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Comment Re:Why Perl? (Score 1) 58

If only we could ensure benevolence, benevolent dictatorships would be the best way to govern the world.
Python has a benevolent dictator and I love it and do what I'm told, mostly.
I happily left the crazy anarchy of Perl for Python.
C++ has a personal schizophrenic Nazi who is getting crazier and crazier with age.

Comment Re:Go Ahead (Score 1) 15

Interesting points about why batteries lose, that I had not even thought about.

But you miss the point that we don't have to get rid of every last ICE to save the world from global warming.
There will always be a few selfish people, we just have to tax them so they pay to remove more carbon than they generate.
It is high time governments put these taxes in place, but of course that will be unpopular among the stupid people, so is not happening.

Whether civilization survive comes down to whether there are more clever people than stupid people.
It's not looking good so far...

Comment Well done, copyright cartel (Score 3, Insightful) 35

Congratulations, copyright cartel, on another heavy-handed action to support outrageous copytight terms.

So, what's the new URL ?

Pirating is morally justified until we get a 5 year copyright term, that does what copyright is meant to do - encourage creation.

Comment Re:Bandwidth is no longer scarce (Score 1) 96

I am not sure if you are confused or being disingenuous.

You wrote:
"Who specifically is being harmed by the lack of net neutrality?"
Which is answered by the comment you replied to:
"Except that removing net neutrality allows ISPs to CREATE that scarcity, by slowing resources they want to make you pay more for."

You wrote:
"There is no law that mandates or even references net neutrality, so I'm not sure what you're saying about the law."
And I was replying to your comment:
"There are legitimate reasons to oppose net neutrality laws, [...] " to point how obviously tenuous your objections were.
And that should have been pretty obvious.

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