Soldiers don't usually get charged with murder for combat operations, which they clearly thought it could be at the time, so they acted accordingly.

How they go about deciding whether force is necessary at the time is somewhat separate.

Ah. I had assumed you meant problems with the science. But I imagine that any kind of genre would have that same problem.

Bigotry is absolutely not the right word to use. "Narrow-minded," perhaps.

Red Mars? I think that's the "hardest" sci fi I've read off the top of my head. Could you be specific about how it was inaccurate?

Funny, my use cases are the exact inverse of yours. I have a JavaScript bookmark on my bar for exactly the last use case (well, for wrapping long <pre>s, actually). I don't have a webcam and don't intend to buy one, and would use different software for that anyway if I did, and have heard enough about Mozilla "focusing on speeding up JavaScript" for the last 12 releases that I'm sure it doesn't need more boosting for the time being.

How about *reducing* bloat? But yeah...

Yes.

Ever heard of a little thing called "treason" i.e. "don't tell our secrets to anybody ever"?

Whether or not they actually did it is completely separate from:

A) how convenient it is for the government to be able to charge him with something
B) what exactly the government will do with him *when* he's convicted (I would like to be able to say "if"...but really)

Like they say, you're not paranoid if they really are out to get you.

Well yeah...if you're talking assembly, depending on the problem, you could probably have literally one ideal solution. Minimize throwing stuff around between registers, and different ops destroy the contents of different ones...

Because it's nice being able to identify base characteristics from which to approach situations. I suppose we should all call each other Zem, too?

So Google's got CP itself...and since corporations are people...Google will be getting arrested for possessing child porn, right?

But of course we can't use the bullheaded and illogical laws on the corporations with all teh monies.

Yeah, people don't seem to realize that "on standby" == "still using several watts of power".

If I have a relatively regular pattern of when I turn it on and off each day, how much can they bitch? Logically, anyway...I make no claim as to projected and/or current logicality of the law.

Dense enough not to buy one, apparently.

What's the difference between "sub-pixel font rendering" and "treat every pixel as some shade between the font color and the background color"? I mean, how else would you do it?

Wait...Metro isn't GNOME 3?