To equate generic insults like "wanker" with a very specific accusation of "pedophile" is extremely dishonest. There is a big difference and you know it. In fact if you take a look around this comment section you'll already see people picking up on Elon's statement and calling the dude a "deplorable person" and worse.

I'm glad that it's not the opinions of French people that will kill journalism.

I find it very hard to believe that you spend more time writing feet/inches and minutes/seconds than generally quoting text.

If I could fill in a survey about the quality of that comment I'd give you five stars. A+++, would read again.

That's a load of shit. Even if your 35 vs 48 hours numbers aren't pulled out of your ass (and I think they are), it's still the case that people putting in way too many hours tend to burn out and not achieve more (in terms of actual meaningful output, even if they send lots of "look how busy I am" emails). People who stick to sensible working hours and maintain some work-life balance are more likely to calmly and thoughtfully look at the big picture before making decisions, compared to burnt-out stressheads.

Oh I don't particularly care to own either, but it's probably time to update that constitution to fix the bug which leads to thousands of deaths every year, and finally enact some sensible nationwide gun control. You do patch your software when fixes are available, don't you? I mean just look at this case -- the killer bought the weapon legally in San Diego. If you had gun laws making it harder (or, preferably, impossible) to buy guns in every state, then she couldn't have bought or carried it legally, and it would have made it much harder for her to shoot 3 employees in California.

Indeed, it's not the "fault" of guns. As they say, guns don't kill people, *people* kill people. That's why shouldn't let people have guns.

They do, but since only some of your states have strict gun laws, they can be worked around by acquiring a gun from a state with weaker gun laws. In this case, the shooter brought a gun from San Diego (less strict) into California (more strict). You need to bring stricter gun laws into all the states for it to have a more meaningful effect -- hopefully you've already voted for such changes in your own state?

Korans aren't useful weapons for committing mass murder. Guns, on the other hand, are pretty effective.

In Ireland our drinks cans and bottles are labelled in mL (if less than a litre) or L. So a can of Coke is 330 mL. Nobody here uses cL. Although we do use cm more than mm, I think.

And, it seems, you see petrol and diesel cars only from the time they are brand new until they no longer work.

You are blind to the fossil fuel input needed to mine, extract, refine, process, deliver raw materials for petrol and diesel cars.

You fail to account for fossil fuel's role in maintaining petrol and diesel cars and they fail to factor in fossil fuel's part in disposing of or recycling the components of deceased petrol and diesel cars.

If you've skipped them, how do you know they were trash...?

So people wouldn't be able to move around so much anymore?

Yes, and they also require the user to trust that the arbitrary code in their shiny native IRC client will be less harmful than the arbitrary *sandboxed* code, running in their web browser, with the ability to block known ad sites or restrict certain types of operation (like accessing the webcam or microphone, etc).

The current model of running native programs is indeed more powerful, but far, far less safe than running stuff in your browser's controller JavaScript sandbox. That's not to say that a superior alternative to both could exist -- maybe we could start integrating Docker (or similar LXC-type system) into the process of installing, running and deleting native-but-not-totally-trusted apps.

You claimed that he needed to prove a whole bunch of negatives before being able to draw any conclusions stronger than "we don't know". This is a little bit like the Bible thumpers' old favourite of "prove that there is no God, or you should assume one exists".