To be fair, since the internet is global, every government that tries to enforce it's own rules on it is engaging in the acts of a vigilante. That's doubly the case when they go after businesses that are not physically present in their own country.

If I was going to be in Australia for more than a week, I'd do my best while there to adjust my accent so they could better understand me and do my best to learn to understand them. If they came here, I'd expect them to do the same.

In theory, anyone can learn to understand any accent. It's a matter of best use of time and environment, though. If you're one of the minority speaking with (or having trouble understanding) an accent and you're in that acccent's home environment, then it's on you to adapt. As you take away "minoring" and who's home environment you're in, the responsibility to adapt changes targets.

Instead, they decided to build their own dead language. That's a solid plan. That being said, Tcl isn't dead and it's actually a fantastic scripting language to add to other programs. It's actually pretty solid as a full development language, too. It has it's warts, but so does every language.

What you're saying is certainly true, but keep one thing in mind... they're shutting down the trains in New York (subway and metro north) on Saturday for the duration of the event. The amount of people that use mass transit dwarfs that of DC. The fact that it's closed is going to have a huge impact on the traffic,

The company that makes (publishes) the game gets payed once for each copy sold/being used in the wild. If two people want to be able to play the game, then they get paid twice.

The companies that resell used games get payed once for each time they help transfer ownership of one such instance of a game from one person to another.

Admittedly, its slightly more complicated than that... but I don't see what possible issue can be raised by game companies without the same issue being applicable to any product that has a physical representation that's all that's required to use it, ie one that can be resold.

Even better, imo:

char c = 1["abc"]; // c = 'b'

Type 2 Diabetes is often caused by life-style choices. Type 1 Diabetes is a medical condition caused by a failure of the pancreas to do it's job. I know you said "often", but the distinction between the two types is fairly significant.

The definition of professor depends entirely on the locale and university in question. Your definition, while one of them, is not the only one. Poking around dictionaries and wikipedia will provide other definitions (up to and including anyone that happens to teach at a college/university).

I would hope there was a bit more to it than that, because then one person stealing another's code would cause the person that didn't do anything wrong to fail.

If your front end page code is doing enough that speed is an issue, there's good odds that your front end page code is doing too much.

It is more like running a splitter and a cable and stealing your neighbors cable TV. Or running an extension cord to a backyard outlet and stealing power. Or perhaps a cordless phone. People accept that they have to pay for electricity, phone, but the internet should be free? why?

If you want to compare it to using someone else's power, I'd say it's more like finding a power outlet in a public place with a big label on it "For Public Use... You May Use This". If you don't secure your wireless network, then that is what you are setting up. Someone comes along, picks up your signal, follows the standard process of asking the router if they're allowed to use it, and the router tells them they are. You chose not to take the "For Public Use" sign off your signal...