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Well, they don't need if they're willing to simply kill prisoners.

Well, to be fair, Russia does actually have to deal with them from time to time unlike the US who nearly never does.

How many really odd deaths of people who had information the NSA wouldn't like getting out before we consider the possibility?

If you "know" that then you're wrong. Success isn't a guarantee even if you work hard. Ask Nikola Tesla.

np, sorry I was too lazy to post any links but I think I gave enough info to find it on the internet.

What a disgusting post. "Pay your dues just like I did". Just because you chose to be exploited with the hope that you'll some day get compensated for it doesn't mean the model is right. And your quip about where the highest quality innovate work comes from is unproven and probably unprovable.

Except there are plenty of places that expect 50+ hours/week and pay 20% less than market at least. Likewise, I'm sure there are jobs that pay market or better and get close to 40 hour weeks.

The market doesn't work as efficiently as you imagine it does, nor could it since companies do all they can to hide what salaries actually are (i.e. imagine trying to buy fruit when nothing had prices, no one would tell you what they paid, and you had to negotiate in private for what they cost you).

I can never remember. I thought it was North Korea but lately I heard it was somewhere in Africa. I only know the US is one of two places and the other isn't part of the developed world so it's not the best company to be keeping.

>We know that people behave better when they're accountable for what they do and say, and worse when they're not.

What you're saying here is that people conform to social norms better when they can be "held accountable" for not doing so. Now imagine some of the unhealthy social norms of the past and how people were "held accountable" for violating them.

Anonymity has a cost, but it is a cost that must be paid or we do not have a free society in any sense of the word.

So if I want to edit some open source project, I would be forced to dick around with vim if the person who made the project wrote it in that? Are you trying to go forwards or backwards?

And actually Sun approached Viacom to license Smalltalk at much less than what they were currently charging. Viacom wouldn't budge so Sun invested in "Oak" that they were already playing with in house.

I want a specific format to our proprietary systems. In C# I can just say "date.Format("dd.MM.YYYY")" or what ever I want.

How do you know Wireshark isn't compromised? Further, MS does phone home all the time to check for updates and so on. If something extra was hidden in there would we know?

Actually people in Europe do care and I would expect something to happen as a result. I don't expect MS to go out of business, but it wouldn't surprise me if they lost certain key projects over the next decade.

Keep in mind this was in Germany and it doesn't read like native English. I.e. you're almost certainly reading a translation.