Agreed on that, unless specifically requested I don't design a non-JS user version of the a site.

Just in case someone replies with 'Then your clients lose all the business of noscript users' .... thats what, MAYBE .5 percent of web users?

How many BSD licensed projects are compiled with a GPL compiler or use GPL libraries?

I don't know if you've noticed , but the real world is racist and sexist. His views may seem to be too much, but what is the alternative you offer? Something along the lines of 'Everyone should learn..' does not count in my book. After all if everyone would learn whats best for them and society people in general would drive much safer.

When up against an entrenched opponent one must use measures just as strong as his opponent.

I wouldn't quite define professional level (or even wonky should be pro level) 3d animation , audio editing and image editing tools as 'easily accessible' . Perhaps it's just my lowly budget speaking.

I made a program with X language the other day , but X is just some easily accessible tool, almost no effort is needed to make a compiler,debugger or documentation for a programming language.

To view history in its true light requires one to not draw us vs them comparisons. Each entity took the actions they took , to get the full lesson from history one must learn from each of them.

  The Japanese tortured and killed soldiers and did worse to citizens.

The US did racial profiling of Japanese as a whole and helped fan the flames of hate against them. Then they put them in camps.

I don't understand the phrase 'automated design process'? why don't we use that same process to write code?

If we could have code as elegant as the cell , dna , etc that would be awesome.

Well while I cannot say for this study since I didn't make it, sand is generally considered air pollution by those who live in deserts. Hence the face wraps / filtering issues on vehicle air-intake systems, etc.

Very well thought out reply, it shows a deeper understanding than most have of how the government has affected the economy over time. I had never thought about how the FDIC insurance has such an enabling effect on banks.

I have to ask , if you think anything that gets in the way of profit is a problem, how do you feel about wall street?

Derivative trading was completely untouched by government regulation or even monitoring until a single company defaulted....and almost brought the cards down the first time. However that was avoided by the government stepping in and telling those who had lost money in derivatives what they had to do.

what do you when all toy manufacturers have lead paint because its cheaper? And cheaper is the path to profit, which shareholders demand.

I lived in Texas for 20+ years and I just want to assure the world we aren't all crazy like the Texas school board. In fact many of us are quite sane.

The original security exploit had to be modified to exploit the current kernel, so unless you expect them to maintain all the old security vulnerability test units....

Simple fact, stuff happens. I would like to see a programmer / admin that can say in the last 6 months they have not made or almost made a major to semi-major mistake. Linux is a big project and they are reacting properly to this by re-adding the fix quickly.

Its more like a very thick line between 'if you want to use Google(tm) apps on your phone it needs to be an approved system so it doesn't tarnish our name' and 'if you don't use our apps you can do anything'.

Considering the phone manufacturers are getting the phone apps for near free prices I think thats a good deal personally.

I would like to be part of one of these projects you speak of. personally I find working long hours due to crunch time boring among other things.

The reality is bad code / practices / half finished things are everywhere.....

Just in commercial software no one can see your source code and call you on it.

Where do you live and work so I can move to a place where people can actually be trained to do things. Do people also follow the traffic laws where you live too?