Serving me ads when I don't have my phone out of my pocket, so Google can make more money.

Stupidity and fear.

Everyone has been spying on everyone else in every imaginable way (and some unimaginable ways) since time immemorial. Only the fundamentally naive and those who didn't, and still don't, care thought/think no one was/is spying. Nothing has changed and the world hasn't ended ... but several pseudo-journalists make a decent living fanning the flames of paranoia amongst the conspiracy theorists.

I'd like to put Chevy parts in my BMW, but it's neither Chevy's nor BMW's problem, it's a problem with me feeling self-entitled to have things "my" way regardless the realities of life.

An imbecile makes threats specifically against his ex-wife and local police, then tries to hide behind "freedom of speech" after they took his intimidating and threatening rants (calling them rap lyrics is being way too generous) seriously. I guess he thought this was golf and he'd get a mulligan.

I didn't know Kim Dotcom could fly. Float, maybe.

Besides being the subject of a lot of clickbait, exactly what has he accomplished?

Because then he becomes even more irrelevant than he already is.

Everything is a boring clone of some other game. so lacking the ability to raise capital through the usual investment channels this one has decided to fleece the kickstarter crowd.

Any decision he disagrees with is a) any document or rule he disagrees with is toxic, b) any decision he disagrees with is misguided, and c) he's taking his ball and going home.

Recognizing the value of an asset (e.g. stocks, bonds, paintings, sculptures and etc.) doesn't confer legitimacy as a currency.

There is no democratic process in international treaties and agreements and only a naive person would suggest there was. In international trade, as in any business agreement or contract negotiation, both parties are out to get as much from the other side in the agreement as they can while giving up as little as possible. And as negotiations proceed it's common for things to be included in the bargaining that the proposer has no intention of actually giving away or accepting ... it's just part of the negotiations. Open the negotiations up publicly and no deal would ever be reached because neither side would be allowed to compromise.

the press is too busy pretending to be a news organization to impersonate a government organization.

It doesn't matter what you call it ... declining or dilution ... the end result is fewer women in CS career fields than men. The effect is less a less robust CS field and the resulting negatives that come along with a technology field operating with blinders.

I love when someone writes drivel assuming what they think is what everyone needs or wants.