Every US citizen is yelling for their constitutional rights broken by the NSA. But no Europeans complain about what the NSA is doing to THEM.

Well, that would be counterproductive. See, we get upset when the NSA spies on us But we love when the NSA spies on not us. The best strategy for EU residents is to shut up an hope we go too far in shutting down the spying.

I mean, I pay the NSA to spy on not us. That's their fucking job.

Well, they've been working to replace Foxconn workers with robots. Presumably, once enough of the line is automated, they'll rip it out of china and move it to somewhere cheaper

Most student loans will cover unpaid internships.

Also, yeah it sucks, but what's the pragmatic solution. Financially well-off parents means better childhood health and better education, almost certainly leading to a better qualified future candidate. All other things being equal.

who does the best work. If you don't think this is true, ask yourself whether you'd rather have a semi-competent pilot flying your airliner because the airline was forced to accept hiring quotas, or whether you'd rather have the very best pilot available controlling the airliner on which you are a passenger.

Competent is fine by me. I don't care if they are Charles Lindburgh reincarnated or just some guy who can keep it, metaphorically, between the lines. In fact, I'd rather the pilot was cheaper and the savings passed on to me. (Which also seems to be what the airlines have done)

Now, unqualified/incompetent is a different matter. But, not the best does not imply unqualified.

"Doability" isn't. How long you look at the post is. So, FB figured out your preferred use of their service is to look at small pictures of attractive women.

Facebook isnt interested in you as a person, theyre interested in you as a product.

Why would it be otherwise?

Ethically: Because someone read Kant.

Financially: Because it will likely lead to a longer lived network, that makes more money over 90+ years, but less money in the first decade.

happy people pay more attention to ads(citation available if anyone cares)

Please. It seems logical, but I'd like to see some data.

Are you proposing that all of physics is untestable because we don't know how to test it inside of a black hole?

Yes. I'm saying the the total set of all physics is currently (and likely to remain) untestable. Which isn't to say that science cannot handle it. We use principles like Occum's Razor to say that if it is the best description of what we can observe, then we assume (pending further disproving) it is true.

Which works out great. I mean, "truth" is a nebulous concept. One can construct a universal coordinate system that treats the earth as the unmoving center, and has the sun moving around it in strange shapes. And, in fact, that's the coordinate system we use through most of our daily life (folks at NASA, SpaceX, etc. excluded). But we recognize when it becomes more convenient to have a different truth. Also, similar to how I've never concerned myself (outside of class) with relativity, but GPS engineers had to.

Heck, even relativity wasn't testable when postulated. It took like 40 years to conceive of a test.

So I suppose my entire point was against the unreasonable goal of testability for all facts.

Neither is an assertion about the absolute limit on speed in the universe(really: devise a test for that).

An absolute speed limit is as testable as anything in physics, and it's tested all the time in linear accelerators.

Really? Then you have empirical evidence disproving my "Things can totally go faster than light in a vacuum once you cross the event horizon of a black hole" theory?

Sure, but it's no different than most other physical evidence, in that it's dependent upon the trustworthiness of the person presenting the information

It's totally different. You normally cannot decide to just start leaving someone else's DNA and fingerprints behind as you commit a crime. You normally have to clean up using imperfect physical/chemical processes.

It's not that anyone thinks it happened in this case. It's not that the end result of this case is bad. What people are reacting to is the possibility for abuse of the precedent in the future.

No dude, your books are not so incredible that people will buy them no matter what the price. There may be a few people who are like that, but most aren't. Price matters in entertainment.

Per hour, books are pretty cheap. The idea that I'm going to devote, what, 10 (randomly chosen) hours of my life to something I'm not going to pay some premium for quality is crazy.

Premiums differ. Hell, descriptions of quality differ.

. With the ebook you get a ... license to read the book but only in the format you purchased your license for.

This applies equally to physical books.

With a real book, you own a copy. Full stop. You can resell it. You can loan it. You cannot make more copies (except under fair use)... maybe an archival/backup (Check your local laws). But it's your property.

Copyright covers the rights to reproduce a work. Not to control what happens once a work has been (legally) reproduced and sold.

With digital copies, some asshole convinced some judge that to be used it has to be copied from memory to RAM, so digital works come wrapped in a license that allows just that.

Mandatory disclaimer: IANAL

Do you have a good source for obscure plumbing adapters? The best I've seen have been crazy expensive off amazon.

Also, looking for obscure plastic adapters to run small (3/16-5/16) hoses for projects.

the Internet needs to be seen in the same light as universal healthcare

It is. Did I mention I live in America?

You know what these people are going to do, right? For cancellation, you gotta have a brick wall they can't navigate around.

That's just a ton of excuses. If you really want to have fun:

Them: "WHY DO YOU WANT TO CANCEL?"

You: The Martians will kill my parents if I don't

Them: "We will give you 3 months free service just to keep you as a customer."

You: Good lord, they're already dead. The Martians are resurrecting them just to kill them.

Them: "Are you dissatisfied with our service?"

You: MOTHERFUCKING MARTIANS MAN!

Or you could refuse to discuss it and just cancel the fucking account. It's been a while since I cancelled Comcast. They were dicks, but they can really only keep you on the phone if you let them.