Here I thought I was fairly late to the party.

I don't think the word, "coercion" means what you think it means. Are you really in a position to force Intel to do anything? Really?

s/no thinking required/thinking actively discouraged/

Actually, this could be pretty significant if it takes some clever machine rather than a host of gigantic centrifuges to do the job.

You do realize that OP was referring to MySQL, do you not?

I suspect similar arguments were made for having gears shift without manual intervention, but people got use to the situation so thoroughly that only in niche markets is it even possible to sell a second-hand car with a manual transmission.

You must have been stoned to come up with that. Shale on you!

will never replace rule of law.

And of course, John Woo. Let's hear it for two-fisting, slow motion and doves!

I don't know. What makes him so good?

The actual article is about an enzyme. The chemical transformation still requires energy, just as charging a battery does.

You will, of course, be demanding accountability in military spending that's equal to what scientist using public funds have now, right? How about starting with the total decommissioning of our nuclear weapons? We spend about 8 billion dollars on each nuclear submarine. Has anyone been asked to present a post-Cold War case for ever having one of those?

When you frame something as "demonizing," you're implying that the characterization of demonic behavior is not accurate.

Given the actual track record of corporations since the beginning of the East India Company, your implication is false on its face.

If you've experienced Oracle's "24/7/365 top-notch support," as you phrase it, you know there are certain problems it will not help you with. For example, there are known bugs, some of which cause what in Oracle jargon are called "600 errors," which means, "you're screwed, and you've lost data irretrievably." These bugs have remained unfixed for years, and no matter what kind of support you buy from Oracle, they will not fix them. Their green-eyeshade people have decreed that the cost of fixing them is not worth it.

Better pro tip: always use your SQL engine's parameterization rather than rely on "sanitizing" such inputs. Your engine's parameterizer is extremely well tested, even if it's an engine with relatively sloppy coding practices. Your "sanitizing" script can never be tested quite as well.