I am not sure that this group of people has any business telling me what I need or don't need.

In the U.S. at least cable needs real competition in the broadband market. This is where the main oposition to growth is. We shouldn't be listening to them about anything at all.

It's too bad we live in a country almost entirely run by lobbyists...

Comparing the EFF to someone like the Koch industries is kind of funny. It's kind of like comparing an ant to a steamroller. Even if the EFF is incredibly strong it isn't going to win.

If he used "Duke Sucks" it would lose him some votes.

Again, I think this is a major reason that the tax code IS NOT simplfied. If it was then there many tax giveaways would simply be gone. How the amount of money that is given away to corporate entities is NOT a scandal is itself a scandal, and it's partially pulled off because the tax laws are so hard to understand without a team of lawyers.

Not so fast, Cowboy. They will have the manpower to audit YOU, just not [huge-multinational-name-here].

Like the removal of thousands of corporate tax giveaways? Not likely.

Bah. The argument was that there are security flaws that will be used as attacks if the code is on view of the public. It's the classic (meaningless) anti-open source argument. If the code was good then it wouldn't matter if it is viewed or not.

So the argument here is that security by obscurity is the only thing that is making it usable?

If that is a case then the whole thing should be killed. It's even worse than I thought it was.

And damn the shoddy business aps that rely on it. Maybe the can actually take responsibility for their mess for once.

You're a little screwed up there. Hollywood accounting is used to "prove" a movie DIDN'T make money, not that it did. It means they don't pay out the percentages of gross that big money actors are paid.

Let's see, we have Mike Brown, who MIGHT have "attacked," though the witnesses are starting to be questionable.

We have a guy that said "I am not going to jail" and did nothing physically and was choked to death.

We have a kid who had a toy gun who was killed withing 5 seconds and was never given a chance to comply.

We have a guy in a wal-mart who had a toy gun and was given less than a SECOND to comply.

The guy in St. Louis who pointed a gun at the gas station... that's a justified one. We don't care about actual attacks.

Again, what you just called for was authoritarianism. A black guy should apparently hit the dirt whenever a cop drives by.

This is coming from a white guy, FUCK YOU, you are part of the problem.. Stop listening to assholes with an agenda like Bill O'Reilly. Learn to do some critical thinking. It's deliciously ironic you accused me of "parroting" when you're the only who can only spout stereotype and hate.

The mass protests are about people being killed and are happening because authorities aren't listening.

You have a really stupid false equivalency there...

Again, I don't understand why the arguments assume there has to be ONE winner, or that one way wipes out the other way. If we cut BACK on dead animal fuel it will be an improvement. There is room for more than one way to fuel a house.

This stinks of another all-or-nothing argument. I would guess that EVERY house will still use mains power. If you can make your own electricity at a decent enough cost it's a net gain, even if you are still connected to the grid. It doesn't solve ALL power problems, but no single system solves all problems.

How fast until his business model is made illegal?

Seriously... that's the way it works in the USA right now. Everyone is pro free market until their business model gets twacked by new technology.

I'm sorry, but the way things are going in the US, dark ages is probably not all that hyperbolic. The US could become something like the wasteland that fundamentalism has cause in the Middle-East.