We tried to change to an AT&T contract-free plan. After we paid for and received the new sims they told us the plan was not available and offered us a plan costing way more than our current T-mobile plan. Stupid bait-and-switch.

Wrong. If it is unjust then it does not work at all. You don't solve victimization by giving potential victims unlimited power to accuse whomever they please, thus creating real victims who have no recourse. It seems necessary to favor the bogusly offendable in order to protect the truly harassed but ultimately all parties must be subject to neutrally-applied accountability. Sexual harassment, as with other damaging disrespecting behaviors, must be stamped out in the workplace, but not at the cost of the misery generated by ill-intentioned people with control issues and personal agendas.

means it's safe for the non-family. Discrimination is bad; murdering English is evil.

It's a bit much to read that as a blanket anti-law enforcement comment, it simply means that Taco feels that the law enforcement needs of the Secret Service are subordinate to his right to secure his possessions.

I don't think this move is cool either, but it's totally legal.

If your ethical philosophy is "it's OK if it's not actually illegal" then you are a pretty poor human being.

I don't necessarily agree with this. I think that the number of people already on facebook is definitely an obstacle, but just look at its own history. You just need to create momentum, which is difficult to do but not impossible. When I first joined facebook, hardly anyone I knew outside of one specific circle of friends were on it. But I would tell my other friends about it, and eventually they'd try it out, and presumably do the same to others. I don't doubt it would change, but I doubt it would change like facebook did, at least in regards to privacy. The set-up alone would make that seem like a non-starter. All facebook needed to do was change its TOS. That doesn't seem like it'd work here. What I think their biggest challenge is going to be is to make it as easy to use/join as the more centralized social networks. Anything that starts out by saying "allows you to set up your own node" is going to turn off a vast majority of people.

This is one of the worst flamebaiting articles I've seen in awhile. The title is

But then they go on to prove something completely unrelated:

How exactly does this make the piracy number any easier for developers to swallow? They put their hard work into a game and 80% of people using their work have not paid for it. The only thing we really learn from this article is that people will do anything to spin piracy into a positive action.

Ummm... Yes, they do - they will exchange it for a copy of the same movie. I know, I've had to do it.

The religious arguments of ye old days, this reminds me of. I wish he would just think like a businessman and provide flash so more ipads can be sold. The app store has plenty of apple approved, slowly responding, poorly written, battery sucking applications, developers don't need flash for that. And guess what Steve, the _web_ was written for pc's and mice, the touch argument falls flat there as well. We will see how this holds up as flash appears on all the other mobile devices and runs fine.

I've always envied their ability to maintain control over their brand and use it for appropriately portioned good and evil ;)

From what I've understood from their past posts and various interviews, they owe a lot to their business manager, Robert Khoo.

They like explaining how they actually sold their brand and rights away before Khoo came aboard. Luckily, the buyer disappeared into bankruptcy and nobody else has since claimed that ownership. I'm not too sure of the details and current veracity of this :)

Nope - the stategy was sound. The French high command expected to deploy troops in Belgium to fill in between the Belgian fortresses so as to form a complete line. There should have been an agreement in place with Belgium; there was none - when the French government requested permission to deploy French troops in Belgium King Leopold refused.

I'm glad I read through before replying, because I like yours more than what I was going to say.

Fact: we have routinely and consistently proven ourselves stupid and ignorant with regard to limitations we have placed on the universe throughout the ages. What makes you any more certain that our current limitations are not more of the same, just based on different faulty understandings?

He does live in a trailer, on the back acre of his parents lot, down a gravel road, 2 miles from a town with a population under 2000.

It is also a 30 to 45 minute drive from Stennis Space Center.