So instead of fearing snipers, it is better to fear the rockets from fighter jets miles up in the sky?

Or, is it better to fear various curable diseases from killing your child instead of the snipers? I don't see the US spending trillions of dollars on these causes. Given the track record in Afghan and Iraq, it's pretty obvious that spending a few trillion on curing diseases like malaria, HIV, etc, even if unsuccessful, is probably better than spending trillions to make bad political situations worse.

Hong Kong native here. I'd be pretty shocked if the average person here does not know what a Key Lime Pie is (if translated to Cantonese, the local dialect here) . Most people probably tried it before. People here dig western desserts. The existence of a (stub) wikipedia entry of key lime pie in Cantonese (as opposed to standard Chinese) corroborates my claim.

I personally avoid desserts (and sweet things in general, because I prefer savory foods), but I think I tried some key lime pie before.

Your general point probably holds though, but I'm not sure KitKat has better penetrated those markets compared to the Floridan pie...

"KitKat" does sound much more catchy though.

uh... http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/09/03/0117228/google-play-services-supplants-android-as-googles-platform

In some languages the getopt() equivalent is pretty readable.

It's sort of unfortunate that after so many years, plain C is still the de facto standard language for Unix-alike systems. The limitations of the language (that it is designed with machine implementations in mind, instead of with human readability) makes it necessary to document more things than otherwise would have been in an ideal (/perfect) world.

It already happened. It's not exactly news.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._ElcomSoft_and_Sklyarov

I remember seeing this on Slashdot many years ago. It was quite a big news back then, and there were multiple articles and commentary on this (just search).

Hmm, I dunno.... This does seem to prove TFA's point....

In most civilized nations, they have to provide a fair (and open) trial, observe due process, and basically respect basic human rights, even if you're a threat to national security. There are international treaties on this. It is not exceptional.

the definition of open: "mkdir android ; cd android ; repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git ; repo sync ; make"

It depends. If I knew a person will actually stick fingers in his ears and not listen, it's almost certainly childish behavior on his part. People with better people skills and *finesse* would have much better ways to handle the situation.

Or maybe he intended to just cash out and leave without putting up with the bullshit, and still not be seen as breaking the terms of the deal....

As for new CEOs, well, supposedly the CEO can change the corporate culture and it's "song", but sometimes it takes great effort to do so, and when they fail, they get replaced. It's easier to work against the rules when you're at the top, but it's not necessarily a trivial task.

Citation needed. Where are you getting your data?

Your argument may make *you* safer, but probably won't significantly affect the average traffic risk.

The average driver is still clumped together, because they generally don't exercise the option to floor the pedal and escape the clump.

Are you guys seriously arguing over hypothetical (i.e. non-existent) statistics, and whether those hypothetical data can be obtained at all?

Except this, of course:

Apparently you're pulling that very very small likelihood out of your ass.

Don't worry. The OP's rant probably applies to most places.

Sadly, it's changing in recent years. I'm sure you have heard about the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Subsidy_Scheme ?

It's a grand plan of privatizing the "public" schools. In fact, a lot of the "good" schools have privatized under this plan. Sometimes I wonder whether the Hong Kong government and policy makers actually intend to actively import all the worst policies from America...