I kind of want to shoot the stray dogs that run through my yard, but I don't think I want to eat them.

See also: how to lie with statistics. More meaningful, but still not at face value the way you seem to wish, are the intentional homicide rates: 4.8 per 100K in the US, 1.2 per 100K in the UK. You can't take these numbers at face value because homicide is not uniformly distributed in the US. It's strongly correlated with poverty, which in turn is strongly correlated with certain races and neighborhoods. Eliminate those hotspots by addressing poverty, and the US homicide rate is comparable to the UK's. In fact, the US rate for all violent crimes except homicide is already much lower than the UK's.

When it comes to Java, it begins on day one with the standard "Hello, World" teaching people to write a procedural program in the static context before they even understand what an object is. And then they learn about object inheritance. Years later, they read Effective Java and find out their entire CS education was a lie. Meanwhile, they've been churning out utter shit as a contractor in Hong Kong or Bangalore or San Francisco... and every company who's been using their horrible code has been paying dearly for it.

I can see how a military e-reader could be useful. I was an avionics tech in the Marine Corps, and our technical library probably weighed a couple tons. It was absolutely mandatory to have the manual in front of you while working on something, no matter how well you knew the gear. But part of my job was to replace pages in these manuals as changes came down from on high. I doubt there are any standing orders that never change at all. An e-reader that can't be updated would be quickly outdated.

...the bar is pretty fucking low. Incompetence rules the industry; everyone is selling snake oil.

...if other programmers weren't so fucking ignorant.

Exactly. Of course APIs are copyrightable. But this one was perpetually and irrevocably licensed. The only question is whether Google is complying with the terms of the license.

Then take care of it, you worthless fucks.

...where the CEO's idea of the time it takes to develop anything is off by a factor of five, and every developer is also an IT guy and half a dozen other things, how exactly?

They lost me when they called golf a sport.

There's the trouble. Google's disclosure came on a day when nobody believes what they read on the Internet.

Users might be more inclined to support them if they stopped ignoring what users want.

Say it's a personal quest for fame and glory.

The original NES must have raised a generation of cold-blooded killers.

I don't spend money, just all my free time.