AT&T tried to buy T-Mobile but was shut down on antitrust concerns. AT&T had to pay a $3 billion breakup fee to T-Mobile because the deal fell through.
Twice before, Sprint and T-Mobile have tried to merge. The sticking point was not antitrust concerns but how much control SoftBank would have over the unified company.
Sprint is going away sooner or later. It's extremely unlikely that they're going to get their act together enough to suddenly boost their subscriber count enough to remain competitive. It's either merge with T-Mobile now or get sold off in a bankruptcy auction later. The merger is the best outcome for consumers.
Though you mention a good point about LEO satellites. SpaceX has initial approval for its 4000+ satellite constellation. It just might allow entrants (or even SpaceX) to offer a competitive, all-data service and not have to worry much about towers.
He is so dumb he managed to end the Korean war today.
Trump had nothing to do with it, and there's still no peace treaty signed. The two Koreas agreed that they should end the war and pledged to work toward it, but that's happened before and they're a long way from an actual treaty.
Unemployment at historic lows.
No, it's at 17-year lows. In 2000, the unemployment rate reached a record low of 3.8% in April, and had a four-month run of 3.9% from September to December.
Unemployment rates for blacks and Latinos are at record lows, but even then only by a tenth of a percent. For blacks, December 2017 has a 6.8% rate and February and March 2018 saw rates of 6.9% each. Compare to April 2000 when it was 7.0%. For Latinos, the record low of 4.8% was first achieved in October 2006 and duplicated in June, October, and November 2017.
ISIS defeated.
Egypt, Syria, and Iraq would likely disagree. Egypt is dealing with ISIS in the Sinai Peninsula, Syria is still dealing with remnants, and Iraq is back to fighting them after some of the groups that fled Raqqa tried to take territory in Iraq again. Groups following or inspired by ISIS are still operating in Afghanistan, Libya, Nigeria, and the Philippines, and may be active in Pakistan, Chad, and Tunisia as well.
Syria likely to not use chemical weapons on their people again.
They said that after the first time he used cruise missiles after a chemical weapons attack, and that one actually did damage to real infrastructure and destroyed some aircraft. Many more chemical attacks happened.
Tax cuts for middle class.
Most people are only taking home a few extra dollars per week, and while a few companies have handed out raises and bonuses, they are by far the exception. Some of the bonuses, like those handed out by AT&T, were planned long before the tax cut was passed but played up as being made possible by it. Those bonuses totaled $200 million for 200,000 employees. Compare that to the $29.5 billion in profit it posted in 2017. They were crowing about sending 0.7% of their profits to the employees. Meanwhile, compensation for the top five executives in 2017 was more than $74 million.
I'll take a double helping of stupidity if we get results like that.
The results so far are paper thin. It wouldn't take much to knock them down. Trump can do that by pushing a trade war, something he seems intent on doing. Even withdrawing from the Iran nuclear treaty could start stacking the deck against the economy given the significant sales that companies like Boeing have lined up with Tehran.
Marriage is deeply enshrined in wide-ranging parts of law. Spouses get presumptive rights for hospital access and medical decisions and are generally first to receive the estate of the deceased when there's no will. Taking the state out of marriage would greatly complicate all of that: hospitals would have to see a copy of a notarized contract between two people to determine if someone is allowed to see the patient or make decisions, and already complex intestate deaths would be forced into the courts.
Those are just the two immediate issues that come to mind. There are plenty of others that would have effects ranging from weak (getting rid of tax benefits for married couples) to significant (survivor of a relationship not getting Social Security Survivor Benefits).
Sure, 40% of first marriages end in divorce, but that means that 60% end in the death of a spouse. Average marriage lengths may be under a decade, but that includes second and later marriages, which are even less successful. Median marriage lengths for first marriages are much longer; I've seen suggestions of 40+ years but can't find a reliable source, but the US Census Bureau did a study published in 2009 that found more than half of people first married between 1960 and 1964 reached their 40th anniversary. Similar numbers reached their 35th, 30th, 25th, and 20th anniversaries in the following five-year groups. It seems that if a first marriage, at least, can get past 10 years or so, it tends to hold on pretty well.
