Your entire thing seems to be that you can't easily convert between units. Speaking as an American who has lived in metric countries for the last decade, that's bullshit. Nobody ever needs to know how much a liter of water weighs. Nobody ever converts dekameters to hectometers. You just stick with one unit, the one that's suitable for whatever you're measuring.

"When you say "pound" do you mean force or mass?"
Fucking hell, when is the last time anyone needed to actually use this? "In the lab the other day" yeah right we're not talking about edge cases.

Moreover, if you're a drinking man like me, the metric system is a ripoff. A bottle is 12 fluid ounces and that's all there is to it. 355ml. With the metric system, at best you get 350ml, and it's really easy to slide down to 325ml, 275ml, and so on.

Please stop perpetrating the false "nerds/jocks" dichotomy. It's bullshit. Just because people like me don't want to be videoed all through my day by some gadget-obsessed moron who desperately, desperately wants to call himself a "cyborg" doesn't mean we were athletes in high school. Fuck off and stop saying this.

The novel coronoavirus are deadly, we know that

What we did not know --- and thanks to the IP-scandal, now we know --- is how deadly the lawyers are

The outbreak of this novel coronavirus is at least (so far) somewhat contained --- what I am afraid is, and what all others should too, is that, next time, when there is an outbreak of a far more virulent virus, which spread very fast worldwide, will the world still allowing these deadly lawyers ram their law books into the medical research labs ?

That's no problem - just wait another eight hours or so, the story will appear again on the front page. Probably with the duplicate sentence eliminated. Maybe.

That will fasten the pace in which virgin forest disappears and be replaced by farmland / mining activities

Stop being an idiot. Communism is opposed due to what it is, a horrid system that killed tens of millions of humans in pursuit of a perfect society. They tried your idea where nobody wants to make a profit and it failed. Making a ridiculous extremist straw man post doesn't help things.

The Right Answer is very frequently Common Sense. And Common Sense is what makes us better than those senseless morons who don't have any Common Sense. All of us who matter and are important have Common Sense -- or course we do. If you agree with us, you have Common Sense, and you are therefore not one of those senseless morons who disagree.

Too bad President McCain kept us from repairing them by vetoing that stimulus package.

You don't understand. Metric is The Right Answer. And knowing The Right Answer makes us better than other people who don't know The Right Answer. We're important. We matter.

In your answer, we don't matter. How can we be important if knowing The Right Answer isn't important? Therefore, the US must officially adopt the metric system.

"While they are working to make a better Facebook Home experience"

$ ping facebook.com
PING facebook.com (173.252.110.27): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 173.252.110.27: icmp_seq=0 ttl=87 time=59.217 ms
64 bytes from 173.252.110.27: icmp_seq=1 ttl=87 time=58.550 ms
64 bytes from 173.252.110.27: icmp_seq=2 ttl=87 time=58.887 ms
--- facebook.com ping statistics ---

Try harder.

Might I suggest you check out this. That's the whole point of the RepRap project.

Sure you can. Just put some teeth behind privacy policy violation. If a company says it will do one thing and does something else, penalize it. Defining appropriate (and scalable) penalties would require some thought; you need to make sure that it will hurt no matter how big the company is, and you also need to ensure that companies don't get slammed for the actions of one malicious or negligent employee, but that they do get smacked if there's evidence of a pattern of encouraging or even tolerating such employees. But I think that could be defined with some time and some thought.

Further, it would be a good idea to direct legislatively that the policies covering a given piece of information are the policies that were in place at the time the data was collected. No retroactive policy changes, not without specific, positive permission from users.

I think that approach would strike the right balance, assuring that individuals have the right to trade their personal information for services if they so choose, but ensuring that companies can't arbitrarily change the deal.

It sounds like the objection was that he ran servers, the bandwidth thing was merely the trigger to ask.

I'm baffled ISPs still think "servers" are something that needs banning. Reminds me of when so many clueless ISPs banned NAT (or rather connection sharing between multiple PCs in general.)

Nukes?! I prefer to use Chinese Needle Snakes.

Ammunition is readily available in Switzerland, including for the military calibers. They no longer issue the sealed ammunition package to be kept with the rifle, but that's no obstacle. Actually, if you go to a government-sponsored gun range you can buy ammunition with a government subsidy, and without any paperwork. Technically you're supposed to use fire all of the ammunition at the range, but no one checks. Or you can buy it at a gun store, where you'll have to do some paperwork which includes a background check, but it's not at all difficult.