Those of us who use it for things connected to our real lives?

And as soon as I hit submit I remember that the army was segregated. Disregard me. I should not post before sunrise.

Checks and balances are federal, and there was no federal segregation. Moreover, the federal constitution was still in the process of being extended to apply to the states in the early 20th. It originally did not apply to the states at all.

TLDR: It wasn't unconstitutional at all until the USSC agreed that the new amendments made it unconstitutional.

Hilariously false. Dead trees last, at most, decades, and that's only if they're not used much. Under frequent use they last a few years max. My e-reader on the other hand, under almost daily use in sometimes rather adverse conditions (I've lugged it up mountains in Thailand, down the Mekong, across open ocean in an outrigger canoe, etc), has lasted four years in perfect functioning order. Dead trees would never have survived the abuse I've put my kindle through. The battery doesn't last as long as it used to (I used to be able to read seven to eight novels on a single charge, now I get about one or two novels), but it's long enough to still not matter much.

That some people don't know how to handle electronics is not the electronics fault.

I've read it. Probably five or six times. It's a brilliantly written, well-paced narrative that so trounced the genre conventions of its day that it invented a genre that still exists.

AND I HATE EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER IN IT.

From page one, I want them all to just die in a fire. Every one of those pathetic, entitled, spoiled snobs is a waste of time and oxygen.

I do have to admit though that I only have this reaction because it is so brilliantly written. It has to be for you to hate the characters like they were real.

Don't feed the trolls.

He was very specific already. Anyone who didn't understand didn't read it in the first place. They just fabricated a rationalization for their own assholery.

As an ECONOMIST, Marx's analysis is largely faultless. His basic analysis of what we today call the business cycle is sound. He was correct about the problem of positive feedback loops in the boom and bust cycle, and he was correct that, if left unchecked, such a cycle would inevitably lead the poor and starving to revolt. That analysis formed the basis of later, more detailed work, which is still used by governments to this day,

Then he decided to be a philosopher of human nature and political theorist instead. We all know how THAT turned out.

Are you always this rude to strawmen, or is it just because your Christmas stocking was full of coal?

You can try claiming it's not all you want, but that doesn't change the legal facts.

To the letter of the law under the CFAA ANY USE OF A COMPUTER SYSTEM THAT IS NOT AN AUTHORIZED USE is a felony. You must have been asleep the last few years if you missed all the cases of prosecutorial abuse of this law where people have been charged with felonies for (among other things) making accounts for a fake persona (the Megan Meier suicide case) and downloading things too quickly (the Aaron Swartz case). Those are just the famous ones.

THE REALITY: If the company decides to ruin your life by complaining about your violation of the ToS to a federal prosecutor looking for an easy conviction (or just a bribe^H^H^H^H^H campaign contribution for when they run for Congress), then you will be facing felony charges.

You're the only one mangling definitions. He's using the same one everyone else in his jurisdiction does, where (like every where else in the world) "ownership" is defined by statute. Just because you don't like the law doesn't change the fact that the law defines what property "ownership" is. Welcome to civilization. It's an improvement over the previous condition where the definition of "ownership" was "you've killed everyone who wasn't willing to let you keep it."

Again with ignorant tripe being moderated informative.

The US was involved before the partition. Vietnam never would have been split except because of US interference.

How does this kind of ignorant tripe get modded insightful? Only someone with the most cursory, Eurocentric understanding of history would say this. All of your examples suggest that you passed your high school World History course by snoring through it.

Violent, Expansionist, Imperialist Powers NOT part of "the West": Achaemenid Empire, the Mauryan Empire, the (several) Mongol Empires, the Mughal Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the several Caliphates, the Angkorian Empire, the Burmese Kingdoms from 1400-1800, virtually every Chinese empire ever, etc. Depending on your particular definition of "Western," add the Russian and Byzantine empires for good measure.

Of course, they all had great positive achievements as well, just as the violent, expanionist, imperialist powers of the west all had great achievements too. Except, of course (just to Godwin this whole line of conversation), the Nazis. Fuck those guys.

There are lots of games where you can fight against the US in campaign mode. Hell, in C&C: Generals you could even play as Muslim terrorists. Of course, there are several Civil War games where you play from the Confederate side (Civil War Generals by Sierra was one of my favorite strategy games of all time if only for the imagined challenge of reversing what was really such a one sided conflict.

Food cost in any restaurant is going to be at most 30%. At McDonald's it's going to be much lower--almost certainly under 20% (which is the 5x he means, even though he used the wrong word since it's not an operating margin).