While I don't have a problem with people patenting an organism or process they have created, I have a massive problem with people being able to patent a gene or other aspect of the body that they merely discovered.

I'd be far more comfortable with your running the world if you had mastered something as basic as a simple cut and paste into a web page.

Die you stupid capitalist pig dog. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hampster and your father smells of elderberries!

The real problem with the minimum wage is that it drives up the cost of labor and encourages people and companies to develop these kinds of inventions. It's not a coincidence that McDonald's has started introducing more automation as well-intentioned, but economics-challenged, legislators have raised the minimum wage nationwide. Obamacare also isn't going to make things any better for low-skilled workers.

What really bothers me is that the laypeople get it and are trying to do the appropriate thing, but when they run things up the chain the guys up there clearly STILL don't get it. I don't know if it's arrogance or ignorance or what (but the Opus Dei reference makes me wonder about lingering old-school arrogance).

So the kids in the photos, and who might be in jeopardy, are just SOL? That's not very noble of you.

The parishoners knew for months, if not years, that something strange was going on, but the diocese refused to do anything. There's a letter out there that the principle sent to the Bishop that's quite damning (and that the bishop supposedly never even read).

http://www.nbcactionnews.com/dpp/news/crime/a-newly-released-letter-by-snap-shows-that-parents-were-concerned-about-father-shawn-ratigan

The church still doesn't appear to be taking this stuff seriously and parents should be concerned.

How about, after 10 or 100 or whatever over-rides, somebody does some poking around just to see if anything's up?

Actually, it's worse because it lulls you into a false sense of security.

I wonder if this was a case of the boy who cried wolf/car alarm problem; a system that isn't calibrated well and that people learn to tune out due to all of the false alarms.

It looks like it just happened the first time I opened FF after it had been updated. It went away after I shut FF down and brought it back up. I know it's hard to duplicate those kids of bugs, but still...

Ouch. But uncomfortably true.

Now I have a "New Tab" tab that I can't get rid of or change focus to. Does anyone test this stuff?

...by you and state the year you wrote it. Also, use the copyright sign and the phrase all rights reserved. Then this, "Copyright is released as long as this work or excerpts is properly attributed. Also, any published excerpts cannot be copyrighted by other parties, nor can the original work in its entirety," is assumed.

...when art required skill and not just a (debatable) amount of vision and/or insight.

People are doing a disservice to real artists when they label stuff like this "art."

Would you rather be poor in Marx's day or today? It seems to me that today's poor have it pretty good, considering.

You could also argue that a big part of the problem of late is people living beyond their means. A nice, but modest, suburban home like the one you grew up in is no longer acceptable. Now, you need a McMansion, and that drives the overextension and the debt. Just watch any of the "Real Housewives" shows.

In terms of immiseration, the problem isn't exploitation but globalization (and cheap transport and communications). Back in the day, you competed for wages largely with people in your own country. Now, you're competing with workers from around the world.