This was enjoyable. Iâ(TM)d give a mod point if I had any.

This government policy seems totally fine.

Sounds like sarcasm, but hard to tell why. Please present your case, if you have one.

>> Anarchy never existed in the history of mankind, anything we call "anarchy" is just the rule of the strongest. This is patently untrue. Anarchist style collectives have existed quite successfully. Please see David Graeberâ(TM)s Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology for an erudite exploration of this topic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

>> The problems with nuclear are social Very true. They are also political. How long until an ultra laissez-faire government completely guts nuclear regulation laws? I wish I had mod points to give you. The points of view in this post are very needed on the this site.

I bought the Tailwind Q3 controller a few months back and it's been great for our two door openers (which are LiftMasters from 1998!). HomeKit support is built in. Customer support from them has been great, often the owner himself responds to questions. They also offer a $20 sensor to enable a geofence to auto-open/close the doors, which HomeKit doesn't support on its own. Personal service, quality tech. Really hope they don't get bought by some stupid monopoly.

What does one have at all to do with the other?

So long as there is something to prevent the virus from invading an organism, it's effective. Paper offers resistance to motion. Viruses are vanishingly small. It's completely reasonable to think a paper barrier lowers the risk of transmission.

Perhaps your sarcasm exposes some lazy thinking on your part.

It was a learning experience for me too, so thank you for initiating it. To your original point, Australia is crazy rife with poisonous critters, land and sea.

What other country has native poisonous mammals?

Pardon the pedantic response, but this is slashdot...

Many types of shrews native to Europe and North America are venomous. Southwest Asia even harbors a venomous monkey.

And, of course, bats are mammals and venomous species exist outside Australia.

Now, somebody please pass a Foster's...

These idiots used to be buried in the larger bulk of humanity, and they swept the floors and stocked the shelves and weren't allowed to operate machinery and the small number of people who could hear their dumb ideas could easily mock them into silence...And not a gleam of reality ever intrudes to disrupt their little balls of fear and loathing and their vast gulf of misunderstanding.

Hey man, scale back the social Darwinism. You're sounding a lot like a rich slaveholder promoting the "mudsill" theory in the 1850s.

I wonder where in your own past you were made to feel stupid, and still have repressed pain and rage around it.

That is not what this bill proposes. The slashdot headline is wrong. Quote from the article:

>>The bill contains a provision that would prohibit Apple, for example, from restricting or impeding iPhone users from uninstalling apps that have been pre-installed, but this provision doesnâ(TM)t prohibit Apple from pre-installing apps in the first place.

People please read the article headline before posting and commenting. Apple is NOT prohibited from pre installing their apps. They would be prohibited from disallowing UNinstalling their apps. The article spells this out very clearly:

>>The bill contains a provision that would prohibit Apple, for example, from restricting or impeding iPhone users from uninstalling apps that have been pre-installed, but this provision doesnâ(TM)t prohibit Apple from pre-installing apps in the first place.

Government ought to absolutely step in when so many workers are stuck in a cycle of poverty without opportunity for upward mobility due to allowances of abusive corporate behavior like the parent post was suggesting. The worker does not get to choose when there is no choice.

Thank you for the links, particularly your signature.

We are down right barbaric, not to mention that our own space program(USA) has almost taken a giant leap backwards, with all of the budget cuts! Unless we are to become slaves/food/resources, they would likely have zero interest in us IMHO.

That doesnâ(TM)t make any sense. Why wouldnâ(TM)t space aliens be interested in us, perhaps even more so because of our history of barbarism? Particularly given the heroism that naturally arises in such a world.

We may not all be that interesting, but the aliens (not saying they exist) might be quite impressed with the likes of Hitler and Ghandi and how the rest of us deal with them. If some humans get super jazzed over whatâ(TM)s going on in a petri dish, it seems totally reasonable that some aliens would really dig the study of âoelowerâ life forms like humans.

...when the wheels fall off, you can buy a loaf of beard and some bullets for some gold

Dang you'd have to be really hungry. But at least now we know Richard Stallman won't starve.