So that theory that most managers are psychos is true?

Well, nobody is scared of the Commie Boogeyman anymore, so we needed an update.

Actually, the Roman inquisition was pretty modern for its days. It was a "mostly" fair trial actually, where you got a defender and where it was based on a written codex of law. Certainly a step ahead from the "God's trial" used earlier.

What you think of is probably the Spanish inquisition. And that had little if anything to do with the inquisition supported and used by the Holy Office. I think I even remember a papal bull condemning that travesty of a trial.

The main difference is probably that fewer people had power back in the good ol' days, and idiots were usually kept from power by their family.

Today, it seems they're sent into politics where they can do less harm to the family business than in some management position.

That's like going to jail for teaching people where to hit their head to pass a phrenology test...

Aren't emulators against Apple's policy? I mean, think about it, if you could download C64 games that are on par or superior to the average 99 cent Apple Store game...

Why bother trying to type up some hodgepodge calculator games when you can download Angry Birds for 99 cents?

I have never been gone.

This is most likely not about airline safety, as you pretty well identified. There is exactly zero increase in security if a person is not allowed to travel by plane.

So what is the reason? That's the thing I don't get. You don't increase safety (the alleged benefit). You don't line anyone's pockets (the usual benefit). Why do it?

A right to travel implies that you may also choose your means of transport. Because, well, why stop at planes? Bar them from trains, busses or using their own car. If we now just break their legs they can have all the right to travel they want to, but can't use it.

It's a bit like getting the right to free speech and having your mouth glued shut. You may speak... if you find a way to. What value is in a right you cannot execute because the means to use it are taken from you?

Go ahead, in only a few years I'll be a martyr of the one true faith!

Besides, I'm hungry anyway.

There is a simple solution for that. And it works.

My dog sure got a lot more docile after the procedure.

I think it's time for a schism. Meatballs should not be part of the faith and they're sinful, and instead we should worship Him in the Only True Way (tm) of the all mighty Carbonara.

Or if you don't "believe" in evolution, see it as God's will to punish the stupid.

You act as if borders and national regulations mean anything to international corporations. If you don't like the laws, restrictions and regulations of country A, your HQ is suddenly in country B and you have to stick to their rules.

Some Caribbean island sure hold a LOT of companies these days, despite their tiny size...