Since you just made up a rule that is impossible to follow unless you always drive no faster than ten miles an hour, I can't say that I attach much importance to it.

"Ask the average consumer to name five Android vendor options. I'll bet they'd struggle to name more than three."

Ask the average consume to name five iPhone vendor options.

Meh, it's rsilvergun. I don't like the crass hate posts he was getting for a while, but he is pretty unconnected to reality.

I believe you are remembering a quote from George Orwell's 1984: "He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past."

"Whether I'm paying a mortgage or rent, what difference does it make in my viability when property values double?"

The difference is that a mortgage does't go up, because it is the amount of money you borrowed to buy the property, and that transaction in the past doesn't change because prices are changing now, while the rent will likely double itself.

Now, granted, your property taxes are gonna go up, but that's a cost you were going to be paying indirectly as a renter anyways.

Unfortunately not. My insurance refused to cover the lobotomy.

A quote from Treebeard seems appropriate here:

"I am not altogether on anybodyâ(TM)s side, because nobody is altogether on my side, if you understand me...[but] there are some things, of course, whose side I am altogether not on."

You assume that a) the keys will not be leaked by the police and b) that the police will only use them for legitimate law enforcement purposes.

before they're for sale on the dark net? A few months? Less?

That's horrible! RFK Jr. *earned* that post, dammit!

The Professor: "At last, my hour has come!"

"I'd like to see copyright go back to a reasonable time limit, like author's lifetime, or even less."

Copyright in the US was originally 14 years, renewable once for another period of 14 years if the copyright holder was still alive.

What the hell does it launch? Apps? Web Deployments? Space Shuttles?

"BOOTS ARE FOR FEET NOT FOR EAT"

Obviously you've never had a fine Mousse de la Boue dans un Panier de la Pate de Chaussures.

You mean it's not provided by Vault-Tec?