When you have a new toy, you can hardly wait to try it out.

When you build a new machine or write a new program you can't wait to test it.

for he could cast the sinning Eve as the first human that the kind and loving God tossed into the lake of fire, to be tortured forever and ever

That was a bug. Eventually the whole system was hosed, so he flooded it with zeros and started over. The next bug fix involved someone being beaten and then tortured, but that fix worked.

I'm far more scared of idiots texting while driving than I am of terrorists. In fact, terrorists don't worry me at all.

I'll be surprised if, as more and more people adopt electric cars, at some point there won't be massive power grid failures on a regular basis. It isn't designed for that sort of load

The power grid wasn't "designed" at all. It started over a hundred years ago and has been growing ever since, thanks to engineers, linemen, and power plant technicians.

Adoption of electric vehicles will come about gradually and the grid will be built to handle it. It's not like fifty million people in the US are going to buy Teslas tomorrow and suck it all at once.

They coped with massive electricity use gains during the 1920s, they'll cope with this.

It's not a "design feature" it's an insoluable engineering problem. Slashdot can't tell who you are when you're not logged in. The only fix would be disallowing all AC comments. Commenting after you've modded is indeed cheating. Of course, logged out you're starting at zero and few will see your comment unless you log back in and mod yourself up. I don't think anyone would deny that's cheating.

Maybe I got lucky. I had my first notebook for a year before it was stolen, and it did have a glitch -- if it was set to hibernate on close and sleep when powered, and you closed the lid then plugged it in before the lights stopped flashing, you had to remove the battery to get it going again. It was dual-boot and happened both with Windows 7 and kubuntu.

Its replacement didn't have those issues. I've had it for about 4 years now.

It ain't always like that, and not all women are whores like your ex-wife. In my case, she stayed home with the kids while I worked making damned little money. After I got a very big promotion when my new boss saw that I was doing things nobody else was capable of, I bought her a new car, we moved into a big house, and she left me (and our daughters) for an auto mechanic who was having all of his pay garnished by the IRS, the fool was in danger of prison.

Any woman (or man for that matter) who "falls in love" for money is a prostitute in disguise.

Then, a couple of years ago I met a woman with money who said she was in the middle of a divorce. She would never let me pick up the check. I dropped her when I found out her kids' ages, the same as mine when my ex left, I am NOT going to put kids through that.

Not all women are whores, and not all whores are streetwalkers.

Utter bullshit, it happens constantly. I learned not to buy a record album unless it was a best of, greatest hits, live, by a band I knew would have mostly good songs, or had heard the album at a friend's house almost half a century ago. I own over a dozen Isaac Asimov books; were it not for the public library I would likely never have even known he existed. I certainly am not stupid enough to buy a book by an author I hadn't read.

I pirated season 6 of TBBT last May. I bought the boxed set last week.

Tell me, how did I, a completely unknown author, manage to sell copies of Nobots? Simple: the people who bought it already read the first draft at slashdot. Had I not posted them I would not have sold a single copy.

Statistics show that pirates spend more money on media than non-pirates. The studies say exactly the opposite of your misinformed opinion.

No. Trade is "I'll give you a coconut for those shiny beads." (yes, trade back scratches), This is "Hey, DUDE! Let me buy you a beer!"

Oh, and what they're drinking is in no way, shape, or form "beer". You don't make beer by spitting into fruit juice.

Wow, the ignorant moderating the ignorant up.

If Congress can't handle a simple friggin website project, it's time to clean house and Enact term limits.

1. Congress doesn't build the web site, that's the Executive Branch's job
2. The President's term is already limited
3. My web site is a "simple friggin website project" but the ACA site is not. It has to pull data from many different databases in different agencies and private insurance companies, and feed the data to the states' exchanges. And it has to be able to handle hundreds of thousands of users at once.

No way is it a "simple website".

The guy who shot Oswald on live TV?

How is Rand Paul in any way whatever a centrist?? You can't get much father to the right without goose stepping.

If copyright were only ten years, Asimov wouldn't have made a dime from the Foundation trilogy. An editor at Doubleday was flabbergasted that Asimov hadn't received a single royalty in ten years (the books didn't sell, the publisher was weak in marketing) and only after Doubleday bought publication rights from Gnome did Asimov see any money.

I'm just now getting Nobots published, your ten year time period would limit my protection to six years, since I starteed working on it in 2009 (it started with a slashdot comment).

That said, twenty years is plenty of time (especially if an extension could be granted) and for software, ten would probably be more appropriate. The present length is absurdly long and harms creativity -- art is like science, in that everything new comes from the old.