Oh yeah, shooting at American aircraft is like totally not a big deal.

When those American aircraft are over your country without your consent or justification under international law? It's to be expected, the same as if Russian aircraft were over our country.

Do you think, our involvement in the First World War was "screwing the world"? How about the Second? I bet, you don't lament those...

WWI was a pointless battle between imperial powers and we should have stayed the hell out of it. The Pacific battle of WWII would not have happened if we hadn't played the empire game in the Pacific, stealing Hawaii and threatening Japan with Perry's "black ships"; the European theater was a straight-up result of WWI.

We should never have been in Korea or Vietnam. Or Iraq or Afghanistan. Or the Philippines or Cuba or Puerto Rico or Guam.

Our history since the Civil War shows that the founders were 100% right about the temptations of a standing army: once you've got one, you want to use it.

I like to sew confusion into a jacket, then walk through a crowd wearing it.

And for the grammar trolls, yes I know a sentence should not begin with "And".

I know this is a tangent. But it is perfectly grammatical to begin a sentence with "and" or "but".

So how do I have the same song in multiple playlist when the definition of a playlist on other players were "files in a folder"?

Good lord, they really do let anyone in here nowadays, regardless of technical savvy. Son, have you never looked at an m3u file? It's a list. Of songs, each song being one file path. You give this m3u file to your music software and it plays each one, in either sequential or random order.

I find it so contradictory that the same mass of people that seek booths in order to hide who they vote for, are so willing to hand out information that's much more personal to a site like facebook.

I will decide what's more or less "personal" for me, thank you very much.

Probably because Apple's business model isn't based around being as sleazy as possible.

Citation needed.

We don't have to deal with constant unwanted advances - we only do the dating thing when *we* want to.

On the other hand, the "first mover" has to deal with the threat of rejection, of even ridicule, in a way that the "approachee" does not.

Being able to successfully make the first move takes courage, self-confidence, communication skills, at least a pretense of extroversion, and charisma. Yes, some of these things can be learned, but they are also partially innate. (And someone who goes looking to learn these skills is likely to find the hideous misogynist "pick up artist" community. Ugh.)

I've approached women and I've been approached by them. (And by men.) It's a hell of a lot easier on the ego to say "no thanks" than it is to be shot down by someone you're attracted to. Perhaps, if you're a charming natural extrovert, YMMV.

Note that "behaving like a jerk", which is the problem here, is orthogonal to "making the first move".

How about.... when a man wants to send a message to a woman for the first time, first of all they need to spend $10 to buy a "point", the content (with sender and recipient anonymized) get sent to 5 other random men for approval; they will be asked "Is the content appropriate and respectful" Yes/No ?.

Fine, just as long as the same rules apply when a woman wants to send a message to a man for the first time. Or a man to a man, or a woman to a woman, or a transgender person who does not identify as either "male" or "female" wants to contact someone.

Gender equality means gender equality.

If kids could not be prosecuted, some poor, down on the luck, homeless kid will end up taking their own photograph and selling it.

And that would be horrible. Far better that said hypothetical kid remain impoverished and homeless, right? It's not as if anti-porn concern trolls are going to want to pass laws to make sure kids aren't impoverished and homeless. And it's not as if we could have kids under adult supervision by any means other than criminal prosecution, right?

Better yet, you can look at the porn you steal, so long as you don't -

The recursive expansion will keep it tied up in court forever.

Windows, nein!

You beat me to it.

Once upon a time, there was this stuff called "Read Only Memory". Not EPROM or EEPROM, but ROM. Once it was created you couldn't change the contents of it.

If I was worried that scammers were going to take a board that I was selling as a Whizzo rather than a Whizzo Plus because it didn't meet Whizzo Plus specs, and flash it as a Whizzo Plus anyway to rip off customers, I'd put "Hi there I'm Whizzo serial number 987654321 born 2014-09-24-18:58:56 GMT at the Utopia Planitia assembly line, signed <digital signature>" somewhere in a bit of that old-fashioned Read Only Memory soldered to the board in a tamper-resistant manner, and also have that serial number etched into the board.

It's a manager's job to manage.

In theory. In practice, it's more often a manager's job to validate their existence to other mangers via shiny charts with no referent to actual facts, until such time as the project falls apart, at which point they blame the workers and use their social connections (groomed via all those shiny charts) to obtain another meaningless management position.