Tomte

I tried to improve a very small section, about six or seven sentences. It was clearly wrong, I had lots of citations, but they preferred a wrong "my" article to a better "our article&qu…

> editors have gotten into turf wars over articles they feel some sense of ownership over That's exactly what killed my one and only attempt to substantially improve an article (not just typo-…

I wish German civil law had something like your discovery process. Over here the claimant probably would not be able to peek into the defendant's stuff. Especially if he can't specifically c…

Gutmann's cryptlib (if you stick to the high-level API, which is documented as such). It's "anciently conservative" (not based on fancy new ciphers, you can like it or not), by a c…

No, Kurzarbeit ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_time ) was one preeminent mechanism saving our economy. Other countries without that mechanism suffered much more. In Germany we…

> Not sure if there are companies that forbid it, Today probably most companies disallow any private web surfing. Inofficially it is often tolerated if you don't overdo it. > and if that wo…

> IMO, when it comes to what you can do with your own property, the assumption should be legal by default It is. You may do almost anything with your property. It just happens that renting out is o…

> Should we be prohibited from lending our physical books to other people just because publishers would rather we didn't? No, but I haven't seen examples of negative externalities in that…

He is a writer. He writes articles. That's an honourable profession.

1. So when Facebook raises or lifts those limits you're dead. 2. So when Facebook pushes this feature a little bit more you're dead. Sounds awfully risky to me, without a big upside.

The "pro helmet side" in Internet forums does not have "budgets".

> The point is, helmets and cycling create flame wars The point is, you are very much involved in creating flame wars by labelling the pro side as people who only have their superstitial, anecdotal…

> To clarify I mean that I don't believe it adds much to the corpus of information about domestic and civil rights infractions. As a foreigner, I'm actually more interested in non-domes…

Even if those societal effects were true (there are studies for both sides, and especially the helmet opponents are usually very outspoken and even rude, to the point that they lose credibility), the …

If it's common usage, it's correct.

Your argument that bits should be copyable without restrictions is independent from the fact that these bits were not on her local hard drive.

> In the digital world, any limitations on copying bits are akin to virtual restraints and locking information away. Jennifer Lawrence might disagree with your laissez faire attitude.

There was a time when HP believed it was a big supertanker, impossible to steer. So they split up. Agilent was born. Shortly after that a new CEO believed, HP needed to be bigger. So they bought Compa…

> However, places are limited and they are given out based on your GPA That's mostly a thing of the past and almost only applicable to human medicine anymore. Today universities are free to se…

> I don't remember any default usenet groups in nn, tin, gnus The news protocol specifically included a recommendation mechanism for "default subscribed groups", so that a news admin…

Maybe you should have read what I wrote. I certainly do not advocate conserving energy no matter the cost. I'm saying that at the present there is no economic incentive for consumers to save elec…