Let's say that Ikea did license the logo to them, what control they have if the site decides to start posting derogatory things about Ikea? No, Ikea CANNOT trust the good will of the site. They have to get them to un-brand, or shut them down. It would be stupid to handle this any other way.

After several false starts during which she repeatedly and noisily attempts to clear her throat, Ms. Elk spends most of the interview circuitously leading up to the "theory of dinosaurs by Anne Elk bracket Miss brackets", making assertions like "My theory, which belongs to me, is mine." It turns out that in the end Miss Elk's new theory on brontosauruses is rather shallow: "All brontosauruses are thin at one end, much, much thicker in the middle, and then thin again at the far end." Her true concern is that she receive full credit for devising this new theory: "That is the theory that I have, and which is mine, and what it is too."

A lovely rant, but you miss a very important point. Most obese people are depressed. They don't show it because their dopamine is so high from all the food they eat. Try to tell an obese person to NOT eat something. You will get a reaction similar to a starving dog protecting a scrap of meat. The old adage about eating a pint of ice cream because you were depressed? Yep, that's true. No amount of brow beating can force an obese person to diet unless you fix the underlying mental disorder. Wellbutrin is one of the few anti-depressants that shows a marked LOSS of weight in users. That's because it helps regulate your dopamine. Smokers lose weight. Why? Nicotine helps increase your dopamine. So why not just subscribe Wellbutrin to all the obese people? That's the rub. Most would take the drugs AND keep eating because dopamine is a rush. It would only make things worse in the long run. If you are person who can easily turn away from food, then you are not depressed.

So obesity has to be treated on multiple fronts. Education so the patient understands that there is a mental/physical component that must be fixed, i.e. the depression. That eating is NOT the solution, and that the feeling of well being can be acquired from other means. Richard Simmons, for all his silliness, was one of the few to really get this. His program worked because it made people feel better about their lives in general, and then try to slowly lose some weight. Dieting alone does not do it. As soon as you are feeling depressed, that pint of ice cream will be too tempting.

You seem to be under the delusion that every device must be directly routable. That's all this IPv6 hubbub is about, routability. It has nothing to do with having machines/services/ports available on the internet. And there is no reason for anything except routers and major servers to be routable.

When speed limits are designed to be 10MPH lower than what people are expected to drive, then yes. The law makers assume that people will cheat by that much, and set the limits artificially low.

You were great until that line. "Safety" is purely a PR term. They are protecting corporate interests, not individual's safety.

The corporations can easily outspend this PAC with a small increase. On top of that, they are trying to buy corrupt politicians, who are just as likely to turn again when someone offers them better coke and prostitutes. I smell a get rich scheme, nothing more.

Except that riches come by taking from everyone else, including the poor. Rich is only relative and it is only when the disparity between the rich and poor is so absurdly large that it can only harm society in general. That is where we are now. The rich would need to donate 90% of their opulence to the public good in order to get the US back on its feet, and that ain't happening any time soon. Think of a spider sucking its prey dry.

Maybe you understand now that this is NOT a tech site.

Arrogant American's seem to think they are immune to this, because it's what happens to OTHER countries. The Mexican Peso was devalued directly into the pockets of Wall Street traders a few decades back. And the same way, as soon as the US Dollar is vulnerable, it is going to be a feeding frenzy, and Americans will end up lining up for toilet paper. "Told you so" feels kind of hollow in a situation like that.

If they are lucky. We need to get over the myth of the "blood relative."

Damn, everyone and his brother should accuse their worse enemy. $10,000 is $10,000. Oh wait, no one is actually going to prosecuted and this is all just a mind fuck? Say it isn't so.

Until two days later when they went back to hating each other again but twice as bad. MDMA can give you some short term breakthroughs in communication, but the side effects are counter productive. The experiments were far from "highly effective." Now if we can just get a drug that ratchets up serotonin production without the re-uptake "hacks" like Prozac or short term "dumps" like MDMA we would have something.

Do you see the problem then? Your perception is WRONG. That is the problem. I'm not saying to are a bad person, or even ignorant. It's just that the geek work view is hard to see outside of. Perception is reality. If you do not want to come across as a misogynist bastard, then you have to change. If you don't care how you come across, because that's "not how you meant it," then you are one of the problems.

So 18 perl scripts to run the entire site. Sounds about right. What's the rest of that code for?