I've been hearing this since the early 1990s. They still can't crack more than a few percentage points in any national poll, even the ones asking who they'd *like* to vote for rather than who they *plan* to vote for. I don't see them doing all that well in other countries, either, even those that have a half-dozen or more parties in the legislative bodies.
Those fortunes relied on things like half-page and full-page ads, in some ways analogous to the same thing we have now in that the content could have been one page forward but to get to the content, you have to go through the ad. The same is only barely tolerated now online, but that tolerance is declining as they become more frequent.
What made them tolerable in the newspaper era was that most entities couldn't afford those ads, so they were less common. Someone doing that had something that probably interested a sizable portion of the readership. Now, it just takes a bit of code to cover the entire page.
Some banks can be a giant PITA about it. A few years ago, I got a check for an account at Wells Fargo and, because I needed the money right then and didn't have the same amount of cash in my account, I went to cash it at the local Wells Fargo. They wanted ID (of course), but they also wanted thumbprints and a $5 service charge for cashing the check drawn on an account at their bank. Because I needed the cash, I did it, but it was one of a long string of issues that made me despise them.
Now, I just use the app on my phone to deposit most checks I get. It's kind of tedious, but it's not horrible. If I know I'm going to be near my bank, I'll deposit them there just so they're not laying around my office for a couple of weeks while I make sure the deposit goes through.
On the contrary, most small business that I see starting up are going cashless. This includes restaurants, a cheese shop, and a bakery. The hassle of storing, protecting, counting, and depositing cash are worth less than the potential lost sales. Almost everyone uses plastic now, and even the rare person who prefers cash usually has plastic to fall back on. Stores don't have to do much other than sell product and have the money deposited automatically into their accounts. The data feeds into accounting software automatically, further reducing their workload.
Network outages still occur, but are less of a factor as networks improve. It's been a long time since I've seen a down network in any of my travels. In those times, stores have to make a choice if the customer has been consumed the product, like at a restaurant. I imagine many of them will just ask people to pay the next time, trusting them to do so. Not all will, but enough will that the hit won't be too bad. They can also stop taking orders if they know that the network will be down for a while. Most stores can take a couple of hours of downtime, and those that can't weren't just on the cusp of making enough money to survive.
The warrant is no longer valid so what's the point of prosecuting Assange for bail jumping?
Because bail jumping is a separate offense. Letting one person skip bail until the prosecution loses interest (or critical witnesses become unreliable or unavailable) makes it far more likely that others will as well.
It's far easier to extradite to the US from the UK than just about anywhere else (even factoring in the Lauri Love decision), which made his claims about Sweden really weird.
They'd charge him with bail jumping, for which he now has an outstanding warrant that has been upheld by the courts at least twice. He'd go to jail, serve some portion of the time (maximum of either six months or one year, depending on circumstances), and then get deported to a nation where he holds citizenship, which would be either Australia (where he was born) or Ecuador (which gave him citizenship recently).
The ruling came down yesterday. No appeal is filed and heard that fast absent extremely exigent circumstances, and this doesn't qualify. At this point, the defendants (listed below) can choose to appeal and have the resources to do so, and given the effect of such a ruling, I'm sure they are doing just that.
Defendants:
Boston Globe Media Partners, Inc. Breitbart News Network, Llc Gannett Company, Inc. Heavy, Inc. Herald Media, Inc., New England Sports Network, Inc. Time, Inc. Vox Media, Inc. Yahoo, Inc.
Trial court judges do not have remotely the power that you ascribe. These kinds of rulings do not have precedence. Precedence requires response from the appellate courts. In fact, these kinds of rulings are the very reason that appeals courts exist: to review the case and ensure that the law was properly applied.
