If that happened to you, YOU would be willing to try homeopathy and pretty much anything else that might work, because you don't have an alternative.

By that logic, we all should rush out and buy penis growth pills/breast enlargement creams, some magnetic beads/bands/clips.

Except that they won't work, they're proven not to work, they will never work. They, and their supporters, intentionally mislead you into thinking they work and parting you from your money. It is the very definition of fraud. There are many incurable, presently unsolvable problems out there, and throwing money down the toilet won't change that.

If you want to try an experimental treatment, that's one thing, but hopefully you do your homework and consult with several experts in the field to understand the treatment, what evidence they have that it may work and possible consequences before you make your decision. But even actual doctors aren't supposed to advertise an unprovable treatment is a cure for a problem that it hasn't been shown to cure.

This is not fully true, there are some differences in which lobbyists are buying which party, and we have some choice in which lobbyists we find least offensive based on what ever we think is most important but in general the actual choice is small.

On social issues, the parties tend to be wildly apart, but that's by design. If we can get people all worked up over silly issues with low incidence of impacting us individually, the people will not notice the real issues which screw the majority of us regularly. I'm mostly looking at all the bullshit social issues {abortion, evolution, legalized drugs (values, not economics, must be careful!), gay marriage, values, etc.}. They're profoundly useful at creating the illusion of polarity, when in fact they're mostly intentional distractions.

Because it's an easier target than guns, which have constitutional protection. It's also far, far cheaper and easier than trying to figure out how we can take sociopaths out of society before they do harm.

I'm not defending this, we should all be able to drive armored trucks if we want. I'm just pointing out the obvious answer for why things are like they are here. We want to blame something: we can't blame the guns, we can't blame the people, clearly it must be the truck's fault.

Blaming inanimate objects for dire consequences has long been the staple of 2 to 3 year old children. Beyond that, we are expected to take responsibility.

If the guy can own a bazooka and ensure that it is not misused, I don't see any reason why he can't own the bazooka. If it IS misused, he is liable for all criminal and civil penalties. I would ask myself how badly I wanted a bazooka, and how much I have to spend on appropriate security for it.

What's the ratio of hammer sales to table saws, 0/0... is 0 the right answer? Infinity? 10?

If I want to know the ratio of black pixels to white pixels for a set of images, and I get an all black image, is 0 the right answer? No, 0 is the wrongest answer.

I think if you don't want to check by div 0, and div 0 is a possibility, you are asking the wrong question.

The EFF has a lot of battles to fight that are more important than letting themselves be bled dry by a Microsoft booby-trap. MS can release it all to the public, for free, and, in writing, sign away their IP portfolio pertaining to mono, and it *may* be worth looking at. Short of that, avoid it like the plague. At best, it'll be another Java, free until someone buys the rights with more dubious intent. At worst, it's a sinkhole.

Civil courts are a rich man's game. If it's worth doing, it's worth re-implementing better, for free. Otherwise just stay the hell away from poison.

But they will need to show that it is TWC's fault, which isn't obvious from the article.

Bacon fat tastes better, for sure, but with a smoke point of about 370F, it's not for everything. Also the taste is not ideal for some things: sauteeing onions with bacon fat for use on a steak or hamburgers works really well, but I don't like the result for say, french onion soup, butter works best. Vegetable oil with a smoke point of 450F is very handy for stir-fry and other high-temp frying activities.

My only point really is using the right tool for the job. Whether or not something is/is not good for you is difficult to establish with too many $ interests to entirely trust the output. Moderation and calorie counting still seems like the sensible approach until someone can definitively establish that something is actually really bad for you, or else you have a medical condition which requires you to eliminate something from your diet.

Read my post again, China IS evil, but we are too. We refuse to cut them off, therefore we enable them to continue to be evil. We should be using our position to force them to become more democratic, enact and enforce environmental and labor protection laws, and generally kick them into the 21st century. Instead we are using them to erode our own laws, undermine our own workforce, and generally let them lead the way to further recidivism.

