Its possible that its your expectations that are off, rather than the functionality.

You could always take slashcode and make your own site if you arent happy with the service your money gets you here.

Because a 2.5kW laser is still sufficient to burn things, and once the mirror starts to lose reflectance it will start down a path of exponentially reducing reflectance.

That is,
0.0s - 0.1s: 95% reflectance
0.1s - 0.2s: 90% reflectance
0.2s - 0.3s: 80% reflectance
0.3s - 0.4s: 60%
0.4s - 0.5s: 20%

Etc. Source: Numbers are made up and hypothetical.

I would be in favor of even harsher punishments for those in authority than those not.

I guess you're so unwilling to understand the opposing view point that you're perfectly ready to believe in a caricature of it. The person you responded to is an AC, clearly setting up a strawman, and has baited several of you into attacking it.

Congrats to the AC, you've successfully trolled several people in this thread.

PSSST, hes playing the part of straw man. Dont feed the trolls.

If he were correct, then the thing he did would not be a wrong.

Obviously we believe he is incorrect, and that what he did WAS wrong, and as justice relies on a concept of proportionality, death seems like the appropriate response.

Society imposing a proportional punishment on one who has inflicted wrong on another is commonly called "justice", not "two wrongs".

I would contend that less than the death penalty here would be to de-value the lives of those he killed. Taking another's life is too serious of a crime to punish by any lesser measure.

You might recall that we have a justice system, and that justice is generally defined by punishments meted out in proprotion to their crime. What punishment would be more just than death for one who has killed many?

On the flipside for anything remotely complex like printing you would expect it to be riddled with bugs and about 5-10 years behind everyone else. Lacking subsystems means creating 3rd party apps for it will be "fun": sounds like a return to DOS days. Which I guess is good news for me, because I never got to experience them in their heyday, so I can see firsthand what instability looks like when you dont have OS provided APIs for things.

That sounds like theyve been actively un-learning all of the lessons the computer science field has spent decades learning.

Here everyone else has been learning how abstraction can promote collaboration and keep bugs simple, and theyve found a way to justify removing abstraction as a way to reduce complexity (lol?).

China has state policies on human rights and freedom of religion, as well.

This is called a risk assessment, and its something that most people (and the media) have no patience for: its far too levelheaded, and not nearly hysterical enough.

This is the sort of logic that would block implementation of automated plane systems which could save thousands of lives per year because it might crash once or twice.

A system doesnt need to be perfect to be implemented as a replacement; it just has to be better, when you look at the big picture, than the thing it replaces.

There are a lot of things that might kill people; to reduce the number of people killed to zero isnt possible, though you could pour endless resources into trying to do so.

The question is whether there are reasonable ways to provide access to 911 that do not themselves create worse problems like swatting; 70% of calls being fradulent starts to get into an area where legitimate services are impacted. Put another way: how many people die because legitimate resources were diverted by fraudulent calls?

Comparing the NSA to the Chinese MSS can only be done by one who is completely in ignorance of them.