I don't know what system they're using in Singapore (or whether perhaps your inability to tune particular channels is just an issue of signal strength), but digital TV in general is not some conspiracy to control information.

Anyone with the right equipment can transmit a digital TV signal, and anyone with a TV and an antenna can receive it. Just like analog.

It'll probably turn out that, with no evidence the government has stolen *your* data specifically, you have no legal standing.

These episodes were recovered in 1991.

You seem to be concluding that we shouldn't lecture about personal responsibility because that won't give him another chance.

Calling it luck or saying "we could all die at some point" isn't going to give him another chance either, so I don't see how your conclusion follows from your premise.

On a laptop or tablet, one watt is a lot of power to waste. But of course it looks small when you compare it to an irrelevant but very energy-intensive task and add some anti-Microsoft flamebait.

There's a big difference between watching TV shows for free, and fraudulently claiming someone else's work as your own.

I don't see what the point of this claim about the "most outdated cellphone" was. Even among new phones, there are models without touchscreens or wifi, and if you start considering outdated technology at all then your claim becomes even more inaccurate.

All the options from the previous poll should also be on this poll.

And people say the free market leads to efficient allocation of resources...

A site is increasing their search engine ranking by... producing meaningful content that people want to link to? I don't see what the problem is here.

RTFS. He's not claiming that there's an almost perfect spam filter being suppressed by a conspiracy.

He's making the very plausible claim that spam filters naturally err on the side of false positives, to the detriment of the users, because false positives are a less visible problem than false negatives.

It's ok to blacklist email received from open proxies. It's not ok to block legitimate email for just *mentioning* them.