This all seems to argue for sticking with the DNS of small local ISPs rather concentrating this mostly into one company's hands. Or am I interpreting things wrongly here?

It's the Internet, specifically the World Wide Web; once it's up, anyone is free to link to it or from it. You don't need my permission, but please, be my guest.

Point taken, but insofar as a video game sets itself up to portray combat in a vaguely realistic way, I think it follows that they should do this.

Death makes us all equal.

I can't speak for other countries military policy, but in the US, the policy was keep women out of combat positions until rather recently.

Thanks!

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words and can demolish huge mountains of excuses and rationalizations.

"Why Female Soldiers Were Finally Added to Call of Duty's Multiplayer"

Because all you can offer me is vague anecdote without a single shred of physical evidence or any other form of corroboration. I don't need to prove that fairies don't exist to be reasonably sure none exist in my back yard. I don't need to prove there isn't a teapot out in orbit between Jupiter and Mars to be…

This person was preaching to me. Don't deny that and don't make disingenuous comparisons between science and religion.

So in other words you're veiling the mythology of the New Testament in the terms of computer Jargon.

Some men. As a dude and a computer nerd, I believe every word of Ada Lovelace's story. Maybe they could do a double feature, The Ada Lovelace story and the Grace Hopper story?

I realize this article is primarily satire and it's not really about birth rates at all but, frankly, I think declining birth rates in post-industrial countries are a good thing for the world and for the environment.

This is months too late, but, as a semi-serious question:

I'm just annoyed that I missed the robot version of this.

Wow, another ancient thread being revived from death! I guess this is what the new Kinja system portends from now on.

Well, since this thread is nearly a year old and I've pretty much said what I wanted to say about it, I've got nothing else to say so, I'm backing out now.

If the government, never mind NASA, kept the royalties to half the stuff it's funded the invention of, it would be a significant revenue stream. But at the same time, the private sector would have suffered without that technology. This is one of the ways the government subsidizes a vital private sector. And I think…

Since this is a staggeringly old thread, frankly, I've lost interest in it. I apologize but I'm not really interested in discussing this further.

People said the Soviet Union would never fall. But it did. Nothing lasts forever.