But why not:
a hat off,
a twist off,
or another kind of off?

Because I don't pick fights that I can't win.

We should fence off the US and go to sleep for 50 years while China and India have a space race!

RoHS/Lead-free has already baked obsolescence into your consumer electronics. Tin-whiskers plus the difficulty in services devices with lead-free solder, not that VLSI really makes it practical to take your gizmos to the repair shop anymore.

but what if I want to put my smartphone in the paper-shredder when I'm done with it? [when Apple releases a new model]

I don't agree that you can build .ko's with g++

And yes, I'm a chip vendor. Anything I do is automatically blessed by myself.

Russia would like for us to continue gifting them with cash for 40-year-old missle motors, it's our own government that doesn't want them any longer. For good reason. That did not cause SpaceX to enter the competitive process, they want the U.S. military as a customer. But it probably did make it go faster.

Also, ULA is flying 1960 technology, stuff that Mercury astronauts used, and only recently came up with concept drawings for something new due to competitive pressure from SpaceX. So, I am sure that folks within the Air Force wished for a better vendor but had no choice.

I mostly chose responses where I could cower in the corner. Because I was worried that personality type was not well represented in people who would actually finish the survey. Pity the results aren't tabulated, but now it makes more sense now that you bring up it being Socratic questioning.

I'm an Android BSP developer, and I don't know what the hell you're talking about.

Easy for you to say, but tough for you to prove or defend.

Unless you've mastered C++, all you will accomplish is writing lots of difficult bugs. Really only gurus should be working on C++ projects. If I can't find enough gurus, then I would pick a different language for the project. (I worked on C projects most of my career because I'm not a C++ guru)

I assume powerful lobbyists will want to corporations to continue to profit. A handful of law firms in the business of litigation is hopefully not a powerful lobby compared to hundreds of billion dollar technology companies.

This ends a situation in which two companies that would otherwise have been competitive bidders decided that it would cost them less to be a monopoly, and created their own cartel. Since they were a sole provider, they persuaded the government to pay them a Billion dollars a year simply so that they would retain the capability to manufacture rockets to government requirements.

Yes, there will be at least that Billion in savings and SpaceX so far seems more than competitive with the prices United Launch Alliance was charging. There will be other bidders eventually, as well.

The patent trolls need to win until corporations break, only then will real change in patent laws occur in the legislature.

off-topic, but the site referred to in your sig has lots of buggy HTML that makes it impossible to accurately complete the extremely biased survey:

The main issue I have is several groups of unrelated radio buttons were marked as "x"
<INPUT NAME="x" TYPE=Radio>