If development took only a few more years, we wouldn't have paper money to counterfeit.

No, kernel developer.

Like programming, I try to address on issue at a time instead of writing one giant spaghetti function that does it all.

We would have to legalize the blood sport known as the Autoduel.

But why not:
a hat off,
a twist off,
or another kind of off?

Because I don't pick fights that I can't win.

We should fence off the US and go to sleep for 50 years while China and India have a space race!

RoHS/Lead-free has already baked obsolescence into your consumer electronics. Tin-whiskers plus the difficulty in services devices with lead-free solder, not that VLSI really makes it practical to take your gizmos to the repair shop anymore.

but what if I want to put my smartphone in the paper-shredder when I'm done with it? [when Apple releases a new model]

I don't agree that you can build .ko's with g++

And yes, I'm a chip vendor. Anything I do is automatically blessed by myself.

I mostly chose responses where I could cower in the corner. Because I was worried that personality type was not well represented in people who would actually finish the survey. Pity the results aren't tabulated, but now it makes more sense now that you bring up it being Socratic questioning.

I'm an Android BSP developer, and I don't know what the hell you're talking about.

Easy for you to say, but tough for you to prove or defend.

Unless you've mastered C++, all you will accomplish is writing lots of difficult bugs. Really only gurus should be working on C++ projects. If I can't find enough gurus, then I would pick a different language for the project. (I worked on C projects most of my career because I'm not a C++ guru)

I assume powerful lobbyists will want to corporations to continue to profit. A handful of law firms in the business of litigation is hopefully not a powerful lobby compared to hundreds of billion dollar technology companies.

The patent trolls need to win until corporations break, only then will real change in patent laws occur in the legislature.