Handled much better by a dedicated device
C: Both A & B

A good wearable device would be a blood glucose monitor for diabetics that shows real-time (or near-real-time) levels from an embedded sensor, removing the need for the person to sample and test periodically.
Or what about a wearable device people have been using for ages? Bluetooth headsets.

Good wearable devices REDUCE your need to rely on or interact with other devices. Bad wearable devices (everything Samsung et alii are peddling) try to INCREASE your dependence on the device(s). I'm not throwing the idea out completely, I'm throwing out all the recent (and upcoming) forced attempts that don't actually have a use-case. These are the things currently being put out under the "wearables" buzzword. Nobody trotted out that term when Bluetooth headsets were being introduced. They didn't need to - people saw that they we useful and bought them up.

Nope. Rusty Shackleford every time.

Absolutely. What's more is that "case law" isn't an actual thing. There is law, and we interpret it to decide cases. Those decisions are not law. ALL cases are to be judged individually. Referencing past decisions can be helpful in balancing expediency and thoroughness, but past decisions are not to be used as law, even if coming from a higher court.
When laws are unclear and interpretations are split, the higher courts hear appeals and decide. When a very high court hears a case the legislators pay attention and work to change the laws and make them more clear to prevent the contentious interpretations in the first place.

Of course, that only works if our government follows its own rules and does its own job.

On the contrary - it's all publicly-funded business.
The public has a right to know if their money is going to someone who is never at the office doing the job they're supposed to be doing. They don't need to know if he's got the flu or if he's in Maui, but that's what redaction is for, and it's why courts use 3rd parties to verify and sanitize shit during discovery.

Except the very premise of the fucking court decision and FOIA request is that the data, the collection methodology, and the relevant communications Mann had about it are NOT available. We don't want a subset of the manipulated data, we want the full set of raw data. It will never be provided because, as everyone knows, the data was cherry picked, massaged, and outright fabricated in order to generate an alarming graph. Not even the most zealous of global warming proponents stand by the graph anymore - everyone knows it's bullshit.

No thanks - I already have a position in academia. I can tell you with complete certainty academia is the epitome of waste and self-congratulatory bullshit.

Anything that makes "wearables" die out faster is good in my book. Keep releasing different models all running different OSes and all doing different versions of nothing useful. Manufactured product pushes are like diarrhea. The sooner all the products exit the pipeline, the sooner corporate sees that marketing was blowing smoke up their ass when they told them "wearables" were going to be hot, the sooner I don't have to hear about them and, hopefully, the sooner that marketing dipshit is fired.

The same goes for the asshole who decided that Wendy's, Carl's Jr/Hardees, and Sonic all had to jump on the non-existent pretzel bun bandwagon. Oh wait, nobody actually wanted those? Better jump on the ciabatta bandwagon! That failed too?! Well what about brioche? Still no boost in sales? Revert back to our "classic" buns to save money and leverage our brand!

Being professors just makes a much worse waste of time and money.
Oh, he's a "genius", is he? Good for him.

Traditionally, typeface designers have considered legibility and aesthetics in their work (in addition to typesetting limitations). Apparently those factors are optional now as well.

OK, these are interesting intellectual exercises. But don't try to sell them as examples of typeface design, because that's a creative discipline that goes beyond mathematical questions of "can it be done?"

Best Buy would have made a decent effort to please an upset customer by offering free Geek Squad support to the point of diagnosis / asking Chris to look into it (instead of Frank, who's just does sales), but not free repairs/upgrades. Best Buy would have jumped at the opportunity to upsell him some Geek Squad if possible after that first assessment.

Regardless of it being open, he can return it and get an exchange for the same item easily in the US, and for store credit fairly easily in the US.
He can return for a full refund in whatever form of payment he initially made in many countries, including the one he's in.

I'm pretty sure I account for about 1% of those downloads from trying every fucking build multiple times to find one that fucking works (or breaks in different but more-tolerable ways) when opening various MS Office documents.

An explosion is anything that involves an outward motion and accompanying noise. It comes from the Latin explodere.
You can try to split hairs about burning, exploding, and whatever the fuck else you want, but ICEs run on exploding fuel. The expansion from the explosion is literally what drives them.
You would have had a better chance if you had tried to correct my usage of the word "shit".

If he had gotten it from Best Buy he'd have basic consumer rights to refund, a working product, etc. enforced by policy and executed by a human (be it a sales associate, manager, whoever).
If he had gotten it from best Buy he would have received actual human interaction when first complaining about it. Best Buy may be a joke and the Geek Squad may be a ripoff, but the mere presence of a human being who has some idea of how to troubleshoot shit, or at least whose job it is to keep customers happy, is about 87 miles ahead of Steam's "support".

Steam support simply doesn't exist unless you threaten to issue a chargeback or sue. No human at Valve even SEES your support ticket until 2 automated "solutions" are generated and spit out - 1 blaming your ISP and 1 telling you to delete clientregistry.blob or reinstall Steam. After that they blame the developer and close your ticket.

No, writing things in Java guarantees your shit will be jacked.