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That may or may not be true, as there have been no trial (apart from one in Spain where there were acquitted).

Actually a Spanish court ruled that rojadirecta didn't break any -Spanish- law.

Also, they were already acquitted in Spain.

I've got a lot of things to hide, only they are not illegal.

I actually did install Linux to prevent video games. It doesn't work: you still have slashdot to prevent any kind of work to be done.

Canards still exist, for instance the Eurofighter has a fully articulated horizontal stabilizer on the front.

I don't trust common sense since earth is not flat

That's the main point of the article. Currently, as clearly shown by every statistics energy consumption is constantly growing (with a small "pause" during the ongoing crisis depending on the country). The author just states that this energy consumption grow cannot continue for much. He does not say that that means the end of civilization, nor necessarily an economical disaster. On the contrary he says that:

So he just points, with very good arguments, that "continued growth in energy use becomes physically impossible within conceivable timeframes".

In Spain private copy (and file sharing) is also legal and had always been. Then they introduced the "private copy tax" you speak about, of course not to keep private copy legal, but because it was infeasible to change the law in regards to that, and a way to monetize the situation was needed by the powers that be.
Fortunately, the EU ruled the tax was illegal. And later some members of the SGAE (Spanish RIAA) were arrested for embezzlement of the money obtained by such tax.
I ignore what's the current situation, but given the fact that wikileaks revealed US pressures to the Spanish government to change the copyright laws, I'm assuming these victories won't last long.

Arduino is NOT a microcontroller, but a DIY prototyping platform (which of course includes a microcontroller)

The funny thing is that it's portrayed as something positive, when actually the least jobs you need per megawatt the more efficient you are at producing energy.

Bigger brains does not mean smarter people (RTFA) and IQ tests are pseudoscientific crap that are not proved to measure anything.

I worked on the north of Spain (Galicia) for some time as a Chef de partie specialised in selfish. On that region everybody's got strong and often opposing opinions on how selfish is to be cooked, and without feedback it would be impossible to keep the customers happy. Once, I saw a customer left part of his King Crab dish (our speciality), so I asked if everything was OK. At first he hesitated but finally he told me he felt it was a little undercooked. I prepared a new dish and the customer was so happy he became a regular of the place. That's how I met the Japanese guy I talked about before.
It is not confrontational: people just ask for what they want politely, and it's definitively not specifically western.
As for the food quality and specially service, I guess it's just a matter of opinion. I tried the best crabs on N.Spain and Southern Norway, not in Japan, but then there are over 150000 restaurants in Tokio alone (10 times more than Paris) and I've only been to 2 , so making such an absolute claim like the one you make seems a little wild to me.

But eNygma-x never said he's actually using Google+, so I guess he's just expressing his general opinion on the policy, which is as I understand the point of Slashdot. "Don't use if you don't like it" is, I think, self evident, doesn't says anything about the topic, and sounded to me like an invitation to stop complaining instead of continuing the conversation, and hence my criticism. I never meant to say you think people should remain silent.