Pardon me for not knowing this, as i live in Russia, but i thought that bold "First World countries" of N.America had gender equality for a while now. Because this vision of "poor fearful helpless woman" being compared to "evil situation-controlling armed man" doesn't really fit in the image of proud modern unbiased citizen of such a society, where gender difference should not make a difference.

Not does appeal to emotion (fear in this case) by all those "get a girlfriend and ask her" claims has its place as an argument in objective discussion about facts in places, which heralding themselves as the leaders of the civilized world.

And also i didn't know that preemptively bashing heads of people you don't like is a valid night stroll activity there. Creepy.

Heh, it's just how Ballmer expresses his repressed admiration. Akin to throwing chairs as a sigh of respect.

While overall it is maybe a truth of the situation.

But this part:

basically says:

"Judges and law enforcers generally are corrupt egomaniacs and will deprive you of any human dignity if:
a) you can't satisfy their voyeuristic urges they think they obliged to along with their state-given power
b) you won't obey their every whim no matter how intrusive and [non]legal it is since they 'interpreted the law' for themselves that they are obliged of your unquestionable obedience
c) you don't fear their mighty government-approved power to destroy your life as puny peon and make you suffer until the day you'll die"

While this may be true it's not OK and should not be accepted as a norm. This won't deal a society any good.
This is not what legal system should be for.

"possession of the password" ? What The Hell ?!
you quoted it yourself:

Password is not an item, you can't "posses" it. Password is a fact you know. So, unless you already have Though Police, it's a complete rape of any idea of Justice and a false premise for any future discussion of where and how you should or shouldn't be forced to reveal it.
But, of course, you also have revealed hypocrisy of the judge in that case.
And "not acknowledging" "possession" of the password, seriously ? How do you "not acknowledge" this made-up "possession" of the password to your own hardware, huh ? I see only two options:
1) "not acknowledging" that this hardware you have in your home or office space is owned or issued by/for you. which you can either deny (which is a blatant lie with all its consequences) or play a "silence game" which will not be easy when they fucking you up emotionally and physically (cell is not proper environment for human being to live, obviously)
2) "not acknowledging" "possession" because there can't be such thing and therefore it's impossible for you to confirm or deny something that can't be

Option #1 is a complete demagogy and mind-fuckery, Option #2 is not accepted by self-righteous hypocrites-enforcers. But it should.

It's not an item to posses. That's it. It's where it should end.

And, people, stop trying to squeeze information-based concepts into matter-based analogies. Information is immaterial, it's maybe good enough to explain something to the person without any abstract thinking capabilities but it's not good enough to be a basis for assumptions, especially, life-crippling ones.

what a load of crap...

i will say only few things:
author wants Internet industry to be like phone industry.
while most phone monopolists and oligopolists are in ISP business too, design and business methods for Internet services are quite different from phone services and even they have to abide that difference. their old methods still work and their old services still actual only because of their size and ubiquitous infrastructure. but even they will have to become pure Internet data pipe some day which they don't like a one bit.

author wants IPv6 to be IPv4, or simply, not to be at all.
yeah, let's just be sitting on our asses until our very death and leave changing the world and ways of living for the next generation... well, we already have generation of doofuses who honestly believe that NAT is a security feature in contrary to the principle of non-routed address spaces which it broke, among other things.

author says that networking enthusiasts ignore IPv6 because of "opensource" DD-WRT.
DD-WRT is quasi-proprietary at best. if you want true opensource and Free Software you go with OpenWRT. and it has full-fledged IPv6 support. even works on my old shitty hardware.

what ? IPv6 is almost the same as IPv4 in network design.
the only significant difference is that with it you can build network by their actual supposed design without a lot of crutches and work-around to conserve address space and to adapt to the scale it was not designed for.

IPv6 is design for present and future.
IPv4 was designed for estranging past and have accreted with ugly hacks. it is inadequate for modern networking and so is the mindset of people who can't comprehend IPv6 and problems it solves.

maybe words "lazy" and "incompetent" are not 100% correct in that aspect but breaking standards and piling up mountains of workarounds for every single issue isn't something that i would call "a job well done" either.

your entire example is like that: each "step" introducing more problems than it "fixes" because it's not fixing anything really. only breaking expected behaviour more for a nasty surprise. should you expect such issues arise in future because of that ? hell yeah!
it would be better in a long run not too pretend to be smarter than the users of your software or the creators of environment (OS/hardware) your software expected to be run in and let them fix/identify underlaying problems properly (like fatal error/wrong behaviour/etc. and power failure/hardware meltdown/etc. in your example).

so, please, don't pretend that this have nothing to do with improper programmer work. be it by the fault of programmers themselves, management or influence of some outside trend, order of things similar to your example is not OK pattern to follow.
and if it is OK for you to leap from standard approaches to "anything goes" as part of your "normal" workflow just because technical, hardware and target systems "requirements change" [or because life is generally hard and doing job is generally tough], maybe word "incompetent", which you yourself have introduced into this thread, is not that out of place after all...
and your own advice goes both ways.

no, "they" take pride in doing their thing with disregard to proprietary requirements (which mostly are in not changing architectural design as long as proprietary authors are unwilling to make changes in the basis of their software which relies on that design. and they mostly always indefinitely are).

well, you can't please everyone by the same thing.

oh, to my shame i've never read it :(

but soon we all, probably, will witness something alike and it will be even gloomier. i myself used to watch "news" TV programs as entertainment instead of usual cartoons in school years, then i got back to cartoons after realizing that those weren't parodies, that all this pretty damn creepy and unsettling stuff is how someone wants masses to see the world. and violence and atrocities are nowhere as ugly as omissions, innuendos and hypocrisy.
no way i'm buying another brainscrewing box in my life. better to watch some cartoons on PC's big monitor with my wife beside.

exactly, they have made usage of "alternate operating systems" and disabling the DRM cumbersome enough for only a few hard-bitten tech maniacs to benefit and only in the extremely unhandy way.
i'm pretty sure that's good enough for those bastards to consider whole ordeal as success, unfortunately.