The problem with the cell phone carrier market is that there are relatively few providers, and worse, consumers do not demonstrate loyalty to any one, but switch when better deals are offered on the others.

This means the only factor that matters is price and availability of features the market wants.

As a result, this news story will have zero effect. Every few months another atrocity comes out about some cellular carrier or another, but the audience just doesn't care.

See, the free market came through where government did not.

These are your new elites, America.

We got tired of upper middle class white kids. That's gauche.

Now, we have a multicultural empire of elites, who are selected for their obedience as much as anything else.

It seems they cheat a lot. When you prioritize obedience and detail-memorization above the ability to think, that's what you get: little robots that do anything to get the grades.

That's your future, America.

Now transferring my investments to Europe and Asia...

People work on problems that are (a) fun to solve and (b) will bring them acclaim.

Tiny, ugly, boring bugs don't do that and so in many software projects they get overlooked the longest.

The ][, ][+, //e and //c were great machines.

They were hacker's machines.

Easy to do basic stuff on, no barriers to entry, and yet also very friendly to either grandma or the weekend code warrior.

After that, Apple started wanting to go for the easy money. The Macintosh was marketed with the de facto notion that even if mental retardation struck you where you stood, you could still use one.

Now it's just a hipster machine.

Bring back the hacker days, when not everything came with "wipers" to make sure we didn't screw up.

Are you listening, Apple? After the iHype fades, you're going to need a new direction. What's like an Arduino, Raspberry Pi and new frontier all in one? A hacker's machine, of course.

I realize it's unpopular to like what we have in the West, and most people express this with fawning adoration for its opposites, but I beg to differ.

Communism sucks in every way.

It doesn't work politically, it sabotages the intellectual and moral will of the population, and it even fails economically, wherever it is tried.

I'm sure the VC are trying hard to cover up their failures with propaganda. It's what they always do. And yet, that means collapse is right around the corner.

It'll be interesting to see the USA granted a late victory in this war.

People often commit suicide out of a sense of revenge on the world.

If we blame the government for Aaron's actions, this encourages more people to commit suicide, so that whoever is antagonizing them gets blamed.

The best logic if we want to stop suicides is to frame it as what it always is: an individual choice. This allows us to emphasize the consequences of that choice on the individual and immediate family, discouraging that individual.

It's sort of an unwritten rule that the people who should kill themselves do not kill themselves, while the people who should not seem to succeed at an alarming rate.

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Is it still 1999? We haven't moved on from this buggy, horrible, shitty runtime (Flash) yet? Even though its origins are in early 1990s interface design software?

A small (7.62 mm) hole is made at the base of the skull, eliminating the patient's need to ever disagree with the State again.

Of those 100 travelers in a busy public space, about 8 are farting at any given moment.

If that heat and gas could be captured, we might have an alternate energy revolution, especially within a few blocks of a Taco Bell.

Our Constitution guarantees us a number of ways to work through government for change.

The problem with protests is that by working around these methods, the methods are weakened. In addition, people start believing that dramatic public attention-getting is more important than reasoned political argument.

As the only people who truly profit from this, the media love it, coming and going. One great reason to support piracy is to weaken the profits of Hollywood and the news-entertainment media.