Your sig really fits with your world view.

Yeah, but it's gravy they are entitled and who unto them who claim otherwise.

Well, to be fair, they transfer it with a giant sponge, so it is freshly squeezed.

I think that's true, but there is no federal law that protects gay rights. There will be someday, but not today.

I hope this causes more reasonable people to go to the polls. This is the kind of shit that happens when you have less then 30% voter turnout. Every year gives them more opportunity to gerrymander and lock real people out of the process (real lazy people, but real people).

Chuck Schumer sounds like a dick, and I refuse to be tarred with my parents brush. 1993 was over 20 years ago. There is a new generation of voters now.

That's never stopped a Christian before.

What if my religion prohibited me from dealing with disabled? Should I have to incur expenses for disabled access?

Ha, I'll bite.
Those racists would have hidden it, law or no law. The homophobic are doing it right now:
http://janariess.religionnews.com/2015/01/28/mormon-leaders-advocate-gay-rights-protections-religious-freedom/

This, let the free market sort it out, sounds great when it doesn't affect you. It's typical white or wealth privilege telling people that whatever bothers them is just a minor inconvenience and they should ignore it until it goes away. Meanwhile, they would never tolerate something like that affecting them.

There's always someone willing to argue that privacy is only necessary for those with something to hide. It's always proven to be a specious and foolish argument. I'm also a pretty public person who tends to overshare. That doesn't mean I don't value privacy.

Exactly! Came here to say this. Perhaps the giant robot program could be led by Japan's agriculture ministry.

Ukraine willingly gave up (as in "sold") most of its arsenal period. They didn't do ot because they were nice people (only Poles are less friendly), but because they couldn't afford the maintenance and needed money to steal. It has been one of most corrupt countries in the world for over 20 years - since they became an actual state.

So, typical GOP nightmare...
Sounds like in any other group he'd look like a raging lunatic, but in the current GOP he sounds like a moderate.

Thanks, I am interested to hear more about the real Lindsey Graham, if he becomes a strong contender. Cruz is a joke, he's the only one who doesn't get it. Jeb is basically Sisyphus, there's no way I could vote for him.

My phone runs a GNU/Linux-based OS. I got an Android tablet as a gift last year, but I only use it as a "carputer" and it has no Google account connected. I get my apps for it from the F-droid store, which is a thing I was free to install after changing a few options. That was nice wasn't it?

I think Apple is one of the top threats to computing freedom simply because their walled garden was the first to be successful on a general-purpose computer and has created a trend toward more curation and less freedom. All previous attempts at walled gardens on anything but dedicated videogame consoles failed horribly, and such attempts were considered a suicide plan for any business. The trend in computing before the iPhone came out was toward greater openness and freedom, and the success of the iThings made that trend do a quick about-face.

There's some circular logic here. How much value would the platform have without the apps? And the distribution system that you think they deserve credit for is the only method they allow for getting apps onto the OS! It's like giving East Germany praise for building the wall. Furthermore, companies have done the same in the past without locking down the platform - Atari, IBM and even Apple in the past come to mind.

No I'm not, that's why I framed the argument as a problem from the users' perspective. It's not their problem if developers don't make money. They should have access to any free apps anyone wants to make, or be free to make their own free apps and distribute them for free. And the costs involved in hosting apps in the App Store actually spur the creation of shovelware - there's no incentive to make them if not to make money, that's why they have ads and premium features in them. They're not creating shitty software as a charity.