Look, I get it. You're 14, you live in your parents' basement... The problem with trolls, fanboys and flamers...

You are a case of a flamer flaming flamers. :)

American perspective vs. German(/European).

Yeah, yeah, stereotypes are evil, yaddy yah, but you know it's true.

Another senseless buzz-defined buzz phrase.

Never heard of it before, but then, it don't make no difference - never used it before and won't use it now.

This is why we should never fuck with time - just not worth all the hassle that crop up.

Yes, informative in demonstrating psychiatry is load a crap - pile upon piles of ambiguous, infinitely stretchable verbiage.

You can't control me, fool!

Oh, I don't know. I've seen some male bimbos in my days so far.

And also, calling a girl "bozo" would be offensive to women, and that would be uncivilized. Right?

Good one, judges. Please follow it thru to the completion and make an example out of these vile cretins.

All hail to Debian. :-)

When the geezers yell "get the hell of ma lawn!", they are shouting AT YOU. NOW GIT.

This is even messier because it deals with books, mostly copyrighted works. Copyright is a state-granted artificial monopoly - mix in anti-collusion statues and you get one fine convoluted mess.

Some rich people get sick with a rare condition, they fund research addressing it. Sure, others may benefit from it as well, but it's not exactly selfless philanthropy, is it.

BTW, wired is nothing but bullshit hype. It always has been, and fuck me if I can figure out how they managed to still be in business.

It's always been thus, only bit more so recently.

UC (California) schools are recruiting more out-of-state and international students who pay higher tuition. Other state schools are probably doing similar.

Ivy League schools have always done so giving preference to legacy and wealthy applicants (on the hush). Other private schools are the same.