This report is probably the most challenging to science, as the level of cognitive strength needed to produce it, must have been in the negative.

Same category as "Water still wet! Outrage ensures!"

This has been the status quo since Larry started.

Ok, so the 2+2=5 crowd is now trying to run the software off the same cliff as everything else they have touched.

I don't care if someone is naked, has 8 arms, is green, or has a soft spot for sleeping with vegetables... if they produce great stuff that I would use so what? I'm never going to be as racist, sexist, or phobe the "woke" crowd prove themselves to be, time and time again.

The soft-skinned weiners of the no-good social "sciences" are not to be given any room to in any way try to run the functioning good western liberal democracy that has allowed them to voice their pitiful grievances because they have existential angst based in them feeling guilty about having a good life.

Go out in the world and help the people that are TRULY oppressed instead. Perhaps they could start by living in another country to realize how spoiled they are!

So NO, just NO!

Oh well... it's not like this has been tried before and failed miserably... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik... I would suggest that things like trust in and maintenance of the generated code may bring a huge headache... It will be a new niche solution but I pity the fools going down this route as it will cost them dearly! But hey, I've been wrong before and we need to expand the masses that program for a living so bring it on... I won't be joining you!

The Android app is more or less useless as it always misses the last word when using this function... and usually, the last word is kind of important in a sentence... ;-) And it does this in ALL languages so it is a mess! Google has known about this since mid-November but still hasn't done anything about it!

Yes, please!

The real question is why the ordinary /.:er would ever want to read something like this ill-conceived opinion piece, that we should all repent and lie down to die in the name of the nature-killing shame we all should embrace...

Yes, we have a major problem, but throwing out the kid with the bathwater is ever more stupid. I'm not surprised though, based on the feeling-based soft-brained kind of people released out into the wild nowadays from a school near you...

It is exactly like the run-of-the-mill eco-fascists who tell us all to stop eating anything that has anything to do with the fauna... but failing to realize that it, in itself, would be the sole cause of a killing spree of billions of animals that they want to protect... and that they want to accept...

Until these people can hold two different thoughts in their "conscious" brains at the same time I won't listen to any of these alarmists that want to plunge the earth into a new dark age just because they have "lebensangst" for being privileged little bastards born with a silver spoon in all their respective bodily orifices...

Life was so much simpler when the angst-ridden college crowd went full Emo and committed suicide. Now they commit extended assisted suicide by government policy...

Can we now please get our heads out of our collective buts and start solving things instead of whining about it, scoring points with our panic-buddies..?

You don't

• want to pay what a service is worth!
• want to wait for something to be delivered!
• want to use that year old phone/tablet/pc/... any longer!
• want to pay for recycling!
• ...

See the common thing about all these facts?

It is your choices that is the problem!

Stop blaming others and take responsibility for your own actions!

You know that the US of A stops at the border, right?

What you think of other countries are at most an opinion that the rest of the world couldn't care less about.

We've chosen systems that work, like this Canadian system, based solely on how bad the US handles itself.

It is like seeing that poor drunk uncle that always makes a fool of himself at every party trying to convince someone that he hasn't a drinking problem and if just he could run everything it would all be so much better.

Well... NO!

I just had to comment on the fact that neither Hammurabi nor Moses used English... :-P

I would probably look into German, French or even Hebrew if you want to get down history lane on the etymology... Perhaps Google Translate would be a good starting point?

Apparently, you don't understand how the tax system work in Sweden... If you think that you only think that your tax is paid on your part of your salary... Must be the result of the flawed school-system or old-school socialist indoctrination I suppose.

So as a break down on that 18000 kr you "don't" pay taxes on looks like this:

You actually earn 18000 kr + 5600 kr = 23600 kr but the last part is withheld and hidden by the state as tax your employer pays. So even there you pay 24% tax... Sorry to rain on your parade!

Of those 18000 you "don't" pay tax on you then pay 25% in sales tax and so forth...

If you save what small sum you have left you then have to pay 22% tax on the interest...

If you think that your tax is "zero" you should perhaps read up on the real facts!

https://www.ekonomifakta.se/ (In Swedish but I think you can manage)

Sorry but this is not true by any means. I'm living under the so-called social democracy of Sweden. Which is a joke as our social welfare is based on a lie... a big lie!

It is nothing but a Ponzi-scheme on a country scale and as soon as something goes horribly wrong, as it often does, we only raise taxes to cover the huge holes in the budget. The economy is only working if all current costs including pensions etc are paid through the taxes of the workers and they are getting fewer by the minute. That gives us a tax pressure of about 76%... Yes, 76 cents of every dollar you earn is taken by the state in taxes, direct or indirect. More than 50% of the working population is working for the state. So it is fewer than 25% that has to carry the weight of the whole country. Wonderful? It is foul and nasty!

The state also run our lives completely by first take all your money and then give it back as welfare but only if you are nice and a good citizen that votes for the right party.

So if you fancy a country where free speech is based on the decisions of a "benevolent" state, the whole financial system is run by the state, the school system is in shambles and the healthcare is a joke with people dying in the queues to their hopefully life-saving operations...

Well, if that is your view of a "good" society you can have it. We are sick and tired of it and by the 9th of September, after our general election, we will get rid of this GDR-like state.

This news if any, proves to me, that the credibility that Slashdot has had fÃr years in the most varied of fields are now slipping significantly into crap-land..

It is almost so bad that I will stop reading Slashdot for good, based on the complete "junk science" that you give credibility by headlining it in this way.

Shame on you and the money grabbing hands you've got and this from a long, seriously long, time reader that is now fed up!

So this is where the Patent Trolls got their business model from.

Now when the Patents aren't as lucrative as it used to be I wonder if you can't find the same actors in these suits...

It is just disgusting that you can earn your living on the back of creative people just by suing everybody that may have come in contact with the results of these creative souls labour...

Should have wished that for a New Years resolution...

I know it is Christmas but hey, this is something that is:
a) Not news!
b) Seriously NOT NEWS!
c) Yikes, when will you ever learn!

Selling ads through Click Bait is probably as old as the Internet itself (imagining Vint Cerf standing with a UUCP connection to connect to that document claiming to fix the hosts-file problem) but I thought that Slashdot was above this... apparently not!

Merry Christmas to you all!