Is that right enough for you?

Where the heck is an option for agnostics!? I don't believe in global warming, its not that sort of a thing. I don't know if its happening either, I am not a climate scientist. If id have to put down my foot somewhere, id say that the climate is probably warming, but I wouldn't draw any conclusions from it just yet. We have been measuring temperatures on our planet directly for totally insignificant time. So I'm agnostic. Polluting less is good regardless of the reasons why its done. So is reducing human footprint and developing a sustaining way to live because if its not sustainable there will be wars and famines and general mess to live through. If some people need a scary global warming monster standing behind their backs to strive for cleaner world, so be it. I don't. Oh, and man made is also natural causes. Men, us, in our existence are entirely natural. Us going extinct like the dinosaurs is also natural ;) Us surviving as we are is unnatural, so much so that its nearly impossible. We either evolve, transform and conquer the space or die. I guess that's what happens to most life in this universe.

It's as hard as learning to walk on wooden legs, hardness depending how much of your own legs you have left. But it will always be strange, like a man with wooden legs. I say hi to people. I never know when its appropriate, so I do it all the time just in case. Things you do without thinking and automatically I have to think about. And just like walking with wooden legs it tires you very fast. IT is good for people like me. Most of the day you can just do your thing quietly without too much communication.

I really hope you are right...

Uh? If the mechanisms and inheritance are better understood it can lead ways to alleviate or avoid the condition. As someone who's significant other is officially diagnosed Aspie and a software engineer I'd like to know my odds and all the ways I could mitigate the risks. I would be perfectly fine with another Aspie/high functioning autistic in the family, but the more severe end of the scale scares me profoundly.

This is why I reject morality and go with ethics instead.

s/hardware/car/

There is actually a precedent. There is the right to repair laws in EU that demand that hardware manufacturers make the error codes and service interfaces available to anyone.

That is true for anything the person has valuable including banking codes. It doesn't mean they should not have access to their bank account.

Better news is that Linux hardware and windows hardware will diverge and we are excused from paying the tax. Or manufacturers provide an override. Or windows will get exploited to load Linux. And windows 7 is here to stay for the next decade. Nothing will stay locked if there is a need...