The FCC is tasked with governing and regulating how citizens communicate, including the Internet. They are not clearly overstepping their bounds, they're just in a grey area as to where the line should be drawn. Part of their job is to make sure citizen have "good" access to the Internet. It can get pretty bad before the FCC can step in and make changes, but many think we are already there and the FCC is dutied with fixing the situation before it gets worse.

Even if voting actually mattered for many of these decisions, mob rule via vote is never an excuse for making bad decisions.

If you took the drugs, then it's proof that you were in position of the drug at one point.

You bring up another subject of discussion

Which scenario would you rather be in.
1) Save one person's life, but let 1mil other perish directly because of your "good deed"
2) Kill one person knowing it will save 1mil others.


Would you rather kill or save the one person?

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions" has two meanings.
1) Doing evil with good intentions
2) Doing good with good intentions, but getting a horrible outcome

Harvard, funneling money from the rich to the brilliant since 1636.

GPAs above 4.0, hah. The only GPA my Uni cared about was the local high school which had some accredited classes that actually counted towards credits. Otherwise their stance about GPAs that they were arbitrary numbers and completely worthless. All that mattered to get in was ACT, SAT, or a valued recommendation.

Do advertisements add enough value to my existence to compensate me for the time lost? Not rhetorical, I think it's a good question. Having some commercials while watching TV may be the only reason I have something to watch on TV, I can appreciate that. But in the paste decade or more, commercials have consumed such a large portion of the time of TV, that it was no longer worth the time investment to be constantly interrupted, taking 30 minutes of my time to watch a 15 minute show.

I guess I would use that as an example. Another staggering fact that I learned while in school is that about 50% of the cost of enterprise software is marketing, If you pay $10k for some software, about $5k of that cost was convincing you to purchase it in the first place. I understand that to some degree that marketing is a necessary evil, but holy crap!

As someone with a bad memory, command lines suck for everything except scripting. Give me multiple choice. 80% of my work can be done more quickly via a UI than commands.

Derp, the only difference between a transaction database and data warehouse is the datastructures and algorithms.. herpa derpa.

And the only difference between a train and semi is the engine and body.

When I was doing research into databases and total cost of ownership, Postgres was pretty much the best until about $100k, then MS-SQL caught up and it was pretty much a tie. MySQL was pretty bad the entire way through. There were a few other databases, but they were both uncommon and not ever better.

With Postgres and MS-SQL being pretty much a tie on TCO, just choose whichever best fits your situation. Postgres does have a low barrier of entry and can do some pretty nifty things, but those things increase the base technical expertise required to program and administrate.

There's also no such thing as deceleration, you're just accelerating in the opposite direction of your current relative motion. The break petal is also an accelerator, except in the case when you have no relative movement. No one ever said reverse discrimination was not discrimination. Languages are not math, you can't expect a negative modifier to actually mean it changes the sign of a word.

I could tell when my FPS dropped below ~75 when I used to play CounterStrike on my 85hz CRT. I got to try a friend's 120hz CRT and it was noticeably smoother than my 85hz when I needed to quickly turn around or I was doing close combat knife fights and lots of pixel movement was going on.

I remember having a virus on my computer that all it did was consume some conventional memory, even to keep many programs from working, but your system would still boot.

Ohh blackmail, that's illegal also. Both a criminal and civil issue. You can be thrown in prison on top of being sued for losses.

As my professor said many times, users NEVER know what they need, only what they want. It is your job to determine the requirements, not the user, you decide what they need.