If they had published the list, there would've been the problem that everybody has access to it. I imagine that if anybody could read the no-fly list, alot of employers might deny jobs to people on it.

Which is almost identical to Java on the JVM.

Marvel's been saying that Ultimate Peter Parker is going to die and be replaced by a new hero for months now, and there was very little complaint outside of a few people who didn't want to see Peter die and a few people that didn't think anybody else should be called Spider-Man. Now that we know he's not white, there's articles all over the mainstream media and even slashdot complaining that he's "Politically Correct"?

I can respect people who don't want to see Peter die and people that don't think anybody expect Peter should be Spidey, but if you think that the new Spider-Man is "politically correct", then you're the racist here, not Marvel Comics.

How can you say that when his only appearance has been a seven page fight with the Kangaroo in a comic that was released less than 24 hours ago? We still know very little about the new Spidey. Have you even read Ultimate Fallout #4?

You make it sound like they created a whole new universe just for Miles Morales. The Ultimate universe has had several ongoing series for 11 years now. There have been 160 issues of Ultimate Spider-Man, which has outsold Amazing Spider-Man on several occasions. It's a pretty well-established part of Marvel's catalog.

What if the new Spidey was white but still not an established friend/ally/confidant? Would you still be on /. arguing that Marvel "pulled him out of the ether" for the sake of being "politically correct"?

That's why there are separate governments at the state and county/city levels.

The upshot of this would just be that developers would make apps that refuse to run unless you give them all the permissions they want. I'm imagining something along the lines of (pseudo-code incoming):

try{

obtainfeature();

} catch (FeatureNotGrantedException) {

showErrorDialog();

endProgream();

}

This has to be real. Anonymous has long prided themselves on their lack of structure which allows anybody to declare themselves members of Anonymous and start doing stuff in the group's name. The upshot of this is that anybody who wants to can start their own business and capitalize on anonymous. Hell, I could open up my own fast food joint and call it Anonyburger if I wanted to.

Have I ever bought a new car from my mechanic because he told me my current model is totaled?

What are they going to do with the medical records of over a million soldiers? It's not like they can discover some sort of massive "death star ventillation"-style weakness in the entire army using medical records.

When you think about it, they haven't really handled Wikileaks at all. All they've done is take legal action against Bradley Manning for leaking sensitive information (which any organization, Government or private would do). Pretty much everything else that's happened (with Amazon, Mastercard etc) has been accomplished through bitching and moaning, not censorship and coercion.

I'm 21 years old, and I very rarely see anyone in my local comic shop who looks younger than myself (except on annual Free Comic Day), so no.

Most of my friends read Japanese Manga, and alot of them insist that Manga doesn't count as comics because there's a negative stigma associated with being a comics fan. Despite all the success that comic publishers have had with movies, they've still completely failed to convince the general population that reading comics is nothing to be embarrassed about, and that is why the industry is dying.

I believe they did something like this in the eighties with Crisis on Infinite Earths, except they didn't restart the numbering.

As for messing with the canon, it's not like they don't already constantly retcon things and release new versions of the origin stories.