Yep. Many companies have gone bankrupt because some new executive decides to outsource production to China. The new executive is naive enough to believe that a Chinese company will honor the non-disclosure agreement and won't sell critical trade secrets to everyone else. Manufacturing is moved overseas, stateside employees are laid off, the business suffers initial losses because the Chinese company hasn't figured out how to actually perform the process correctly yet, and then a few months later the company goes entirely bankrupt because their trade secrets are now suddenly common knowledge in the entire industry.

The executive then gets another bright idea: they'll sue the Chinese company to recover damages! If the Chinese company still exists by this point (unlikely), they'll win in court because, to no one's surprise, the Chinese government doesn't give a fuck about protecting American IP rights. Much money is burned, legal fees are collected, the executive staff gets a golden parachute, and all the hard working American employees are shit out of luck and scrambling to find jobs at another American company that will make the same fucking mistakes as their previous employer.

Why are you blaming people who responded to your invitation for anyone to join? You can't advertise an open bar and then be surprised when a few angry alcoholics show up.

How about you make a product that I want to buy and then I'll give you money for it. There's no "patience" involved here, it's just the free market working like it should for once. Whoever releases a product that doesn't make users sick first will probably get a crapload of money.

No, it's not. That study you mentioned only compared a handful of super-scientific articles about which there is no controversy, only a single correct interpretation of the facts, and consists of entirely objective material. When you compare Wikipedia with other encyclopedias with regard to social science, history, or basically anything that isn't a list of math proofs, you find that Wikipedia is far worse off.

Call your congressman and ask them why they're using illegal surveillance tools to let criminals get away.

No. Most people won't ever come anywhere remotely close to needing to know how to code. Now, engineers, scientists, accountants, and various professionals that require a *college* degree might benefit from it, but that means that it should be taught in college, not in high schools.

You're looking for the wrong thing. You want your two-year-old and a toddler to be responsible for telling you when there's an emergency?! Are you fucking nuts? The solution here is not some unreliable piece of tech based on a homebrew solution susceptible to all the failures of internet service, IP cameras, and routing equipment. The solution here is nursing care or other medical devices. You need to talk to your doctor, but a bunch of IT nerds on the internet.

>As with most things, I think the truth lies somewhere in the middle

That's a myth. It's almost always perpetuated by those making asinine claims. It's simple, you make an absurd claim and then when the reasonable people show up, you simply attack them for being "too extreme".

You are the most deluded fuck I've heard from in the last month. Congratulations.

You'd get more than that. By running these operations, they're driving away real users and making the information that Facebook collects less valuable. There would be some monetary damages as well.

Of course they can. Shady landlords have a habit of evicting people who report them. Yeah, it's illegal, but do you think that lawyers are free? Do you think that most people can afford to lose their place to live for 6 to 8 months while a trial takes place?

No, we aren't going to make a custom piece of software for your business, jackass. It's pretty obvious that you're in the business of buying collections of trading cards sold on ebay, etc. to then resell to other collectors at a profit. You need to pay for the services (in this case, software programming) you receive and ditch the sense of entitlement that you seem to have.

Go call a freelance software developer and pay them, or do it yourself.

By your logic, we need the bomb squad to visit every neighborhood on garbage day because the streets will literally be littered with containers that "might" be a bomb. Dipshit.

Following protocol "to the letter" is almost *always* an overreaction. It's also the last refuge of idiots when they do stupid shit. "I didn't have a choice! I had to act like a fucking retard because the rules said so!!!" Nothing but a bunch of lame excuses.

> Gun nuts are paranoid as hell,

It's not paranoia when, as this article proves, the government really is out to get you.