This came from a bad reading of the law. It happens. Even the best judges screw up sometimes. Then appeals happen and the rulings get overturned and remanded. The judge issues a new ruling, or carries out a new trial if necessary. If the judge rules the same way, the appeals court has the ability to overturn and remand it again. I've seen a couple of appellate decisions that remand with fairly clear instructions that the judge shall rule in a specific manner. If there's continued refusal, attorneys can seek recusal through various means.
Judges rarely try to force issues, though, because just as plaintiffs and defendants don't want to piss off the judge, judges don't want to piss off the appellate courts. It looks bad for them at review, can stymie their chances at an appellate position of their own, and, from a practical matter, can lead the appeals court to sigh and say, "Oh, this judge again," and go in with closed minds. When it gets remanded *again*, they still have to deal with it.
Judges get qualified immunity because without it, no one would want to do the job and the whole system would come to a halt. They have to screw up really badly--and this doesn't come close to that--to have any form of punishment levied.
Images uploaded to social media are provided under a non-exclusive agreement that the platform can copy and display it within their own framework. That framework extends to embedding because it's part of the structure.
That the original uploader didn't have the right to upload it isn't (or shouldn't be, given this case) on Twitter or any other platform. It's on the person that uploaded it. To require social media--or any other distribution platform--to confirm rights prior to accepting a submission would end every hosted service, not just social media. Web hosting providers could no longer safely operate due to the risk that their customers might upload some content to which they don't have rights.
The DMCA has plenty of flaws, but the safe harbor provision is a cornerstone of how the web works.
I've been doing it that way since some time in elementary school, maybe around 4th or 5th grade when we learned multiplying large numbers. I call it left to right because I'm multiplying the left-most column first, then move right. Most people would multiply it this way on paper:
1
4
56
x27 ----
1
392 112 ---- 1512
This is the common way taught in schools, or at least US schools (and I presume at least some foreign schools, as I've seen some people educated in other countries do it the same way.) The single digits represent carries. Operations move from right to left. (The formatting is messed up a bit, but I tried it with the code tags and it was worse in preview. Should still be recognizable.)
That depends on the methods. Most people do large numbers on paper from right to left, but I can do it in my head in a sort of left to right blocking method. Take 56 * 27. I break that into the following steps:
Parties have enormous power under the First Amendment (right to free assembly) to determine how their party works. The DNC and RNC have vastly different primary rules and are allowed to as current interpretations of the First Amendment do not allow the government to interfere much with them.
These rules are also not used that often so even ideas meant to improve things don't get much testing. Public selection of candidates for major parties has only been around since the early 1970s, first getting some use in the 1972 election, so they've only been used about a dozen times. That's including incumbent primaries, though, so it's even fewer for each party.
In the case of Democrats, Sanders had a huge hurdle to get past with the superdelegates backing Clinton from the start, putting him at a distinct disadvantage before the first vote was cast. The DNC assigns delegates based on election results, so a candidate getting 60% of the vote in a two-person race will get 60% of the delegates.
Republicans do things differently, leaving it up to states how to apportion delegates. Some go winner-takes-all, some do proportional, some do proportional with floors. On top of that, additional delegates are assigned to a state that voted for the last Republican presidential candidate or has elected positions held by Republicans or a majority of Republicans.
And those are heavily simplified versions, as there are a ton of other caveats. There are other important bits, but one factor that the parties seem to work together on is primary scheduling. This is why Iowa goes first and other states go in weird orders. A state that violates a party's earliest allowed date can be ignored by the party. It's perfectly legal to do so, as freedom of association means that the parties can exclude anyone they want.
It's an ugly mess, but fixing it might get uglier.
No, it's not. Other people put up his bail, a total of 93,500 pounds, to secure his bail. He promised to appear in court. Every level went against him. He realized he was almost certainly going to be extradited, and fled. Those people are out the bail money, and he's actively committed an offense.
LastPass handled their vulnerabilities correctly by not only engaging the researcher, but by also explaining publicly how they were fixing it, providing the timelines, and thanking Tavis Ormandy for his work.
