The concept of false arrest seems to have disappeared completely in the last 10 years.

If your company can't afford to buy you a second monitor, get out now.

By your own admission, this stuff is phenomenally cheap. Why is there even a discussion?

It's happened to me exactly once. Budget wouldn't let me drive from Texas to New Mexico with the vehicle.. I walked away from their desk and went to the Avis desk. Problem solved.

Actually, I think that's the exact opposite of the way I feel.

I refuse to buy something with strings attached. I won't buy a bicycle under the condition that I never let anyone else ride it, or with the expectation that the person who sold it to me could inspect my usage of it. Hell, I won't event rent a car from someone who restricts where I can go with it.. I tell those rental companies to buzz off and go with the one next to them.

Similarly, I would much rather run software that is permissively licensed (and I hope for the day when the bullshit argument that you have to have a license or you'll get sued for implied warranty or whatever) and if that means the software is free of charge, then all the better.

Also, the commies are coming.. oh, but we don't quote that part of the speech.

Neither actually make the idea any less retarded.

But apparently if you were one of the spam-in-a-can heroes of the 60s space program we're required to accept everything you say as gospel until you die.

Which won't be long now.. http://www.xkcd.com/893/

yes, I know. The public good coinciding with the commercial good, wtf? It's almost like that Adam Smith guy was onto something!

I hate Apple with a passion but think they're actually improving the standard of living in developing countries by offering work there.

The question is: are the workers free to leave for a better opportunity? If not, then they're slaves.. otherwise they're just poor, and hiring poor people is a nice thing to do.

Feature that will no doubt be added to Facebook soon: ghost profiles. They probably already have it for people who get tagged in photos but don't have a Facebook account, but I expect soon it will become an acknowledged process - you'll be able to say "I know that girl" and create a profile for her.. fill in any information you know about her.. and other people will do the same. Those of us who don't have Facebook profiles will first hear about it when someone says "hey, I sent you a friend request on Facebook and you didn't accept it!" and you say "I don't have a Facebook profile" and they say "oh, it must be a ghost profile."

Enjoy the total information society.

Yes, but we need to make murder illegal on Tuesdays.

By definition a required rating is not voluntary.

A uniform system would be censorship... as that's the traditional role of movie classifications.

I think you mean you want a voluntary rating system, like the rest of the world.

We don't have time for a handjob.

For Internet? Sure.. for movies and video games? Yep, censorship is the official policy with no apologies. Adults are not permitted to decide what they wish to watch, that's the decision of the state.