Wow. And God ALREADY knew it was evil for the people to be naked all that time and just let them do it. Does that make God evil?

I don't think you understand how it works. Look at Dwayne Ferguson -- Black, anti-gun activist who helped push the SAFE act onto New Yorkers carried a gun until he was caught carrying into a public school and pretended he didn't know he had it on him.

In the minds of these people are special exceptions for themselves.

We can only hope... so long as they don't work to get rid of the internet for all on that basis.

The fruit of knowledge. There was a reason the bible described things as it did. Knowledge isn't just the anti-christ, it's the anti-god.

I really and truly respect that.

I have had more than enough experience in dealing with "this is how I do it!" developers. We're talking about writing code -- a set of instructions to accomplish things usually performed by an electronic machine. Things definitely become complex and even confusing at times, but it's NOT MAGIC. And when people need to work with developers and developers with developers and all that, I have run short on patience where some developers believe they are the thing and not the project or the community affected by the project.

To me, the community which uses the project or is affected by the project is the thing. If you write for results, then you agree. If you write to make yourself proud? You're just a bit too self-absorbed. (I'm not saying there's anything wrong with being happy and proud of your work, but what you want should never be the thing.)

I just wish Linus would go kick some GNOME team ass and share some wisdom with GIMP developers as well.

In order to wake up to sun light, a variety of factors must coincide, but chief among them is sleeping a little later instead of waking up at 5am to get ready for work and sitting in traffic for a long time just so you can sit in an office with unhealthy lighting by sunrise.

No. Not all people act like this. Many people have a sense of it being wrong to do things to other people that which you would not want done to yourself. For example, as much as I might want to punch someone in the face, I don't mostly because I know it would hurt them and also, I wouldn't want them to hit me back. That's a fairly common understanding for most people. Psychopaths don't quite get that. Instead, they tend to feel like everyone else is an object for manipulation and the only real person is himself.

That is a bit of an over-simplification, but perhaps it makes the point more clear.

But once again, typical people understand it's wrong to violate privacy and personal space of other people.

I will open my door to these advertisers if they will give me the keys and alarm codes to their homes and promise not to prosecute me if I misbehave.

Sounds fair to me.

After all, that's what these people are asking from everyone else. It takes a real psychopath to want to do to other people what they would never want done to them.

These gadgets seem to fall into two categories:

1. A problem looking for a solution
2. A solution looking for a problem

One has a future and some value while the other does not.

(This comment is best read in the voice of Agent Smith.)