KISS on Linux has been broken for a long time. As soon as the GUIs started coming into play, Linux lost KISS. Web, email, and database servers also are mostly past the KISS phase. Sure, there are the classic command-line utilities that still sit in that space, but vi and (especially) emacs don't fit in, nor have they in a very, very long time. Even the shells have grown well beyond the KISS realm.
It's a nice principle to hold onto when you can, but it's not the answer for every situation. Sometimes tying together a dozen things to get what one can do is possible, but that itself moves away from simple. Necessary complexity is where Linux has been for some time.
But typefaces are centuries old technology. It's a problem that has been solved and well studies. The problems that a typeface solves are not problems that change rapidly. A 19th century typeface can be considered quite readable and elegant to our modern eyes, and why shouldn't it, the 19th century is still well in the modern era.
That's not as true as you think. The readability and legibility (two distinct attributes) of a font have many factors, and they haven't been studied to the degree that one might expect. What studies have been done are often decidedly mixed or even contradictory, but there does seem to be some consensus that the medium is one of the factors. For print, serif fonts like Times New Roman offer higher readability and legibility on average, while sans serif fonts are better for computer displays. However, some fonts that work well on CRTs can be hard to read on LCDs, and vice versa. This was a major factor behind the design of Calibri, which was built for LCDs, and I think also a factor in the design of the Liberation font family that is the default for Libre Office.
While classic fonts (Arial, Helvetica, and Times New Roman) remain the go-to for many people (and most others just settle for whatever is the default in their word processor), there's still a lot of room for experimentation and expansion. Recent work on fonts for dyslexics has produced some interesting results, and I think they sometimes make documents easier to read, though the look can become tiring. That work may eventually find its way into mainstream fonts and make text in general easier to read for a wider set of the population, and it wouldn't happen if the issues surrounding readability and legibility of typefaces were, as you say, solved.
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AT&T tried to buy T-Mobile but was shut down on antitrust concerns. AT&T had to pay a $3 billion breakup fee to T-Mobile because the deal fell through.
Twice before, Sprint and T-Mobile have tried to merge. The sticking point was not antitrust concerns but how much control SoftBank would have over the unified company.
Sprint is going away sooner or later. It's extremely unlikely that they're going to get their act together enough to suddenly boost their subscriber count enough to remain competitive. It's either merge with T-Mobile now or get sold off in a bankruptcy auction later. The merger is the best outcome for consumers.
Though you mention a good point about LEO satellites. SpaceX has initial approval for its 4000+ satellite constellation. It just might allow entrants (or even SpaceX) to offer a competitive, all-data service and not have to worry much about towers.
Trump had nothing to do with it, and there's still no peace treaty signed. The two Koreas agreed that they should end the war and pledged to work toward it, but that's happened before and they're a long way from an actual treaty.
No, it's at 17-year lows. In 2000, the unemployment rate reached a record low of 3.8% in April, and had a four-month run of 3.9% from September to December.
Unemployment rates for blacks and Latinos are at record lows, but even then only by a tenth of a percent. For blacks, December 2017 has a 6.8% rate and February and March 2018 saw rates of 6.9% each. Compare to April 2000 when it was 7.0%. For Latinos, the record low of 4.8% was first achieved in October 2006 and duplicated in June, October, and November 2017.
Egypt, Syria, and Iraq would likely disagree. Egypt is dealing with ISIS in the Sinai Peninsula, Syria is still dealing with remnants, and Iraq is back to fighting them after some of the groups that fled Raqqa tried to take territory in Iraq again. Groups following or inspired by ISIS are still operating in Afghanistan, Libya, Nigeria, and the Philippines, and may be active in Pakistan, Chad, and Tunisia as well.
They said that after the first time he used cruise missiles after a chemical weapons attack, and that one actually did damage to real infrastructure and destroyed some aircraft. Many more chemical attacks happened.
