You answered your own question.

They go through the different versions until they reach the one that convinces their target audience, and as a last resort fall back on economic reality.

And of course it's dishonest.

Patent application:

<insert well-known invention here> made of graphene!

$640 000 should be enough for anyone.

A large number of people off-topic are still off-topic.

When the rest of the planet tells Americans that they are arrogant, this is exactly the sort of thing we're talking about.

...eventually, but children do not start out that way.

Hypocrisy is contradictory by definition. The double standard offends people.

It's not hypocritical to admit to a poor judgment and cautioning others about making the same mistake.

Of course, the advice itself isn't necessarily bad just because it's hypocritical.

Most hypocrites do not realize that everyone else considers hypocrisy a bad thing.

There are a few, and researchers and historians would like to have them on computer.

The FCC is there to regulate *consumer*, not industry.

Regulating pick-ups at the airport at least makes a kind of sense, as the airport has the authority to regulate commerce occurring on its property. Whether the fees involved are justified is of course a separate question.

But if you've hired someone to take you *to* the airport, once you're on the airport property it's a little late for the airport to do anything about it.

Build and pay for your own road and you can drive on it all you want.

Let's start with one language suited to web programming, and see how it goes. You never know until you try.

Is pure evil better or worse than the other party (which I assume is impure evil)?

Presumably 18th and 19th.

As if there were two parties.