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Careface.


Careface. If you don't like the laws here, GTFO of the country.


I presume you're directing this at all of the domestic enemies of the Constitution working for various levels of government, who treat the highest law of the land as an inconvenience that must be circumvented and eroded away.


To regard the Constitution as "the highest law of the land" is, at this point in the history of the United States, somewhere between naïve and just plain silly.

The actual highest law of the land is that made by Supreme Court fiat, when they rule on the cases which they choose to hear, and whose rulings no man may practicably gainsay. Below that there are many levels of law, arranged in the sort of untidy and inter-referential tangle which any software engineer might expect out of a system that's been being patched and extended for two centuries straight; if we take the increasingly vestigial federal/state/local distinction as our demarcation, Congress occupies much of the lower half of the upper third. And, of course, at every level, and just as at all other times and places throughout the entire broad span of human history, the basic rule is that what's legal is what you get away with.

Is this how the matter ought to be? Perhaps, and perhaps not; I've seen arguments both ways. But, either way, this is how the matter is.


tl;dr Windows 8 is a piece of crap.


Your face doesn't contribute anything worthwhile to the discussion.


Calling the Kettle Black


Careface.


"There was no investigation." - Julie Ann Horvath

https://twitter.com/nrrrdcore/status/458342995469688833


haters gon hate


Couldn't turn down $2 billion :)


And free publicity, now everyone is gonna hear about Oculus. This is truly a good news, I don't see why people are so eager to hate on this acquisition.


Are you guessing the price or did you read it somewhere?


"... for a total of approximately $2 billion. This includes $400 million in cash and 23.1 million shares of Facebook common stock (valued at $1.6 billion based on the average closing price of the 20 trading days preceding March 21, 2014 of $69.35 per share). The agreement also provides for an additional $300 million earn-out in cash and stock based on the achievement of certain milestones."

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/facebook-to-acquire-...


TechCrunch are reporting $2 billion, of which $400 million was cash:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/25/facebook-to-buy-oculus-vr-m...



tl;dr - I'm scared. Don't sue us too please.


Did you even read the blog post? He's all but daring them to sue him. I congratulate him for taking a stand -- if all of us did the same, this broken software patent business would be much less of a problem, and only worst socially-outcast patent trolls would bother suing anyone.


If we were scared, we wouldn't have written it.


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