Most people are only taking home a few extra dollars per week, and while a few companies have handed out raises and bonuses, they are by far the exception. Some of the bonuses, like those handed out by AT&T, were planned long before the tax cut was passed but played up as being made possible by it. Those bonuses totaled $200 million for 200,000 employees. Compare that to the $29.5 billion in profit it posted in 2017. They were crowing about sending 0.7% of their profits to the employees. Meanwhile, compensation for the top five executives in 2017 was more than $74 million.
The results so far are paper thin. It wouldn't take much to knock them down. Trump can do that by pushing a trade war, something he seems intent on doing. Even withdrawing from the Iran nuclear treaty could start stacking the deck against the economy given the significant sales that companies like Boeing have lined up with Tehran.
Marriage is deeply enshrined in wide-ranging parts of law. Spouses get presumptive rights for hospital access and medical decisions and are generally first to receive the estate of the deceased when there's no will. Taking the state out of marriage would greatly complicate all of that: hospitals would have to see a copy of a notarized contract between two people to determine if someone is allowed to see the patient or make decisions, and already complex intestate deaths would be forced into the courts.
Those are just the two immediate issues that come to mind. There are plenty of others that would have effects ranging from weak (getting rid of tax benefits for married couples) to significant (survivor of a relationship not getting Social Security Survivor Benefits).
Sure, 40% of first marriages end in divorce, but that means that 60% end in the death of a spouse. Average marriage lengths may be under a decade, but that includes second and later marriages, which are even less successful. Median marriage lengths for first marriages are much longer; I've seen suggestions of 40+ years but can't find a reliable source, but the US Census Bureau did a study published in 2009 that found more than half of people first married between 1960 and 1964 reached their 40th anniversary. Similar numbers reached their 35th, 30th, 25th, and 20th anniversaries in the following five-year groups. It seems that if a first marriage, at least, can get past 10 years or so, it tends to hold on pretty well.
Worldwide, Apple's computer market share is around 8%. In the US, it's been at or above 10% since at least 2012, getting close to 15% several times.
It's still very much a minority in the non-server computing world, just not as much of a minority as you think.
I've been hearing this since the early 1990s. They still can't crack more than a few percentage points in any national poll, even the ones asking who they'd *like* to vote for rather than who they *plan* to vote for. I don't see them doing all that well in other countries, either, even those that have a half-dozen or more parties in the legislative bodies.
Those fortunes relied on things like half-page and full-page ads, in some ways analogous to the same thing we have now in that the content could have been one page forward but to get to the content, you have to go through the ad. The same is only barely tolerated now online, but that tolerance is declining as they become more frequent.
What made them tolerable in the newspaper era was that most entities couldn't afford those ads, so they were less common. Someone doing that had something that probably interested a sizable portion of the readership. Now, it just takes a bit of code to cover the entire page.
Some banks can be a giant PITA about it. A few years ago, I got a check for an account at Wells Fargo and, because I needed the money right then and didn't have the same amount of cash in my account, I went to cash it at the local Wells Fargo. They wanted ID (of course), but they also wanted thumbprints and a $5 service charge for cashing the check drawn on an account at their bank. Because I needed the cash, I did it, but it was one of a long string of issues that made me despise them.
Now, I just use the app on my phone to deposit most checks I get. It's kind of tedious, but it's not horrible. If I know I'm going to be near my bank, I'll deposit them there just so they're not laying around my office for a couple of weeks while I make sure the deposit goes through.
On the contrary, most small business that I see starting up are going cashless. This includes restaurants, a cheese shop, and a bakery. The hassle of storing, protecting, counting, and depositing cash are worth less than the potential lost sales. Almost everyone uses plastic now, and even the rare person who prefers cash usually has plastic to fall back on. Stores don't have to do much other than sell product and have the money deposited automatically into their accounts. The data feeds into accounting software automatically, further reducing their workload.
