I bet other civilizations failed to travel outside their star system because they devoted all their energy to trying to solve the Fermi Paradox.

Yes it is a form of "soft" censorship. So be it. We have to sacrifice some ideals to avoid living in a corporate waste-land. Tradeoffs tradeoffs.

You are free to tune out and make all that money worthless and put the people you want on the ballot.

What "works" for you or me doesn't necessarily scale to the rest of voters.

Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Read it.

The right to travel does not give you express rights to get wherever you want but any means you want. It gives you express rights not to be locked in one place. Of note is that this declaration was written before commercial air travel became anything remotely possible for average people. So are you going to pretend that at the time people weren't willing to spend months on end getting somewhere by boat?

So my answer is no, if the USA banned ALL airplanes then your right to travel still hasn't been prohibited.

That's what they get for using double underscores in function names.

Horseshit, Try running XP with SP3 on a computer which had the minimum hardware requirements for XP 6 years earlier. I won't even describe it for you. It is something that needs to be experienced and you will be met with plenty of personal reflection time as you do.

Oh you mean like they already did by pulling these core components out of Android and into the Play Store so they could update them on the run as they went? You know the thing they have been doing progressively since version 2.3 and which they have announced effectively completed in version 5.0? That little thing? The thing which people then COMPLAIN about because evil Google is now putting core open source components into the Play Store and "removing openness" or some shit like that?

Yeah all these Google complains are getting stale.

Paul Graham partially credits Lisp for making him rich via his store-site start-up, despite having viable competitors. The company that bought him out eventually converted it to a more conventional language stack for day-to-day maintenance.

Well that may be true for your small bubble, but there are plenty of countries which outlaw laser pointers and chemistry sets, and by your own admission in your country chemistry sets now only include a subset of the chemicals they did previously due to liability. So how much of that was really a "lie"?

The next probe will be Zombie 2.

Not at all. They'll move to a rapid release schedule. There will be discrete episodes.
Episode 1 will be the removal of previous measures.
Episode 2 will be an announcement that the end of all problems is coming soon.
Then they'll spend 6 years promising episode 3 is coming soon.

The best "lone wolf" developers probably use something like Lisp and a high amount of math-like abstraction to crank out vast amounts of features in a short time.

However, a good team programmer knows how OTHER typical programmers think and read code, and writes code that is easy for them to navigate, digest, and change. Team programming is more like authoring a good technical manual, not clever gee-whiz tricks.

Indeed. My theory is that many of those mysterious gamma-ray bursts are civilizations earning a Galactic Darwin award.

"Hey look, we can create mini anti-black-holes in our la ~ ^ & [NO CARRIER]

SVG and WebGL with Javascript.

I care. The death of Flash will be celebrated by many. Once YouTube stops using it there will be no reason to even install it any more. No more annoying updates, no more vulnerabilities.

Agreed. I keep my precious rare earth magnets in a safety deposit box, wouldn't want anything to happen to them.

I thought this was a news site.