Conservatives who can not wrap their minds around win-win developments in human civilization that defy their expectations of a zero sum game.

Greatly reduced occurrences of data being disassembled as code and vice versa. Or code being disassembled into meaningless rubbish due to wrong starting offset. .EXE is no ELF binary or java class file.

To this day, most humans don't have access to clean water or safety from violence? Are you saying people have stopped working because of police departments and public water fountains? Food and shelter are already available free in US, but some people fail to locate available resources and there is huge overhead in government bureaucracy. Just making them really free without preconditions would just save everyone money.

I wish more companies would do this, and sooner too. Would your ten year old code really be a serious competition to your current efforts? It can however be priceless for learning, or even support for hobbyists who like tinkering with old gadgets.

Lets thank Microsoft for doing the right thing and hope its a sign of good things to come from their new leadership. Apple, Novell and Sun - please take notice.

Would an abundance of goods with no requirement for people to work their butts off making them would be considered a problem. What is wrong with just letting people enjoy fruit of the modern civilization without considering our collective wealth a downside? Plenty of people will still find a way to work in order to afford more exclusive stuff line posh houses, luxury vacations or whatever. Lots more would find something productive to do just out of boredom. For everyone else, we should just encourage responsible birth control in the sense that if you can not even find your own place in society you are not in the position to teach your children to do the same.

If you have your electric car and all the factories and mines involved in its manufacturing connected to solar panels, then any attempt to compare the CO2 as generated by a fossil fueled car is bogus.

If not, a small and efficient gasoline car made from materials that require minimum energy and other pollution to manufacture will most probably be more environmentally friendly overall than a leading electric car. Especially after figuring in pollution other than CO2 and the fact that only a minority of owners will be getting 100% of their battery charge from solar panels.

Unless you support Russia taking over Germany as well, I have no idea what you are trying to say.

No idea about the legal aspects, but given the images that the name brings to mind I think I would pass on its services.

Nope, eating refined sugar by the spoon doesn't have the same effect as eating whole fruit, taking cholesterol pills doesn't have the same effect as eating eggs and apparently eating red yeast doesn't screw your liver. While pills have been tested for less than half a century, natural food has been tested by humans and our primate ancestors for millennia. Most importantly, it's not for FDA to ban and for private companies to patent stuff that people have been eating long before patents or regulations were conceived.

I work on one of the world's most influential computing platforms and I am 40. One of my most respected coworkers is 65 and nearly everyone has grown kids. Age has very little bearing on one's career and respect. I had a great job at 20 and I have a great job now. If you are not getting traction in a particular company or living area, do look around.

(And of course age by itself doesn't guarantee success over younger folks either)

Red rice yeast is as effective as statins at lowering cholesterol, without liver side effects statin pills. Yet FDA bans sale of supplements calibrated to have enough active components.

Pot has helped millions to get measurable relieve from debilitating conditions. Yet federal government still considers it to be highly addictive and without medical value.

Countless food additives have been banned in most of the world outside US and most countries require clear labeling of genetically modified foods? Are our government scientists that much smarter?

FDA review process denies potentially life saving treatments for many years, even to people who are about to die without them anyway.

With this kind of track record, it's no wonder people are suspicious about other things. If a vaccine killed 10% of people compared to statistically saved lives, would YOU trust our government to admit to that?

I don't see why a dealership would rather sell a gasoline car rather than an electric car. They are not a gas station and Tesla is rather expensive, presumably resulting in a larger sales commission. On the other hand, buyers would benefit from having multiple options for returns, resale, repairs and bargin shopping for older models. Also, if Tesla goes belly up, there is still hope of multi-brand dealerships offering at least some continued services.

If all you need is one application, switching OS is not as much of a deal for you or a statement on the underlying platforms than choices of consumers who use at least a dozen of apps. Software development costs are probably a very small part of general Ford R&D costs. If they found a more economical or convenient option, more power to them!

I am actually open to the concept that both wired and wireless internet providers are natural monopolies. Laying cables to EVERY residence is expensive and duplicating the work is wasteful. Wireless spectrum is limited and having it a disposal of a single entity provides a best chance of optimizing use.

HOWEVER, natural monopolies must be heavily regulated. If Comcast wants to be one, it should be no more in charge of creating or providing video programming than your water utility should be in charge of making soda. I highly doubt that's what they want, but that may well be what we need.

Of course, there should be no restrictions on competition that manages to succeed even when natural monopoly is allowed to exist. If someone manages to use power lines or sewer pipes to provide fast internet, or finds it economical to lay their own wires or laser beams after all, more power to them.

Once you allow custom software and especially device drivers to run on a box, it is theoretically impossible to automatically discover what that software is capable of doing. Any workarounds are sleazy in some way. Even basic DRM hides stuff and restricts rights of the legitimate owner of the hardware and software.

In this case, the alternative is no or ineffective VAC and, accordingly, not much fun in multiplayer games. I guess it would be nice if Valve gave users the option to opt out of VAC and play on special open servers or only with specific trusted players.