I could probably guess the message, but I doubt the language would be as colorful :)

In the US it is not legal to advertise one price and then charge another higher price at the cash register. I'm not interested enough to look it up but I believe it runs afoul of false advertising laws.

I have gotten the sale price on physical items after the sale is over because some clerk screwed up and forgot to change the price in the aisle. There was no ambiguity at the register once I pointed it out.

If the program to spy on American citizens without a warrant is perfectly legal, then why is is it so super-secret? Why is Edward Snowden in so much trouble? Why did James Clapper feel the need to lie under oath to Congress? Why am I asking so many rhetorical questions?

Well they had all weekend to work on it. I was wondering whether they would go with a Clintoneque "I smoked pot, but didn't inhale" or with a Rob Ford inspired "Hell yeah I smoked crack! Hooker I was with told me it was heroin. Either way I was too drunk to care."*

"Climate change is the biggest issue for us to face this century. It's man made. The science is done. It's complete. It's a matter of political understanding." - Sir David King, UK Government's Chief Scientist, giving evidence to House of Lords select committee (March 2004)

I'm not arguing with you, I'm on your side. Just pointing out that not all scientists have the intellectual honesty we expect.

It was supposed to help. It turns out writing reusable software is very hard to do. Though OOP is only one technology that has promised more than it can deliver.

I remember when I first learned about COM in the mid 80's, and how revolutionary it would be. You just plug software components together like breadboarding a hardware circuit. I thought to myself "Great! I can just unplug the editor in my IDE, plug in a Emacs component and I'll be good to go."

Seems like we should be able to do that, doesn't it? Needless to say, it's near the end of 2013 and we are nowhere close to having that functionality for either the developer or user. Ah, well.

Laws tend to favor large corporations and will continue to do so as long as big money dominates our elections. The trend, particularly since Citizens United, is for corporations to have even more influence on legislation. I'm not saying that's a good thing, just that that is the direction this country is headed.

The solution to world peace is simple - no one likes war, so all we need to do is get everyone to agree not to fight one another. Problem solved.

It's the best we can do. We're engineers, not omnipotent beings.

In my experience kids tend to do the opposite of what you tell them to do. All I see happening if this plan is implemented is that it becomes incredibly cool to pirate music and videos.

Too complicated to learn, english language is.

"Nothing is missing. I have some money and a cup to piss in. That is sufficient for my needs."