You could be used to develop more efficient hardware for everyone to use, or fix medical conditions, rather than posting on slashdot.

Yeah, and sex is just sticking your dick in a hole. Some of us care about which hole it is.

Big money interests are engaged in insider trading.

In idiot: Bad men do bad thing. Touch you in bad place.

Android and GNU/Linux aren't "compatible" for reasons that have nothing to do with the GNU userland (which runs quite fine on android).

Yeah, one of Bozo's quotes is "Your margin is my opportunity." Which is true, but it's also true for amazon 3rd party sellers and their app store.

Slashdot likes to complain about Walmart's business tactics but Amazon is just as bad if not worse.

The NSA investigates supreme court nominees and presidential candidates to "keep us safe." The IRS targets their "enemies" (ie, anyone who wants to eliminate or reduce the IRS). The DEA wants to root through all your prescriptions and medications? No chance that will ever be abused!

if it makes you feel better, rapists, drug dealers, murderers, etc are getting tickets for texting at red lights.

While it sucks to get busted, he's doing everyone a favor by strictly enforcing a terrible law. Everyday, you, I, and everyone violates laws. Not because we have a guilty mind or because we're bad people or doing anything wrong but because laws and regulations have grown to the point that it's not possible to live a strictly legal life. But if they're only selectively enforced, why should we care?

When I use VB or Pascal, I feel like the language is actively preventing me from doing stuff. Not the case with C or C++.

Some people like them because they're "safer". Those people still wear diapers.

are you guys still using MySQL?

I like them.

Yeah, he now uses a half black berry.

it's a prossie that specializes in shit/piss play.

Interest free loan? hah. You give them the money with no strings attached. You're not investing, you're not pre-purchasing. You have no legal standing and kickstarter doesn't give a shit what happens after the project is funded.

Have you ever witnessed the anger of the good shopkeeper, James Goodfellow, when his careless son has happened to break a pane of glass? If you have been present at such a scene, you will most assuredly bear witness to the fact that every one of the spectators, were there even thirty of them, by common consent apparently, offered the unfortunate owner this invariable consolation -- "It is an ill wind that blows nobody good. Everybody must live, and what would become of the glaziers if panes of glass were never broken?"

Now, this form of condolence contains an entire theory, which it will be well to show up in this simple case, seeing that it is precisely the same as that which, unhappily, regulates the greater part of our economical institutions.

Suppose it cost six francs to repair the damage, and you say that the accident brings six francs to the glazier's trade -- that it encourages that trade to the amount of six francs -- I grant it; I have not a word to say against it; you reason justly. The glazier comes, performs his task, receives his six francs, rubs his hands, and, in his heart, blesses the careless child. All this is that which is seen.

But if, on the other hand, you come to the conclusion, as is too often the case, that it is a good thing to break windows, that it causes money to circulate, and that the encouragement of industry in general will be the result of it, you will oblige me to call out, "Stop there! Your theory is confined to that which is seen; it takes no account of that which is not seen."

It is not seen that as our shopkeeper has spent six francs upon one thing, he cannot spend them upon another. It is not seen that if he had not had a window to replace, he would, perhaps, have replaced his old shoes, or added another book to his library. In short, he would have employed his six francs in some way, which this accident has prevented.

inaction by Congress is, in most cases, preferable to action by Congress.