Daemon Spawn at that.

we need to regulate speech then, exactly the same way we want to regulate firearms.

Only those authorized by the state ought to have speech. Safety First!

(this is largely sarcastic in nature)

The bigger you are, the harder it is to turn the ship in an emergency. See Titanic.

At some point the inertia of change isn't worth it, as you suggested. It is possible, but is it worth it?

The last way to look at this is a way to start the process of diversifying our Tech holdings. Windows, Office, Adobe, VMWare etc. But here is my take, STEAM is showing the way out. We're not there yet, but the tide appears to be turning (to keep the nautical terms going).

Broken clocks are still broken, even when they occasionally tell the time correctly.

Yeah, I've become the old greybeard I used to make fun of. The Tech version of a hero living long enough to become the villain.

Now, get off my lawn! ;-)

Does not matter in this case, if they don't host an online version of it. My impression is that Siemens wants to shut down the project completely.

"We at Siemens have seen how successful SCO was, and think we can be just as successful!"

If Siemens does not re-distribute them, then Siemens does not violate any copyrights on them. Only if Siemens would continue to distribute binaries of OpenRadiuss to customers, they would be in violation.

Or: We eliminated the positions necessary to merge the changes coming from the outside, and we will support the customers in house, if there are any paying customers at all. After that, we will close the project for good.

While in general, I agree with your sentiment, you mentioning the Dunning-Kruger effect is not appropriate here. Dunning and Kruger (1999) does not claim incompetent people would consider themselves above the experts. It's just that incompetent people do no consider themselves as incompetent as they really are, and competent people don't understand how far above the laymen their knowledge is. But both would agree, that the expert knows more about the topic than the layman, and both would sort themselves in the right categories.

You could consider the effect of Dunning and Kruger (1999) as a "mental regression to the mean".

Prussia invented modern schooling to indoctrinate kids, so it's weird to see people complaining about business getting in on the act.

The state needed compliant soldiers and factory workers, so it built schools to create them (and separate schools for turning smarter kids into middle-managers). And most of the West copied that system.

> There use to be news, with editors that would filter out the nonsense

You must be a Boomer. I've been involved in several news stories and most of them were somewhere between nonsense and outright lies.

What you and the people pushing this censorship want is a return those Good Old Days when people were only able to read Government-Approved Nonsense and not whatever nonsense other people posted online.

"OH NOES! PEOPLE AREN'T VOTING FOR THE CANDIDATES WE TELL THEM TO VOTE FOR! OUR DEMOCRACY IS IN DANGER!"

That's basically what this headline is really saying. Their democracy is where they tell us who to vote for and we vote for them... and that's failing hard in a world where people aren't limited to whatever "news" the Telescreen feeds them.

Again, you make my point for me. We know that taking women's rights away will fix the collapsing birth rate. You complain but offer no alternative that hasn't been tried and failed.

It works. Nothing else anyone has tried does.

Like I said, it won't happen before liberal society collapses and you just demonstrated why.

It's been tried and doesn't work. Heck, Britain's fertility rate was several times higher when the masses lived in slums and worked in mills until they died in an accident or from respiratory illness.

If you want to increase birth rates you need to stop educating girls beyond what's required to be a mother. But no liberal country can do that so they will die out instead.