This is largely a myth. The Inuit languages are composite, meaning you can build "new" words by combining parts that would be separate words in other languages. So they have base words for snow, slush, drifts, etc just like most languages do. But then they have modifiers for wet, dry, fine, blown, falling, etc that get tacked on to form a new word but the same modifier can be tacked on to other root words just as well. In other words, there's very little difference between the Inuit word for "fine, dry snow blowing in the wind" and the English phrase "fine, dry snow blowing in the wind".

Honest question, not trying to troll: Have the cars you've owned and driven in the past been in the 50-60k price range?

How about people that thing that the law is wrong because limiting caught fish to being above a certain size leads to smaller, more slowly developing fish populations; in effect doing the exact opposite of what the intended purpose of the law is. Ah, but of course, laws aren't thrown out merely for being ineffective.

Only very, very recently. Even 5 years ago the vast majority of peering "agreements" amounted to an engineer from company A calling up an engineer from company B and saying "hey we need a bit more bandwidth, can you swing half the cost of the upgrade" and company B paying half the (really very, very low) costs involved in doing said upgrade. There were very few explicit contracts involved because everyone realized that it was in their best interests to not saturate the links. Now we have ISPs demanding millions to install a few thousand dollars worth of equipment because some executive decided there was money to be made on both ends of the pipe.

Decent VOIP software will detect that the line has jitter, calculate the maximum amount, and buffer accordingly, effectively increasing the latency time to ping + jitter. 100ms of jitter + 100ms of ping should produce a more usable connection than 500 ms of ping; there's absolutely no reason that it can't.

Jitter doesn't really matter for video or voice either, other than increasing the buffer time. Think about it this way, Netflix doesn't care if you get 10s of video as a single burst, as long as it can occur at least once every ten seconds. The information can be buffered and played back smoothly. Now obviously you can take that to an extreme where VOIP or video conferencing is unusable but jitter that significant is hardly common.

Do they care enough? Well that depends. Does it take a court order (with a required quarterly refresh), 200 man hours to set up, and 20 per month to maintain? Or does it take 2 phone calls and an entry in a database? If the former, yeah printable firearms almost certainly isn't high enough on anyone's radar. If the later, I absolutely believe they would come down hard on "minor annoyance" situations such as this. I suspect the real answer is somewhere in the middle.

Theft is inherently violent, taken to an extreme it deprives others of shelter, healthcare, food, etc. Whether copyright infringement is theft or not is a different argument. On the one had, "the artist lost nothing" rings hollow to me. On the other, it's patently obvious that you can't just claim they "lost a sale" either.

I know I turned gay when I heard Tim Cook came out! Wait... that's not how human sexuality works.

No, but if there's a conversation going on about said "good thing" it is a little unreasonable for people to jump in the middle of it to shout "Yeah but he did this bad thing 15 years ago!". Yes, Gates did bad stuff. There are plenty of articles on Slashdot about the bad stuff that he's done (and that his legacy continues to contribute to). This isn't one of those articles. Couldn't we just take a minute to say "Mr Gates is doing something worthwhile with his money".

Because then you'd get charged with destruction or tampering of evidence.

I agree, why should Cogent need to supply all this throughput that Comcast's paying customers are asking for!? Waaaaaiit a minute....

Engineer - "Hey Boss, we need some cash to upgrade the connection to these networks."
Boss - "What?! We just upgraded those connections a couple years ago"
Engineer - *rolls eyes* "Well the link is saturated, looks like lots of people watching online video... Netflix comes in over this connection so it makes sense"
Boss - "First they take our subscribers now they're forcing us to upgrade our equipment... well fuck em!"
Engineer - "Waaah?"
Boss - "You heard me, fuck em!"
Engineer - "But... our customers will get terrible service when they try to watch Netflix, or do anything else on that network for that matter"
Boss - "Exactly!"

You can make crap like this illegal, in fact it arguably already is without net neutrality legislation.

Unfortunately lots of people. Some of them young gay people facing harassment, others are the ones doing the harassing. When it comes to certain sub-subjects (such as legally recognized marriage), only a very narrow majority "don't care" and we only crossed that threshold very recently.

So yes it's great that an anonymous "who cares" gets modded up on Slashdot, I think it says good things about our community. But at the same time it's a bit of patting ourselves on the back about how forward thinking and accepting we all are.