IMHO anyone who wants to "blame" something that has no will of its own for the acts committed by something that does should not be included in the conversation.

"Idiot submitters ... are turning Slashdot into a anti-Microsoft tabloid rather than any place for serious discussion."

Hello there, and welcome to Slashdot!

The USPS's primary role these days seems to be cramming my mailbox with unsolicited and unwanted advertisements, and providing landfills with a limitless supply of dead trees.

Remind me again why we're still spending $billions to keep this going?

It's been 60 years since institutional racism was (supposedly) outlawed. What made it OK again for a government entity to establish that certain races are inherently inferior to others?

Since I have a decidedly white perspective on this issue, I'd be interested to get a different take on how governments are subscribing to this notion that minorities cannot compete on an even playing field. I'm more interested in understanding why people in these demographics aren't mad as hell at what these policies insinuate.

ALSA.

That's a meaningless point when the "average user" doesn't know which distros are meant for him/her.

Your defensive impulse sounds a lot like "You're holding the phone wrong."

I'm not making any claims about their overall reliability. Just sharing my own positive experience with them.

"Our societies are now based on rampant consumerism and the freedom of the individual to do whatever they want, so long as it's not illegal and they can pay for it."

The majority of the people on Earth already live under repressive governments with horrendous environmental protection laws in place (if any). Your "solution" is to further restrict individual freedom. I think your idea needs some work.

For what my anecdotal account is worth, I'm completely satisfied with my CFLs. I've had nothing but CFLs in my house since about '04 and have only had to replace a half-dozen or so.

The energy savings justified the cost of the switch from incandescent bulbs to CFLs. Going from CFLs to LEDs, it isn't even close.

I imagine there will be plenty of people who read this and regard it as a "Good Idea". That's how a "movement" starts.

Or as I call it, "Saturday".

Such as? I didn't read anything in the article that would suggest any such thing was crossing state lines.

"No, this is regulating the shipment of potentially biohazardous material across state lines."

A curious theory considering nothing in the article mentioned transporting stem cells across state lines.

I've come a long way from the anti-tax Republican I used to be, but come on buddy, you aren't doing ANYTHING to dispel the "tax-every-problem-away-Democrat" cliche.

"But his is likely a case of a composer wanting to distance themselves from the politician who likes their music. That's not exactly a new phenomena by any stretch of the imagination."

Indeed, abusing the court system is as central to record labels' day-to-day business as is producing music.