Network outages still occur, but are less of a factor as networks improve. It's been a long time since I've seen a down network in any of my travels. In those times, stores have to make a choice if the customer has been consumed the product, like at a restaurant. I imagine many of them will just ask people to pay the next time, trusting them to do so. Not all will, but enough will that the hit won't be too bad. They can also stop taking orders if they know that the network will be down for a while. Most stores can take a couple of hours of downtime, and those that can't weren't just on the cusp of making enough money to survive.
Because bail jumping is a separate offense. Letting one person skip bail until the prosecution loses interest (or critical witnesses become unreliable or unavailable) makes it far more likely that others will as well.
It's far easier to extradite to the US from the UK than just about anywhere else (even factoring in the Lauri Love decision), which made his claims about Sweden really weird.
They'd charge him with bail jumping, for which he now has an outstanding warrant that has been upheld by the courts at least twice. He'd go to jail, serve some portion of the time (maximum of either six months or one year, depending on circumstances), and then get deported to a nation where he holds citizenship, which would be either Australia (where he was born) or Ecuador (which gave him citizenship recently).
Flee from justice after your supporters put up £93,500 for your bail, all of which was forfeit.
Given the amount of Bitcoin in Wikileaks' wallets, this shouldn't be a problem.
Well, for the next week or two, anyway.
The ruling came down yesterday. No appeal is filed and heard that fast absent extremely exigent circumstances, and this doesn't qualify. At this point, the defendants (listed below) can choose to appeal and have the resources to do so, and given the effect of such a ruling, I'm sure they are doing just that.
Defendants:
Boston Globe Media Partners, Inc.
Breitbart News Network, Llc
Gannett Company, Inc.
Heavy, Inc.
Herald Media, Inc.,
New England Sports Network, Inc.
Time, Inc.
Vox Media, Inc.
Yahoo, Inc.
Trial court judges do not have remotely the power that you ascribe. These kinds of rulings do not have precedence. Precedence requires response from the appellate courts. In fact, these kinds of rulings are the very reason that appeals courts exist: to review the case and ensure that the law was properly applied.
This came from a bad reading of the law. It happens. Even the best judges screw up sometimes. Then appeals happen and the rulings get overturned and remanded. The judge issues a new ruling, or carries out a new trial if necessary. If the judge rules the same way, the appeals court has the ability to overturn and remand it again. I've seen a couple of appellate decisions that remand with fairly clear instructions that the judge shall rule in a specific manner. If there's continued refusal, attorneys can seek recusal through various means.
Judges rarely try to force issues, though, because just as plaintiffs and defendants don't want to piss off the judge, judges don't want to piss off the appellate courts. It looks bad for them at review, can stymie their chances at an appellate position of their own, and, from a practical matter, can lead the appeals court to sigh and say, "Oh, this judge again," and go in with closed minds. When it gets remanded *again*, they still have to deal with it.
Judges get qualified immunity because without it, no one would want to do the job and the whole system would come to a halt. They have to screw up really badly--and this doesn't come close to that--to have any form of punishment levied.
Images uploaded to social media are provided under a non-exclusive agreement that the platform can copy and display it within their own framework. That framework extends to embedding because it's part of the structure.
That the original uploader didn't have the right to upload it isn't (or shouldn't be, given this case) on Twitter or any other platform. It's on the person that uploaded it. To require social media--or any other distribution platform--to confirm rights prior to accepting a submission would end every hosted service, not just social media. Web hosting providers could no longer safely operate due to the risk that their customers might upload some content to which they don't have rights.
The DMCA has plenty of flaws, but the safe harbor provision is a cornerstone of how the web works.
I've been doing it that way since some time in elementary school, maybe around 4th or 5th grade when we learned multiplying large numbers. I call it left to right because I'm multiplying the left-most column first, then move right. Most people would multiply it this way on paper:
1
4
56
x27
----
1
392
112
----
1512
This is the common way taught in schools, or at least US schools (and I presume at least some foreign schools, as I've seen some people educated in other countries do it the same way.) The single digits represent carries. Operations move from right to left. (The formatting is messed up a bit, but I tried it with the code tags and it was worse in preview. Should still be recognizable.)
