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Do you think it was necessary to be this hostile?

The poster didn't claim to be an American and even if they are American, there are lots of different opinions on what things are important to spend time on and not everyone agrees that it's following the news or reading up on various ways places structure their government.

This may be the dream but is not and has not been the reality of rooting phones and flashing them with custom software.

It's ugly, it's error-prone, and the software that attempts to simplify it doesn't and is of unknown trustworthiness. A very unhappy path.

Absolutely not a reasonable option for the typical user, and an even less reasonable expectation that they should do it or should have known to.

Another way to approach interacting with other humans is to understand that the law only describes minimum expectations and isn't a replacement for ethics or common decency.

You can use all the tools of the law to disadvantage others but word will get around that you're a dirty dealer and it'll be their privilege to not do business with you anymore.

I went through a similar change from my sparkier first years of driving as a teen and early twenty something to now.

The motivation incidentally wasn't to improve economy or avoid citations. It was mostly to reduce the frustration of feeling like I was constantly being impeded by others who weren't interested in driving as aggressively as I had been, and partially an increased interest in safety.

It worked. Driving is much less stressful with cruise control.

What I find especially bothersome is that their resolution has, in practice, only cost their victims more.

Because the time needed to fill out that form and provide the documents will have been worth more than the payout, if one ever comes, for just about anyone who bothered to do it.

Not at all satisfactory.

This particular example is an added expense but doesn't strike me as an extraordinary one, and brings with it many administrative savings to do with applications, enrollments, grading, payments, educational resources, and so on.

These are things that would have required more physical space and more personnel in the past. Schools have transitioned a lot to a more self-service model but it has not translated into savings for students or their families as far as I can tell.

There certainly would be more murders if concrete deterrents were relaxed or eliminated. We definitely do not rely on the honor system to keep murder rates in check.

In any case, someone raising questions about emergent behavior in the general population shouldn't invite questions about that specific person's imminent ethical lapse.

Trying to address a problem like this one by placing the responsibility squarely on end consumers seems like a mistake. There are too many of them in too many places and their behavior is harder to regulate.

Placing the cost of disposal or pollution (best that regulators can assess that) upon the producers seems at first glance to create many of the right incentives, such as improving packaging, reducing waste, increasing recycling, more effective disposal, and modifying consumer behavior in the only way that seems to be universally understood: the price of goods.

This is nearly the opposite of what I would want from HTML or the web.

A fixed layout is not going to work for all devices.

Such a choice is tantamount to deciding that some classes of devices are not going to be supported, which may be a reasonable choice but better to make good choices in the HTML and CSS and let the devices try to make something usable of it rather than giving them a fixed window into a layout intended for another.

How does this use case differ from (legal) distributed file sharing, like Bittorrent, which people do at home all the time?

Sure, but it's not conventionally what is called "uptime", an uninterrupted period in a normal and responsive state. Voyager has had faults and been rebooted. In any other situation that I'm aware of, you'd have to say that uptime started over or that uptime is <100%.

I still get Corelle branded dishes, like you see at Walmart these days. I haven't broken one yet; they're remarkably durable compared to your usual ceramic pieces. That they're thin and light and a little translucent like china is just icing on the cake.

I like them a lot. Can't say how they compare to the Corelle of old but they're definitely solid.

Claims like this have been made from older generations to the younger and about every language since recording began. They were once made in Latin about a degenerate bastardization that eventually became French. Naturally, the French have in turn become rather protective.

Speakers are entitled to "abuse" their language if they want to. It is theirs.

I'd say that's a pretty uncharitable reading of my comment! That wasn't intended, to be clear.