What about an IDE for formulating normal scripts that mere mortals can even remember?

I don't see what the objection to an IDE is. If I'm writing anything more than the simplest script, I find it helpful to have some kind of debugging tools.

It's not really fair to say that Powershell is, "a kludged attempt to bring CMD.exe to something closer to bash.... 20 years later." You can argue that it's kludged (I don't think it really is) or that it's late to the game (it is), but it's not really like Bash. Bash treats everything like text, whereas Powershell treats everything as an object. Bash relies on a lot of stand-alone applications being chained together, whereas Powershell tends to have more built-in functionality which is supplemented by various extensions.

Whether you like those differences or not is a different issue, I suppose, but it's not like Bash. It's not even trying to be like Bash.

All-party consent (rather than one-party consent) for recording has always been a stupid fucking brain-dead policy, but the proliferation of cameras means we ought to be making getting those laws repealed a high priority.

For US President, sure. For state and local elections, there often actually isn't a third-party candidate at all (at least in my area).

Let's be honest here: the biggest risk to you is that they beat you to death and then concoct some bullshit to justify it after-the-fact.

That said, if you let that scare you so that you "COMPLY", then you've let the totalitarians win.

Correct.

Also, regardless of consent laws, public servants engaged in their public duties in a public place have no legal right to privacy under those circumstances.

Maybe because laws aren't the issue, police department policies (that we don't get to vote for) are. For example, the policy of refusing to hire people who score "too high" on aptitude tests, as evidenced by Jordan v New London. That's just the part of the iceburg we can see.

You already won't read when knowledge is given to you. You are incompetent and couldn't understand them anyway.

Clearly you've not done much UNIX shell scripting, if you've not been bitten by the issues with having to escape strings multiple times.

The cost of LEDs is dropping rapidly, and the lifetime costs are already lower than Incandescent. At this point saying they cost "10x more" is no longer factual.

Livestock production, including the animals themselves, ARE a significant portion of human gas emissions and environmental impact, both methane and CO2. Livestock responsible for roughly 10-14% of our CO2 emissions, 35% of our methane, and 65% of the nitrous oxide. In addition they require tremendous amounts of land area and resources. In areas such as the plains, that land is already well adapted to grazers like cows. But of course, that isn't the only place we raise them. We force land into being productive, by siphoning water, by cutting down forests, and other geoengineering methods. Each pound of beef you eat took 500 gallons of water produce. The amount of food provided to cattle alone in this country could feed 800 million people. It takes more than 4 lbs of feed to make a pound of beat. Not to mention changes in water quality and riverbeds from changes in erosion patterns, and the ripple effect that has every critter along the way. And this isnt even touching pigs (even higher methane production) or chickens. (Oblig XKCD)

It's not about seeking power over you. We don't care about you. It has a little more to do with caring about the survival of the species as a whole. Humans aren't very tolerant of higher CO2 concentrations, or higher temperatures. We are still very dependent on the natural world, even if we have rudimentary methods of harnessing it to feed ourselves. And if nature collapses, so do we. But reducing our impact on the planet doesn't require reverting to the stoneage. Civilization can survive just fine. Nor does it require forcing behavior. A tremendous amount of change has already occurred and will continue to occur through simple market forces, as not everyone is as obstinate or blind as you. "OH I have to give up burning dead dinos to drive from my mcmansion to work".... cry me a river. All the free energy humanity could ever want lands on the planet's surface every hour. Transitioning from burning oil to harnessing just a fraction of the sun's power is only a burden if your paycheck depends on the oil industry.

Of course, the first article talks about the first time the Mauna Loa location hit 400ppm, while the article, as specifically pointed out in the Slashdot summary is about the global average hitting 400ppm.

Why don't you go fuck off and shut up until you've learned to read?

A hard dependency on glibc is bad practice, it prevents your software from using any of the other libcs out there.

Then here I pretend to explain the problems with systemd. Enjoy.