False analogy...
Newton tried to observe the world and deduce how it works from his (and others) observations. And so did the scientists that followed, how mistaken they might have been at a point or another.
Aristotelician science was deducing how the world works from how it should work (and yes, "God doesn't play dice" is part of that tradition, note though that Einstein did not use that phrase to demonstrate that quantum mechanics was wrong, just that he felt that it had to be wrong somehow). While obviously they had to include some actual observations into their conceptions, still it's philosophy, not science.
Actually, Galileo's answer about some of his thought experiences that he needed not to carry them in the real world, as he already know the result, is vastly anti-scientific too... which is an argument on how he helped invented the scientific method (namely, if he invented it, it didn't entirely exist at his time).

It's not about film, it's about the movie experience.

As Godard says, "La télévision fabrique de l'oubli. Le cinéma fabrique des souvenirs."

He may be right or wrong, but there's a full theory about how movies are different from television (the line may be blurred by home cinema, though), so there are some rationals behind a decision to keep them separate at a film festival.

It's a bit far-fetched, but apparently the CIA operations of the time went MUCH wronger than that: we have the AIDS epidemic to thank them for!

From Nuno Faria's epidemiologic work, it seems that the worldwide spread of AIDS came from the Haitian volunteers to Congo who had to come back home after the CIA crushed the democratically-elected Lumumba government...

A better question: they use Windows on a hospital computer WHY?

To be fair, the church is unable to stop embryonic research, they might do it if they get the power to.

To be even fairer, they are not very uncomfortable with it because of the scientific part of it (they do not consider "unfaithful" to try to understand how embryonic development work) but because of the actual actions that are taken (they consider embryonic cells as "human beings in development" and so consider that these should not be treated as raw material), which is sort of a rational position if the premises are accepted - and there is no rational answer to "when does an embryo becomes a human being", everybody has to make up his own stance on it (and to quote an atheist scientific, Claude Levi-Strauss, "I'd rather accept the humanity of a stone than deny it to any human being").

It's worse than that: married Catholic priests do exist, and there is no problem with that, but only in the Maronit rite (which is fully integrated in the Catholic church, they are just allowed to keep their own rite instead of the Roman one, for political reasons: this was done to take them away from Orthodoxy).
Though Catholic priests of the Maronite rite cannot marry either, to be entirely honest: they are ordinated already married, those who did not marry before ordination will never marry.

So the hypocrisy is complete: it's not against any theological belief (I mean, not only is it not against the Gospel as you pointed out, but it's not against any theological belief of the Catholic church itself, since they consider it okay for the Maronite rite) for a Catholic priest to be married, but it's still not allowed in the Roman rite, with all the consequences you pointed, because reasons - or maybe because rite trumps theology?

Ben Carson is in charge of HUD, not of Net Neutrality.

Doesn't this means that Secure Boot as much as UEFI is moot now and that only Coreboot or Libreboot have any legitimacy on a computer?

But what's going to happen to UbuntuTouch then?

I'm getting used to MATE since I switched from Cinnamon (beautiful, but heavy on the system) some weeks ago, but the default settings are really ugly and I have trouble finding a good theme to replace it...
I use Black which has some good things in it, but on slashdot textboxes (like where I type this message) the text appears white on white, so it's really not practical.
What would be the best UI settings to use then?

An eye for an eye will make the world blind.

I'm all in favor of harassing traveling US officials, but why do that to ordinary people?

Is that allowed by the Sikh religion?
I thought Sikhism was about "kirat karo", honest work...

True. Better try a Mint LiveCD or LiveUSB before making a decision.

NoScript+RequestPolicy+Disconnect makes one quite difficult to track...
And what are these "ads" you're talking about? Does it have something to do with adblock?