We do have limits to speech. Already.

Limits to causal reactions and effects. You can scream fire all you want, even in a crowded theater. The moment it causes panic and an event that causes death or injury, that no longer is free speech.

Threatening people's life and limb is banned.

Slander and Libel

Some of these limits are criminal (causing actual harm) while others require civil court actions (Libel). And even there, there are limits in favor of Liberty.

In your example, we have additional protections for children/minors who are unable to discern ill intents of adults taking advantage.

If someone is willfully and willingly lying to deceive that can be both criminal or civil (or both) in nature. We already have laws in place for that. But the ultimate issue here is that you cannot distinguish between the speech "there is a puppy lost" and the kidnapping that follows.

Freedom to express yourself is utmost sacred in our tradition of liberty. BUT you are not free from the consequences, real or imagined. It also means that government controls on speech are few and far between, and are usually tied to courts for adjudication. We still have Time Place and Manner restrictions as much as I think even THOSE are abused at times (e.g. can't play loudspeakers at 3AM)

How to say you don't know about OpenBSD development processes without saying you don't know.

Next time research before posting about OpenBSD. Even ChatGPT knows more about OpenBSD security development processes than you do, and that's the biggest possible insult.

If you want to say the same thing without being obviously biased, you can refer to this conventional Israeli wisdom:

Greater Israel, Democracy, or Jewish majority. Pick two.

This is far from certain. Often when a company wants to be bought, they hire people to lead purchasers to believe they are growing faster than reality. Caveat emptor.

It's pretty fair to compare. OpenBSD is a professional, well-built system. People use it because it's well-made. Windows 11 is an operating system that people use because it came with their computer.

Microsoft could do the things that OpenBSD does, their system could be just as secure as OpenBSD. OpenBSD doesn't do magic, it's just normal engineering. Microsoft would rather pretend to be secure than actually follow the practices that would make them secure.

Trump received more black votes than any Republican in history.

As blacks move up, they move right. Same for Hispanics.

Democrats need a positive agenda that addresses the concerns of working-class voters. They aren't gonna win by playing the race card.

It doesn't need to be. There are other reasons to wean off x86.

Sure. If you completely ignore the context that it is only intended for automated crawlers and misread it as referring to everyone then, yes, I agree that would be ridiculous...

(It's also kind of ridiculous in these days to have an essentially-voluntary anti-bot system and expect it to do anything, but that's another topic.)

As a free speech absolutist myself, I don't care if people are so stupid that they believe everything they're being told. The only problem I have is there are people believe the lies and vote.

See my signature for more info. Democracy is the collective stupidity of all of us, telling the rest of us how we ought to be ruled. -

COBOL is easy.

Easy to learn
Easy to program with
Easy to read.

It is very simple. Which is both a strength and its biggest weakness.

The problem is that programs written are NOT structured except the way the guy who wrote the code thought it should be ... if he even thought about it at all.

I was once upon a time hired to convert a COBOL programmed system into an SQL database. The example I use is there was this one proceedure done in COBOL ( take data, modify it this way, output accordingly), literally the same process, but it wasn't a procedure it was coded three different ways. The inputs and outputs should have been the same, they were .... most of the time. And that is why there was this other bit of code checking outputs over there ---->

Also written different ways.

Diarrhea code. They never did get it migrated. The guys who wrote it died and the system died with him. The real fix would have been to have a clean room implementation with three teams, the COBOL team, the API team and the SQL team. But it was a mom and pop shop, and didn't have the funds available which is why the system died when the last of the COBOL coders died.

Two economists were walking down the street when they saw dog poop on the sidewalk.

The first economist said to the second, "I'll pay you $100 to eat a spoonful of that dog poop."

The second economist figured it was an easy $100, so ate a spoonful of poop. Then he said to the first, "I'll pay you $100 to eat a spoonful."

The first economist ate a spoonful and collected his $100.

As they walked further down the street, the second economist said to the first, "We both ate dog poop for nothing."

The first economist replied, "Not true. We just added $200 to the GDP."

Yes. Much Cobol code was written before structured programming was standard. There are no unit tests. There are no classes to encapsulate complexity.

No, not really. A programmer can learn Cobol well enough to get work done in about a week. The problem isn't "learning the language", but learning about the legacy application you need to maintain. For instance, why is a discount applied to every invoice for customer #478324? Well, because he was the CEO's college roommate, but you won't learn that from the manual.

Only if you want to be pedantic.

There's been a lot of progress in programming languages in the last 60 years.

It is broke.

Your sig definitely applies to yourself with this post. Strong ignorance distorts your judgement.

Israel isn't trying to eliminate all Muslims. They aren't even trying to remove Muslims from their own army.

It's hard to take someone seriously when they think the solution for Tumbler's problems is to convert it to Wordpress.

Who was he talking to? That person in the background did not sound fit to be a caretaker.