You cannot moderate out all outrage inducing stuff without turning your conversation into an echo chamber where actual discussion literally isn't allowed, only parroting the moderators' opinions. The reason for that is that there is no possible objective definition of outrage. What outrages you is simple, factual truth to someone else, and what outrages them is the center of your world view and beyond question. That is human nature.

The internet has always reflected this reality, even before it was opened up to the public, because the internet reflects people, and people are like that. They're all crazy in some way or another, they're all assholes at some point, and they're all idiots more often than not. Who is which at the moment depends on who you ask, and it's very difficult to ask anyone but yourself.

Become? When was it not? The only thing that changed is that technology has made the cheaper.

"If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts; if you have the law on your side, pound the law; if you have neither the facts nor the law, pound the table."

All its posts are on topic, if the topic is broken bots spewing nonsense.

In the US, strict copyright law serves huge corporations. In the EU, strict copyright law serves to screw huge corporations.

I once saw a warning on our main server that said "We recommend you not run this function even if we told you to."

I agree. There are jurisdictions that don't require the consent of everyone to record private conversations, but are none that don't require the consent of anyone.

Their defense, of course, would be "you gave consent in the click wrap TOS you didn't read," but such abusive terms have been declared unconscionable before.

All a pipe dream, though, regardless of who is in the White House or controls Congress.

At which point, it will probably look for alternate open WiFi that's not restricted.

Best to not buy a smart TV at all.

And? Whether or not there's some other element involved doesn't change the fact that the other element alone isn't enough. It also needs the building blocks.

Good start.

But then you completely miss the point. This isn't about "life came from space," this is about "the building blocks of life came from space." There's a difference, whether you can understand it or not.

Apple has died before, to the point of having to let Microsoft bail them out. Most large companies go through up and down cycles. Sometimes, those cycles yo-yo wildly, even to the point of the down cycle killing the company for real.

Odds are, however, that regardless of how much damage this does, they'll bounce back again. And, eventually, take a dive again. Lather, rinse, repeat, ad nauseum.

And that pretty much sums up Wikipedia. A popularity contest for factoids, actual facts are irrelevant by policy.

If it actually works as claimed, it would have to pay less because the ads you see are more relevant to the search, which means fewer ads for random shit like you get now.

Of course, most of those ads will be made up slop.

And when the threats and stalking start, and they will, as the people behind this intend, there should be capital charges followed by executions for treason or insurbordination.

It does if the button in question is the on/off switch of the power strip it's plugged into.