If you want your old-timey exhortation to have the true flavor, you'd use "Onanistic" instead of "masturbational". The latter word wasn't spoken by polite society, while the former is both Biblical and very popular in the actual anti-masturbation propaganda of the time you're hearkening back to.

Very good parody other than that, though. I hope.

Does it matter to me if the weak male class doesn't have kids? Hell no -- and they make good employees, too. Maybe better ones.

I dunno. They both have their encumbrances. Daddy says "Sorry, can't work late, gotta watch Junior." Non-daddy says "Sorry, can't work late, gotta raid."

If Hollywood had succeeeded in outlawing VCRs, they'd all be a lot poorer.

Nonsense. You don't have the proper perspective.

Outlaw VCRs. Mandate VCPs (Videocassette Players). Sell pre-recorded videos. Never let anyone record anything over-the-air or tape-to-tape.* Profit!

*Yes, this means that the only kind of video recording authorized in the hands of the little people would be home video cameras, and those would be prohibited from any technical capability to record anything except what comes through the lens. And then you have to come up with some way to close the analog loophole of recording a TV screen.

Sometimes, the best thing to do is to kick a charging, barking dog in the teeth. But sometimes, it's not, like if the dog is rabid.

Schwagger's tone and rhetoric is so amazingly over the top that if she were more than just a metaphoric dog, I would be quite concerned about rabies.

You can't fault Jay Lee for reflexively flinching. I just hope he hasn't hurt his standing if he does have to pursue some kind of legal teeth-kicking.

Actually a true douche is someone who willfully, arrogantly, and flagrantly infringes on copyrights and then hides behind a human shield of "OMG Think of the BABBIEZ" while ranting and threatening and giving off huge amounts of pscho-rays.

Other than the "Think of the BABBIEZ" angle, a typical bully.

Which, I think, is the point. The "you" in "If you want to use this photo, YOU NEED TO PAY ME! " includes... you. Personal use or not.

Sorry. You may not get caught if you use those copyrighted images for off-line personal uses, but the rights owner can certainly reduce the value and desirability of the images available without payment to discourage that kind of infringement.

I suspect there are attorneys who believe that justice, as practiced by qualified and experienced practitioners, consists of throwing every crazy thought whispered by the voices in their heads at the wall, calling it "the law", and hoping it sticks.

Following the little bits of law circus that pop up in the news makes me amazed and confused at the bewildering profusion of brainless, half-assed, "you gotta be kidding me" legal theories thrown up by clueless, desperate, or completely amoral participants in the Courtroom Lotto.

The author of ntrtscan.exe needs to be sentenced to 10 years of COBOL programming.

Hey, that's not fair. He already served that sentence, in the act of actually writing ntrtscan.exe!

How about, "It hurts users who have loaded extensions signed with Yahoo's private key, who now have to unload those extensions and find updated versions signed with Yahoo's new private key."

Fer instance.

BTW, "hurt" is the drama-queen way to express the impact. "Inconvenience" is more accurate. Both for Yahoo, and users who have trusted Yahoo's old signatures, as long as the revocation is effective and quick enough to prevent Yahoo-signed malware from getting a foothold.

If that happens, the impact to users escalates beyond "inconvenience" to "big inconvenience" or "real hurt", depending on what gets compromised. "Big inconvenience" == your machine becomes part of a botnet. "Real hurt" becomes a keylogger that transmit your banking or other personal information to an online crim who strips your bank accounts and begins to use your identity fraudulently.

How about "read"?

"Dogfight" by Swanwick and Gibson. You think the VA's problems are bad now, wait until they have to deal with the ruined shells of combat-enhanced-and-then-demilitarized neurologically damaged veterans. As bad as PTSD and TBI are now, just think of how much worse it will be when most combat veterans have their nervous systems and mental health irretrievably ruined with battle drugs and combat-oriented conditioning and (maybe) implants.