By your own statement, it does sound like we have laws to protect workers, but they are not enforced aggressively enough. So at some point in our history we decided to protect our workers, and I suspect because of fear of losing their jobs to China, are not complaining to have the law enforced enough. That is exactly my problem, Fuck China, worry about us, worry about their effects on us.

It's not for any one company to be magnanimous, corporations are profit machines they will do anything for profit. Our job as citizens, and our government's job is to put up barriers and make it clear there are some ways they may not make profit. It needs to be applied equally, with sufficient enough punishments that the corporations police each other. After all, if you can hit your competitor with a billion dollar labor lawsuit, you will come out ahead on wall st., right?

I don't see how 12 hour shifts in a factory to attach bevelled screens to an iPhone has any relationship to women in "tech" job (engineering & technical marketing). People in those roles are very well paid and voluntarily put in 24 hour "shifts" when the situation calls for it. The summary seems to be comparing the doctor to the orderly. Every single time "diversity in technology" comes up, someone mischaracterizes it, then someone else draws a parallel to their own hot issue that is more or less orthogonal.

I'm going to say it again: Fuck China, Fuck Chinese Workers, they are not OUR problem. I don't agree with how they live their lives, or how their government fails to protect them, or how they set themselves up for abuse. They should be rioting in the streets, setting fires to buildings, murdering their bosses, overthrowing their corrupt government, whatever it takes. But I have no vote, and no say in their government, and my own country refuses to enact laws that would prohibit american companies (or purveyors of products sold in america) from engaging China on terms that we would tolerate in our own country. Until such time as laws are created and enforced, it is a purely stupid statement to blame Apple, or any other company, for abusing the Chinese workforce. If the law says it is ok, it will be done, those not doing it will lose money and be run out of business.

On an entirely unrelated note of women in technology (R&D/software dev/hardware design/electrical or integration testing), Cook is probably right in that there are things keeping women and minorities out of technology. Those things might be perception based (i.e. not fun, being the one woman for 15 men, etc.), but in my opinion are probably a combination of: elitist hiring practices, unsustainable working hours for family-minded engineers, and to some degree isolation. I can't say how many competent people I've seen turned down for jobs in my life, but it's a large number, they simply weren't the very best. My opinion is that it may be difficult for women and minorities to get through this, as they are likely not raised and surrounded by the community required to produce success. There are a lot of things wrong within the engineering community with respect to hiring practices that are self-defeating. One of them is that by excluding so many qualified people, we implicitly encourage H-1Bs and offshoring, and we implicitly discourage women & minorities from entering the field. We make it worse by being willing to work 12+ hour shifts, leaving the kids homes for our wives or SOs to take care of, for no extra pay and very little equity in the final product.

This is the irritating discussion you have with the people when you try to terminate services, where they argue they are the lower cost option. Not the point. The point is what you get for your dollar, my argument to them is the competitor costs less/bwidth and I choose solely based on bwidth.

Lots of "but but but the value", but once you explain that their other "value-add" services are junk and replaceable with free apps that just need bandwidth, they are reduced to hostility. Google FIber is the lowest $/bwidth option out there, at the moment. If they were more pervasive, then other bandwidth providers could be compelled to increase their bandwidths. Unfortunately it's just not prevalent enough and the monopolies don't have any motivation to upgrade. The better solution is state/muni options where we can vote on our bandwidth, and use that as a forcing function on private companies to upgrade their networks.

Went to reddit and they chased me away with this thing they call "The Motherforker".

Not only not frowned upon, it's actively beneficial to all parties. The "problem" is market based pricing and region lockouts. That actively is socially unacceptable, unfortunately that doesn't really stop the idiots in question.

No, we think Bernie is high. And so is this guy. I'm not sure if they're using the same drug, but the DNC will be a riot.

Then we should burn up the bill of rights, throw out all our environmental regulations and go "full capitalist". We will demolish China, who while strong, could not withstand us (at this moment). We will have kings at the top of the smogheap that rule the world, and those kings may let us work their lands.

Or, we accept that there is a price to our freedom, a price to having nice things, and protect those things to the exclusion of those outside of us. If we have a real need for workers, we let their very best in and we give them green cards, and we do everything we can to encourage them to stay.