"It's only wrong when someone else does it."

I have no idea why I have to say it out loud. Hypocrites don't believe they're hypocrites. Frankly, they don't believe in hypocrisy. What they want, they deserve. What anyone else wants, is either irrelevant (if it doesn't interfere with what they want) or evil (if it does interfere with what they want).

Say what you will about unvarnished greed. At least it's internally consistent.

Hey, it's not HIS fault your cow wasn't spherical enough!

You clearly have no use for or expectations of commit messages at all, if your blanket answer is "look at the diffs".

That tells exactly as much as no commit message at all.

You probably don't comment code, either; I mean, the code's right there, amiright? Or else, your comment is a mindless regurgitation of the code, like "add 1 to pointer".

Complete waste of time, attention, and bytes. Don't insult the intelligence of the community with such brainless drivel. Add some value or don't use the thing at all.

Real nerds don't call it "First Edition."

There was only one edition. Any assertion to the contrary will be vigorously ignored.

Indeed. The highest quality case would be shaped just like a spherical cow. I have so postulated.

PROBLEM SOLVED!

Because for good or ill, almost every nation has signed off on the idea that the form of fantasy property called "copyright" is legitimate property. Show me a Berne Convention equivalent that "legitimizes" bitcoins and its ilk, and you'll have a serious point instead of vague nerd-rage trolling.

"We ordered them to freeze and stop all movement. They kept breathing. They brought their deaths on themselves."

You keep repeating this egregious lie with such enthusiasm I have to assume you're being paid to do it.

At least we know that FTDI has some representation in this discussion, although they're not doing a very good job hiding their interest.

I hope the walls on your gated community are high enough and you pay your private security contractors enough not to steal from you.

Automation is the answer to that problem as well. Security 'bots and sentry guns don't steal. And only rarely attack the wrong people.

They can't get the users without the restricitons.

At least, until the first post-merger unannounced unilateral no-notice change of terms of service.

You do realize that in most real business contexts, that's absolutely no help?

Your ship schedule is your commitment. "Our supplier gave us bad parts" gets you no credit. It's no excuse, and trying to use it like an excuse will get you on the "never let them bid on anything else" list.

If you're a manufacturer, subcontractor and supply chain management is on YOU. Your customer rightly blames YOU for the problem. You, as a manufacturer, buy counterfeit parts, and it's YOUR FAULT.

Fine, good, true, and utterly fucking irrelevant.

The only player in this stupid drama being punished is the only one who had no way of knowing about the counterfeit chip: the consumer.

You probably thought SCO was right to sue Linux users too, amirite?

It's official. Doublespeak is now codified in law.

It's only fair. Law is encoded in Doublespeak.

Weird Al is goin' to jail?