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Comment Re:Legal/illegal bikes (Score 2) 146

Don't see too many cars on walking paths and sidewalks. The number of e-bikes on walking paths and sidewalks has skyrocketed. It's almost as if someone decided being a pedestrian is a sinful activity, and that every walkway must now be infested with morons on wheels.

Then let me get started on mobility scooters.

Comment Re:Legal/illegal bikes (Score 5, Insightful) 146

I'd just like them banned from walking paths. At least once a day I'm getting some crazy asshole ringing his bell as he comes flying up behind me. I'm not a fan of any kind of bike on walking paths, but at least the people on regular bikes have more control. The worst are probably older riders who often seem like they're barely in control. And the three wheeled ones take up outrageous amounts of space on smaller paths, regularly forcing other users on some of the narrower paths I frequent to get to the side of the road.

It's hard to imagine, short of motor vehicles, anything more hazardous to a pedestrian than some stupid prick on an e-bike.

Comment Re:Locked in (Score 5, Insightful) 80

A pretty significant proportion of the world's IT infrastructure runs on single source products; from Microsoft to Broadcom to Oracle. Believe me, I'm trying to move our office over to open source where I can, but it's no mean feat.

The real lesson, unless the courts start holding licensors accountable, is that a perpetual license may actually be meaningless, no matter what you paid for it.

Comment Re:Have yourself the economy you voted for (Score 2) 201

Too bad. Your shitty political system, with its impotent checks and balances and imperial powers handed over the to the President, made this possible. Your all frogs boiling in the Framers' failed experiment.

I have zero sympathy at this point. Supposedly the Framers put in a really top tier solution to tyranny, but instead it's mainly being used to take out schoolchildren. Everything about your country has become repulsive and self-destructive. I just hope my country can hang on.

Comment Re:Tragedy is not a sufficent reason for liability (Score 2) 112

Judas Priest was sued in 1990 because the parents claimed the band had planted suicidal messages in one of their songs that led to a suicide pact.

Angry grieving parents will often lash out at a convenient external cause, in part so that they don't have to face the reality that the odds are more likely they were an agent in the suicide.

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