So what if you go to a website and it's serving javascript with an embedded and encrypted child porn jpeg? You should stop browsing the internet because it could happen, and then you'll go to jail.

It must be difficult living in such perpetual fear.

Or how easy it is to fall out of or off the vehicle in an accident.

Yeah, that's kind of my point. It pisses off a lot of people who I'd like to be pissed off. Would be even more awesome if it were a single 1.7TB file, but I guess that's unlikely.

I would easily do it if I hadn't filled my hard drive with crap movies I'll never watch. I'd just put a wget in a screen on my server and go on with my life. In a few days it'll be on my HD, ready to be removed the instant I need the space for more crap movies I'll never watch. It's not really a big deal.

Not the incompetence of the voters to vote for long term governments rather than short term tax cut promises?

So do your weight loss in grams. Lose thousands of grams in a month!

This is something that a lot of newspapers do, and it's so extremely silly every time you see it.

"He walked three thousand miles (4828 km)"

Yeah, and if you have a recipe that calls for 160 grams of butter and you want to cut it by 1/4, then it's easy to use 40 grams. I don't understand the difference either. :)

Doesn't sound like a problem, as much as a natural place to start.

I'm planning a kickstarter for a cloud based quantum software robot with an integrated 3D printer so it can print its own spare parts.

(Actually just posting nonsense to undo a faulty moderation I did..)

I've used recursion in assembler code plenty of times, not sure what you mean here.

print "Die!" foreach 1..3;

Maybe they will start to care when the journalists and certain political parties stop lying to them about what's actually happening.

So you've missed the various pirate parties getting mandates in many European nations in some places even nationwide, not to mention two seats in the European Parliament.

I'm sure that's where we're heading, but slowly. But there are some drawbacks selling directly to customers.

Dealing with whiny and irrational end customers can be a horrible experience. A company that can get away with it while still making money may very well feel that it's better to pay the overhead of a middleman. You also take a risk with your brand, if you don't spend enough on customer support, your brand is tarnished by that, even if your cars are solid.