"Unfortunately most Slashdotters seem to support this government and want to make it even larger and more involved in everyone's daily lives."

You must be reading a different Slashdot that I am. For instance, you should check out any post that has to do with gun control, s/w piracy or net neutrality.

Also, Swartz's death is a sad story, but I'm a little irritated that so many people are using his suicide to further their own agendas, no matter how just they may be. He left no suicide note. The claims that he killed himself because of his legal woes will always remain conjecture. The guy suffered from depression, after all, and depression is a documented killer. Ten percent of people that suffer from it end up committing suicide.

Charming. I'm sure you'll end up with a very quality woman. Or at least a very desperate one.

Really. Have you ever been to that town?

That is the very essence of a free market and supply/demand. Price gouging is when you charge an earthquake victim $5 for a small bottle of water.

NatasRevol is right. When reputable papers publish stories with factual errors it wouldn't be unusual for someone to lose a job. Even my college newspaper had a "one screwup" policy. On the next one you were gone.

Wow, there's nothing like a story about swearing to show the maturity of the typical Sashdotter. I guess it's time to head over to YouTube for some truly insightful comments.

Precisely.

Tinnitus.

That's not insightful. That's stupid. I regularly go through my entire work day without swearing. Swearing is for people with no imagination or poor command of the language.

i.e. it stops maturing.

There's no need to malign idiots.

Two.

That was my point. You missed it.

Indeed. It is amazing the amount of prosperity that a 13% flat tax has generated for Russia. If you're already an oligarch.

Until you need the power of regular expressions. Then Perl starts looking pretty clean again.

Also, it's easy to write bad looking Python. Just use the same naming convention for variables, methods and objects. That is the first thing I encountered coming on to maintain my first Python script.