Putting a sucking void in /dev/null is sort of like putting a portable hole inside a bag of holding. Don't try this at home.

Well it worked with the CAN SPAM Act of 2003 didn't it?!?

The original idea behind "ride-sharing" is just as that phrase sounds like: it was about carpooling. We are going to the same general location, so to help get cars off the road, I can help you out with gas costs, and we both come out ahead. The app facilitates finding drivers and riders in the same area, going in the same direction.
By that measure, Uber pays drivers (and charges riders) too much already. The fees should be just enough to cover fuel costs. If drivers are doing this as a job, then it's not really getting cars off the road. By driving to places that they would not normally be going anyway, traffic/fuel consumption is not decreased.
If drivers want to make a living carting people around, they should go hook up with a limo or taxi company. The stories of people buying new cars just to become Uber drivers is insane. It's exactly opposite of the (original) intention of the company. They would be well-served to get back to their roots, and avoid all the questions about contractors/employees/unions altogether.

GM foods get labeled: "It's because they're dangerous."
GM foods don't get labeled: "It's because they have something to hide."
It doesn't matter which way it goes, people are always going to be distrustful of something they don't understand.

"The United States" doesn't do any mining, only private corporations do. The TPP is a tacit admission that corporations (via ISDS) are above national governments anyway.
The Outer Space Treaty prevents celestial bodies from being claimed as (Earth) national territory, but apparently says nothing about commercialization of such bodies by private entities.

Really? The one move that helped AOL stay alive long enough as a dial-up service was moving to unlimited access in 1996. That grew the userbase right up until they merged with Time Warner at the same time home broadband was starting to become a thing.
In other words, moving to unlimited access was a huge boon to the company, and would have worked long-term if always-on connections didn't happen. Unless there's a whole new way to connect to the internet coming in the next few years, this is all about the money.
Now, if they would offer LOWER bills for lower access (half price for 10GB, say) then I would believe it's all about the "fairness" that Comcast is pushing. It's no coincidence that they are moving to cap connections right as IPTV services and 4K video are on the horizon. All the major ISPs now are TV providers, or are very cozy with them. The new services are competing with the cable TV cash cow, and won't be allowed to survive.

I just switched to Comcast because the only other "alternative" is 3mb DSL.According to the FCC's definition of broadband, Comcast is literally the only provider in my area.
People need to understand that Comcast gets significant concessions from local governments such as monopoly protection (municipal franchise agreements) and special access (utility line right of way). Get your neighbors together, fill up a city council meeting, and demand action from the ground up.

Well what the fuck do clinical psychologists know, anyway? Surely the clergymen and the trial lawyers are the real experts here.

Yeah, audio indicators are a good first step, but can we just block all auto-playing videos outright?

There's a 25-hour day coming up this weekend in most areas of the US. Most of Europe did it last weekend. It's already standard.

One second is "the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom."
Everything else is derived off of that. Why does one minute every few years have to be redefined just to keep "one day" relatively constant? They've effectively got two units of measurement that conflict with one another. We let "one year" drift enough that it only needs to be corrected once it's off by a whole day. Why not let those seconds accumulate and have a second leap day every hundred thousand years or so?

The FBI is part of the DOJ, which recently announced that they were going to get warrants before deploying their Stingrays. The IRS is part of the Treasury Department, which is OK with using them with only a Pen Register request.
In cases where the agencies are working together, it's likely they have IRS agents use their own device with the much lower standard of evidence, per department policy.

But is that really any different than "is this on NBC? TNT? AMC? Damn I can't remember." As long as the service is supported on my player of choice, switching streaming channels is not terribly different than switching broadcast channels.

And since time runs backwards as well, you can observe the reverse from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

I really should have said "additional" controls on alcohol and medications. All the industries mentioned are highly regulated already, and even if you believe that alcohol is more tightly controlled than guns are, what has all the extra regulation gotten us? A product with triple the kill rate of firearms.