Anti-vaxxers aren't anti-vaxxers because they have genes for stupidity. I know a sysadmin who's an anti-vaxxer. They're anti-vaxxers because no one ever bothered to teach them how to evaluate claims critically.

Wow, quite the humanist, aren't you? Never mind how good a person this might be, how much contribution he might make to the world, or how many people care about him. He's "poor stock", get rid of him.

Yes, because contagious diseases preferentially kill stupid people. Oh, wait...

ITYM:

Verizon recently disabled FTP access for those foolish enough to use its proprietary service to build their personal websites.

Help China? They can suck my dick.

Oh wait...

Safety that requires groping grandmas is not worth having, even if it really is safety.

That's because it's not democracy. It's theoretically-representative democracy. They do represent their base, of course, for large-corporate-donors values of "base".

The U.S. government actually criticized itself in public? Invest in ice skates now, Lucifer will be buying millions of them.

Really? I haven't been getting those at all. Some plugin I installed and forgot about, maybe.

Scareware? Antivirus? Oh yeah, I remember now! That stuff Windows users have to worry about.

On the other hand, the smart user will unplug the toaster whenever possible before reaching into it, thus ensuring personal safety even if the manufacturer screwed up. Not sure what the analogous safe practice would be with AWS, aside from RTFM and generally being cautious.

They seem to be confusing the GPL with the BSD license or the public domain. If they ignore the GPL, nothing else lets them use the GPL-licensed code, so they have to take it out. Schnell!

Well, Monchanger, you said: "If a team of highly decorated SEALs who devoted their lives to serving the nation confirm the report, it's the truth." Implying, you trust what government employees say, at least if they're SEALs. So Grishnakh drew the obvious corollary: The CIA said Saddam had WMDs. We have since seen that he did not. Government employees don't always tell the truth. This isn't trolling, it's making a good argument.

Doesn't necessarily follow. I daresay many Iraqis, Afghans, and Syrians are keenly interested in who will be the next president and that person's foreign policy. And of course, many investors around the world too.

Feeding the fish?