Nicely done. That kind of self-loathing crap is always irritating to come across.

I don't have to be a great human being to be better than you, snowflake.

-jcr

I enjoyed watching TNG but the script quality was extremely variable. X-Files had some bad episodes, but overall the quality of writing was much, much better. Jose Chung's "From Outer Space" is one of my favorite episodes of any TV show.
Mulder - "What did you do with Scully!!?!?!"
Jesse Ventura - "Oh, ahhhh... she went to get some ice..."

"Calling theories"... Hypothesis was used in the quote. In fact "theory" doesn't appear at all. So you're arguing against some other statement.

"... the simple fact is that much of the modern world would simply not work if the words "hypothesis" and "guess" were equivalent." Incorrect. Reality doesn't give a crap how words are used. You apparently do and are taking umbrage. Fine, just don't act like what you're writing is fact. It isn't.

"... rather than mysticism and magical thinking." Or hypothesis.

'Yes, we have invented a way to unboil a hen egg,

Let me know when they can unboil a rooster egg. Now that will be something.

The guy must have something to hold over the heads of some media bigshots. I can't see any other reason why the two top Democratic party media properties would pass on giving the Republicans a black eye like this.

-jcr

Says someone who isn't getting any.

C++ wasn't designed, it was accreted.

-jcr

C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung.

-jcr

Got nothin' to do with bein' an old timer. My gaming mouse has a clickable scroll wheel and a set of twelve side buttons. It's simply a can't adapt thing.

It's like I'm really in 2002!

This is why you make cold backups.

What do you like for a dedicated pfSense box that runs 24/7 without chewing up too much juice?

Bad phrasing on your part. There is no incremental cost of enabling IoT on a device. There is replacing said device. I'm past 60. I still have my grandmother's waffle iron and it works fine, cotton wrapped cord and all. Many, many things have lifespans that will make the IoT very difficult to integrate into a current someone's life without great expense and waste and so they simply won't. The "ubiquitous" IoT will be late this century at best.

"Why wouldn't they?" Most are non-OCD.