Essentially this is just a threat to the minors that hold the balance of power in the senate to vote to repeal the carbon tax. They will now have to will vote in favour of scrapping the tax as they're the most likely to lose their position in the event that we go back to the polls.

no i don't need to be contactable 24/7. the thing is, i'm not psychic and do not know in advance when people might need to contact me

some people have time syncing with network turned off. i do, mostly because i live in my own time, which is about 5 minutes off the networks. (at least with my old provider, i haven't checked my new one)

well considering your project is free/open you have one of two options.
1. not care - think of it as some sort of cross-licence deal.
2. get upset that someone is using what is your intellectual property, despite the fact that you are also using theirs. stop using theirs and then sue them.

inviting people to my house is a crime now?

well considering the top 10% of US income earners earn somewhere between 40 and 50% percent of the income and have over 50% of the wealth. i'd say that 40 to 50% is lower than they should be paying - a lot of people who don't understand a progressive tax system would think it's about right,

not sure if you meant 40 - 50% of their income or 40 - 50% of the nations total income tax. the above assumes the latter however i also agree with both.

you don't actually know anyone in any music scene do you?

you should do the same. here's a hint. lots of 'real' adults with 'real' jobs drink. a lot. they also take drugs. sometimes a lot. they then go to work the next day and function perfectly fine as this is kind of their natural state. unless you're in some incredibly tiny organisation there are people that you know at your work that do this too.
you live in your bubble. other people live in theirs. no one's is more real than anyone elses.

citation needed.

the time and address of the next concert you are going to should be sufficient.

one doesn't need to physically have a service revolver next to them to want to use it on themselves.

China's Internet Users Cross 500 Million (article from January 2012)

so it's probably above 10%. but also probably lower than you would have expected.

i'm guessing you've been to some areas of both countries and thus witnessed what life is like for a small percentage of their total populations.
hell even in my own country my experience would tell me there are a lot more internet users than there actually are - that's because i experience a very small subsection of what life is like in my country.

so you're upset that you can't use features of G+ without signing up to G+ and wish you could just use your gmail account. you think it would be better if they just merged the two into say, one single account?

to all those saying this is meaningless, don't trust them, they could revoke this so don't rely on it. why not just request a license for $0 under these exact terms if you wish to use any of these patents in your project? then there will be no question of this being legally binding and u can use the contents of these patents freely.

i can draw a picture of you having sex with a goat. it wouldn't mean you had sex with a goat.
a drawing may be recognizable, but it is essentially meaningless in this context.

when you buy a subsidized phone on a plan you are still buying the phone. the only difference is you are buying it as part of a package.

Kind of like if how I bought two suits in a 2 for 1 sale, i should be able to take both of them to the alterations shop.

so unmute them.