Quite a few US states have outlawed the death penalty. Of those that do allow it, most execute single-digit numbers of prisoners annually. Some don't even tally 1 execution per year. TBH, if the choice is between life in the prison system (30 years? 50, 60?) or a painless death, I'd take door #2. Unfortunately anti-death-penalty advocates have been taking away the "painless" part. It's similar to how the "war on drugs" has actually exacerbated drug-related problems.
Recently, states have had to experiment with untested, and not wholly effective, lethal injection drugs due to the suppliers worrying about death penalty-related PR. That's caused several needlessly painful executions. Perhaps the most completely painless option is nitrogen asphyxiation under heavy sedation - but whenever that gets suggested people come out with "OMG they want to gas prisoners like Nazis!" Never mind the fact Nazis used a completely different gas (Zyklon B) that kills by a very painful mode of action...

No, I think he's implying that coding has gone out of fashion (or at least no longer guarantees a high-paying job.)

There's cocksuckers around? I'm in a dry spell, someone hook me up...

See also the recent massive protests in Germany over the "Islamization of Europe", by a group called Pegida. Turnouts way higher than any of the US police protests recently. If you're not familiar, most European countries are seeing a huge influx of Muslim immigrants, legal and illegal (understandably, I'd want to leave too.)

Of course the anti-Pegida protests had just as big a turnout, but I see that as caused by German guilt about Nazism, wanting to distance themselves from anything that might be construed as intolerant. As the percentage of Muslims in Europe grows, they may feel more emboldened in their attempts to bring Europe under Sharia law. Notice how this latest attack was not a suicide attack, the gunman fled and were loose for a day or so. Perhaps they feel safer when the majority of people in their neighborhood are Muslim.

That's one of the major things I had in mind when thinking about "crap" - also auto-generated pages with zero content but lots of search keywords. Try to find lyrics or tabs of some obscure song on the internet, and you'll get a million pages titled "Rainbow Ffolly - Labour Exchange lyrics", all of them saying something like "We don't have lyrics for this song yet..."

The HOA in my neighborhood hasn't socialized shit. They haven't even built the park that was supposed to be built 10 years ago. The closest thing we have to a park is the drainage ditch behind the neighborhood, which if you bicycle down, you can access both the garbage dump and a state prison. They definitely made sure to clear out all of the trees from the supposed park site to build more houses on, though.

I'm willing to bet an ugly Nativity scene with plywood cut-outs would be there 365 days a year without a peep.

The country has become a mockery of a lot of things, but as for invading NK - were there any incentive to do so - there are at least two countries off the top of my head who would also be sending soldiers: South Korea and Japan.
Now if some unforeseen event happens so that attacking NK would be warranted, you could probably add a couple more Asian countries to the list, plus Australia and the majority of the EU, to the coalition. Hmm, where have I heard that phrase before, "coalition forces"...

Often times, HOA rules will change through committees or votes held at meetings, etc. I imagine there is a clause in most HOA agreements that rules can change through a specific process that you sign off on in the paperwork.

Now, in my experience they also don't notify you of pending changes, so it's still pretty shady. Once while I was biking through my neighborhood on a route I don't usually take, I happened to go by the elementary school. There was a small sign next to the driveway where people drop off their kids about a HOA meeting coming up. I've been in this neighborhood 10 years and that's the only time I've seen such a sign. Maybe they only want people with a child aged 5 - 10 to know about the meetings? (Seems plausible, actually.)

Because they use it as a tool to give an air of scientific legitimacy to otherwise shaky accusations. The truth often isn't their first priority, to say the least.

When were Apple machines serviceable? I bought one in 98 or 99, the only "service" you could do on it was to add in a stick of RAM.

What was that Shakespeare quote, "A piece of crap by any other name..."? I don't need my media player installing auto-starting services that run with elevated privileges. That's a page right out of MS' "run everything as admin" book from 10 years ago. Even if there is a feature that does need admin privileges (haven't heard one yet), those things need to be done as plugins/components that can be disabled so the 80% of users that don't need it don't have to run it. Even just as a music player, iTunes is way behind on feature parity with foobar2000.

I know both 62-year-old grandmothers and 10-year-olds who use Skype regularly (and not just that one pair). Not frequently, but regularly. Hardly ubergeeks, these people can't download pictures from a digital camera. Skype is also making inroads with people who call internationally. They start using Skype for voice because it's cheaper than an international calling plan plus fees, then they end up trying out the video feature since it's right there.

MS has been up and down. Windows from inception through Vista was pretty bad, but 7 isn't bad at all. 8 has that terrible UI, but that can be replaced with less effort than changing window managers in Linux. Hopefully it's something MS will abandon completely as the negative publicity continues.

You're conflating a lot of different people into "we", nobody who understands how Bitcoin works (and certainly not the dude who created it) claimed it was private or untraceable. There are shady people who did try to use that as a selling point, but there's just as many shady people working with dollars or euros.

As for people "losing their shirts", it's clear by this time that BitCoin is too volatile to invest in or even hold on to for more than a few days. It's used as an intermediate currency. A guy in the US buys some BTC with dollars, then makes a transaction in BTC with a Russian. The Russian exchanges BTC to rubles on his end. Or maybe he uses the BTC to buy a Tesla or a computer from Dell or certain other items that are payable in BTC. Either way, the Bitcoins are "cashed out" at some point, and the smart people do it sooner rather than later. I see the lack of legitimate "cash out" options as being one way Bitcoin might die, but that will be a slow process as the cash-out options are distributed among many different nations, exchanges, and companies.