Controlling what is available via their own app store != controlling what people can run.

Did you really think that posting the phrase moral authority in bold would not get about 100k people smirk at your naivety? This is business, not some pen and paper debate on the ideology of product distribution.

The scary thing for me really is if speed isn't the largest factor then what is? Stupidity? (likely) Lack of paying attention? (certainly)

If you start removing the things that people do have to worry about being in control of then are people more or less likely to get into a mental state when driving where their lack of care and attention lead to fatal accidents?

Won't the membership statement just be like:

"Any books sent are as gifts to the recipient. If the recipient wishes to gift the book back to you around the time that you gift your book back to them then this is purely coincidental".

Unless giving people gifts is illegal too?

But... that means summer started 2 months ago? damn, time to find me my shorts.

Do you think that more than a few tens of thousands of people will ever care or that more than a few hundred thousand people in the world will ever hear about it or know what it means?

This is not an area where public perception matters. There's no publicity, just a quick (and in the grand scheme of things) quiet buck to me made if possible.

I guess they could argue that while the raw numbers are inaccurate, the relative figures you can extrapolate from the data would still be useful.

The problem is that scientific claims are publicised and jumped on by the media, this raises the bar at how loud you have to shout to continue getting your comfortable amount of funding, so then you need to keep shouting.

These people are career 'environmental scientists' and have a vested interest in perpetuating the worst case scenarios so the money keeps rolling in. Once you are out of fashion in science then you might as well not exist.

I'm not saying that the things they are studying aren't happening, but being conservative doesn't put you high on the list when the money is being allocated.

This is possibly the stupidest thing I've read on /.

Are there ratings that stop adults buying things? Do things that don't exist get rated?

The problem with diversity is that most projects have 1 or 2 genuinely innovative and clever people who seed it with ideas and then a load of mediocre people. If you can cherry-pick the talent and unify in that sense then surely that could only be a good thing.

The irony of course is that if no one can tell anyone what they should be working on because it is all free and open, then surely we should not really care one iota what Linus thinks, because if everyone else considered unification a good idea then no one can tell them what they should be doing to stop them.

students: i'll have a half and half texmex and anchovy and tuna. and don't mess up the crust like you did last time you hear me?
space station: uh... you realise you just called the international space station...
students: oh, so now you're going to tell me you don't even deliver south of the river?