Good, I'm tired of being expected to work for 1/2 of my waking hours.

They really should just re-scale everything.
100-93 - A
92-85 - B
84-77 - C
77-70 - D
70-0 - F
Now that I type that out I realize that actually was my school district's grade scale.

I was with you until the yelling part, an interview is a two way street. If I'm getting yelled at in an interview I can only imagine how bad it will be in the workplace.
On second thought, if that's actually how your office functions, then I guess it is honest and appropriate. I just wouldn't want to work there.

To keep this whole discussion honest, yes it is. A registration code is a form of digital rights management. While more recent forms have been much more controversial, type in the wrong code and see if you get to play the game.

You are correct. Verizon is showing no compassion. What she's done is screw with them just as hard as they were screwing with her. What's cheaper to her, a phone call to a tv station, or $350?

Now if the MAFIAA just ran a torrent index they could just send out settlement letters to everyone with that zip+4!

I think you give privacy too much importance. I can live with machine observation for the purpose of better serving and meeting my needs. It's the human abuse of that data that is the problem, and privacy has always just been a way to prevent those abuses.
If people would just stop abusing others for their own personal gain we wouldn't have an issue with a profile shared ubiquitously for our own benefit. I guess it's mostly a moot issue since privacy is much more attainable than expecting to be treated with dignity and respect.

Political power influences a small amount of corporations known as governments that have restrictions on what they can do, economic power influences EVERYONE.

There is a fixed amount of money in the world, so the more money they have the less money you can have, it is zero sum. Those that seek political power do so (theoretically) in a system that has spelled out what power you can take, and what power you can't take. You have a certain amount of political power guaranteed to you at all times. So for economic power to be morally equal to political power, everyone would need to have a guaranteed amount of money at all times.

Every consumer always picks the best value, that's what they call the "market".

Always choosing the lowest cost would mean there is no high-end market and everyone shops at Wal-Mart.

Once the broadband net is no longer neutral, the case to argue about keeping it neutral is already over. Right now the broadband net is theoretically neutral, so it makes sense to treat it like other neutral networks (e.g. telephone).

Once broadband is not carrying mostly neutral traffic, but paid-partner traffic the argument that is should be treated like a neutral network becomes much harder to argue. That is why the FCC wants to make this move now.

The tabs make sense because the URL bar should be part of the tabbed area. The URL is likely different with each tab and therefore shouldn't be outside of them (you expect anything outside the selected tab to not be affected by switching tabs).

The bookmarks & options being inside the tabs is just a judgement call to allow for my following point. By having the tabs at the very top of the frame, and likely at the very top of the desktop, the tabs actually become easier to click. This is because you no longer have to stop your vertical movement as precisely when moving to click one of them.

Money is zero-sum. Money is created through loans which much be repaid. Well, I guess it's a less than zero sum because most lenders demand payments of interest also. So for every dollar you make someone owes 1 dollar + interest to the lender that put that dollar in circulation.

I'm not sure if economics really differs from money in any real sense, since economics is just how we connect the real world with money.

I don't remember the last time I was required to take my paint internally though

supression != unwilling to use my resources to help you.
Do you seriously believe that every printing press, web server, megaphone, etc. has to convey your message when you demand it?

If it really is that simple (which could be put into a desktop shortcut) and it's causing hours upon hours of flame war, I now have a new respect for discussing the differences between emacs and vi.