List of cosponsors, among other info Copypasta: Mark Amodei [R-NV2] Joe Baca [D-CA43] John Barrow [D-GA12] Karen Bass [D-CA33] Howard Berman [D-CA28] Marsha Blackburn [R-TN7] Mary Bono Mack [R-CA45] John Carter [R-TX31] Steven Chabot [R-OH1] Judy Chu [D-CA32] John Conyers [D-MI14] Jim Cooper [D-TN5] Ted Deutch [D-FL19] Elton Gallegly [R-CA24] Robert Goodlatte [R-VA6] Tim Griffin [R-AR2] Tim Holden [D-PA17] Peter King [R-NY3] John Larson [D-CT1] Ben Luján [D-NM3] Thomas Marino [R-PA10] Alan Nunnelee [R-MS1] William Owens [D-NY23] Ben Quayle [R-AZ3] Dennis Ross [R-FL12] Steve Scalise [R-LA1] Adam Schiff [D-CA29] Brad Sherman [D-CA27] Lee Terry [R-NE2] Debbie Wasserman Schultz [D-FL20] Melvin Watt [D-NC12]

You do realize that 16 of the 32 (current) sponsors are Democrats? Source

Let's sift through this lovely FUD...

Stats on how often this actually happens, please. In no way do I belittle the women who have to go through this traumatizing experience, but it just isn't that common.

[citation needed]. I have a hard time believing Paul would actually side against the women whose lives could be saved via abortion. Even if he did side against them, as president he'd never get congress to support him.

Meaningless sensationalism. I'd say it's unfounded, but you didn't actually say anything, and it's hard to call such a content-free sentence unfounded.

Your POV is showing. I have a hard time taking anything someone says seriously when they believe the sort of thing you'd expect from an 8-year-old: "[X]s rule! [Y]s drool!"

"Combating the theft of U.S. property"...honestly? The words "theft" and "property" are HUGE red flags that these people have no clue what they are talking about.

The study only represents Flurry customers, however. All it really shows is a correlation between being a Flurry customer and choosing iOS over Android.

No, these people are debating about screaming "SOUP" in Spanish.

That would fall under the first rule: "post anything, trust nothing". And its natural extension into real life: "trust no one"...? Seriously, though. Don't give other people material to post against you. If they make crap up about you and post it, then simply refer your friends to the "trust nothing" part. Everybody wants the government to solve their problems, but then complains when the govt has so much power. Just be smart and deal with it yourself, people.

That, however, is entirely contrary to the idea of the internet. The natural extension of "post anything, trust nothing" into the web 2.0 era is "don't post anything you will regret the world knowing".

Oh my! That's almost as bad as killing a fly! They might become endangered!

Fortunately, this is slashdot. Nobody [of importance] actually clicks through.

I have serious doubts about your experience

I again have doubts; for absolute performance on true number crunching, imperative is probably better. And for "handling data", imho FP shines brighter; imperative approaches to manipulating complex data are much more error-prone.

Despite what I've said, I think we generally agree on most things.

As an hobbyist Haskeller, I tend to embrace the unofficial Haskell motto of "Avoid success at all costs!" Responding to your 4 points, though,

1. Limiting yourself to a functional paradigm has benefits. You can use equational reasoning about code, and the compiler can perform more vigorous optimizations. Plus, for those of us who program for fun, it's...well...fun!

2. In Haskell it seems there is always something more to learn. Feature or bug, you decide.

3. Lisp (+ descendants), Haskell, and OCaml have compilers that have shown themselves to produce code which is rather fast.

4. Minimizing execution time and memory usage aren't always the main requirements for a program. Functional programming is well suited for guarantees of correctness, for example.

...if it were a life-sized replica...we would have quite a problem on our hands.

I wonder what implications this has for XBox, Wii, PlayStation, etc.

The [mobile] devices are subsidized...by you. The ridiculously high monthly cost of a contract more than covers the cost of the device; astronomical cancellation fees pay for the device if you decide to jump ship. Also, this is about a lot more than just mobile devices.