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Exactly. What would happen if Turkey kills Gülen with a drone strike in the US? Or China kills Falun Gong followers with drones in the US? I'm rather sure US would not follow their own line on drone strikes.

It's always good when you write the rules.

Like the US is carrying out repeated war crimes and the West does nothing - or the "East" for that matter. If something goes to court in the US if it even does, punishment is light [2] and pushed down to the lowest levels (Lynndie England got 2 years [1]). Or pushed by the president (Drone kills without a declaration of war).

If you have nuclear weapons and a large defence budget, you can do whatever you like to other countries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisone...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_Massacre#Officers

From my experience in 20 years of Java, it prevents the reusage of local vars, which mostly is wrong.

   Person p = ....
   p = doSomething(p)
   ...
   p = doSomethingElse(p)

is hard to reason about when it should be

   Person p = ....
   ... lots of code
   Person updated = doSomething(p) 
   ... lots of code
   doSomethingElse(updated)

Which is easier to read and understand. So you might have had bugs that would have been prevented with final, but you didn't attribute to final.

Sad var/val (or var/let) didn't make it.

All good Java developers I know make all local variables final to force better code.

... this would make from some creepy film scene - someone shouting for help and the car only watching.

With excel locking, os x trashes, etc.? What good configuration guide would you suggest for a mixed Linux, OS X and Windows environment with MS Office?

This magic only solves have the problems

    fruit:resource = xattr
    fruit:metadata = netatalk
    fruit:locking = none
    fruit:encoding = private
    delete veto files = yes
    veto files = /.snapshot/.windows/.mac/.TemporaryItems/.DS_Store

What happens when a self driving car in the future from a service is driving empty back to some parking? And hits someone? Does it call ambulance or police?

To me samba has just too much magic, especially when mixing unix, OSX and windows clients.