That depends on the methods. Most people do large numbers on paper from right to left, but I can do it in my head in a sort of left to right blocking method. Take 56 * 27. I break that into the following steps:
(56 * 20) + (56 * 7)
1120 + (56 * 10) - (56 * 3)
1120 + (560 - 56 - 56 - 56)
1120 + (504 - 112)
1120 + 392
1512
In practice, it's not really different from the left to right method, except the numbers are easier for me to track in my head. YMMV, though.
Parties have enormous power under the First Amendment (right to free assembly) to determine how their party works. The DNC and RNC have vastly different primary rules and are allowed to as current interpretations of the First Amendment do not allow the government to interfere much with them.
These rules are also not used that often so even ideas meant to improve things don't get much testing. Public selection of candidates for major parties has only been around since the early 1970s, first getting some use in the 1972 election, so they've only been used about a dozen times. That's including incumbent primaries, though, so it's even fewer for each party.
In the case of Democrats, Sanders had a huge hurdle to get past with the superdelegates backing Clinton from the start, putting him at a distinct disadvantage before the first vote was cast. The DNC assigns delegates based on election results, so a candidate getting 60% of the vote in a two-person race will get 60% of the delegates.
Republicans do things differently, leaving it up to states how to apportion delegates. Some go winner-takes-all, some do proportional, some do proportional with floors. On top of that, additional delegates are assigned to a state that voted for the last Republican presidential candidate or has elected positions held by Republicans or a majority of Republicans.
And those are heavily simplified versions, as there are a ton of other caveats. There are other important bits, but one factor that the parties seem to work together on is primary scheduling. This is why Iowa goes first and other states go in weird orders. A state that violates a party's earliest allowed date can be ignored by the party. It's perfectly legal to do so, as freedom of association means that the parties can exclude anyone they want.
It's an ugly mess, but fixing it might get uglier.
No, it's not. Other people put up his bail, a total of 93,500 pounds, to secure his bail. He promised to appear in court. Every level went against him. He realized he was almost certainly going to be extradited, and fled. Those people are out the bail money, and he's actively committed an offense.
LastPass handled their vulnerabilities correctly by not only engaging the researcher, but by also explaining publicly how they were fixing it, providing the timelines, and thanking Tavis Ormandy for his work.
KISS on Linux has been broken for a long time. As soon as the GUIs started coming into play, Linux lost KISS. Web, email, and database servers also are mostly past the KISS phase. Sure, there are the classic command-line utilities that still sit in that space, but vi and (especially) emacs don't fit in, nor have they in a very, very long time. Even the shells have grown well beyond the KISS realm.
It's a nice principle to hold onto when you can, but it's not the answer for every situation. Sometimes tying together a dozen things to get what one can do is possible, but that itself moves away from simple. Necessary complexity is where Linux has been for some time.
The closest you get to this is Qubes, which is a PITA to run. (I haven't looked at the RCs for v4, which is supposed to be easier.)
That's not as true as you think. The readability and legibility (two distinct attributes) of a font have many factors, and they haven't been studied to the degree that one might expect. What studies have been done are often decidedly mixed or even contradictory, but there does seem to be some consensus that the medium is one of the factors. For print, serif fonts like Times New Roman offer higher readability and legibility on average, while sans serif fonts are better for computer displays. However, some fonts that work well on CRTs can be hard to read on LCDs, and vice versa. This was a major factor behind the design of Calibri, which was built for LCDs, and I think also a factor in the design of the Liberation font family that is the default for Libre Office.
While classic fonts (Arial, Helvetica, and Times New Roman) remain the go-to for many people (and most others just settle for whatever is the default in their word processor), there's still a lot of room for experimentation and expansion. Recent work on fonts for dyslexics has produced some interesting results, and I think they sometimes make documents easier to read, though the look can become tiring. That work may eventually find its way into mainstream fonts and make text in general easier to read for a wider set of the population, and it wouldn't happen if the issues surrounding readability and legibility of typefaces were, as you say, solved.