Oh trust me, I know lots of people who think abortion should be allowed in many, many circumstances. People use it as a form of birth control all the time, as evidenced by the rather high (and grotesque IMO) rates of abortion relative to the number of cases where those people would consider it a "legitimate option". Also, circumcision isn't meant to solve a problem I think. All I know is that it's a long-standing religious practice and that it has little-to-no difference in the child's life anyway. As long as we have freedom of religion we have to allow this practice, especially since it's not very harmful at all.

Wait, abortion without killing the fetus? Please explain. I'm curious as to what you mean.

And whether or not this is child abuse is really a matter of opinion. Some religions require or prefer it and it happens at such a young age that most kids, I assume, don't even know what happened if anything. I didn't know until I read about it myself.

So... How is that different from abortion?

Most Slashdotters I know of are pro-abortion, yes? They believe that the mother should decide whether or not the child is born or not. Why, then, is circumcision apparently evil in our eyes?

Okay I've read all of the reasoning here for why people are against this, but lets think about it: linking is not illegal, file hosting is not illegal, but hosting a website with the explicit purpose of linking to copyrighted material in such a way that it infringes upon the copyright of the content owners? THAT should definitely be illegal. Don't tell me none of you have ever seen a forum or a blog filled with nothing but links to illegally shared copyrighted material. Heck I've seen several that have explicit categories for things like games on a per-system basis, genres of music, or whatever else. Whether it's for ROMs, ISOs, MP3s, or any other type of file, they exist. Lets not pretend that they don't. You can wear a tin hat and stroke your neckbeard while saying that the problem is copyright law, but realistically, in the world we live in where changing it so radically will never happen, these sites should be stopped. Heck I'd gladly link to at least a dozen that I know of off the top of my head for evidence if it wouldn't possibly incriminate me.

"No, DownloadSomeFreeGamesAndShitOrWhatever.com is totally legal! It's just people linking to stuff! They can't control what people share!"

Think about how freaking ridiculous that sounds. Yes, we should go after the infringers in the first place, but that doesn't mean we can't attack these sites as well. It's not like only one person is allowed to infringe. By hosting theses sites, the site owners are accomplices.

What if someone got into the profession before something like this was decided? Should they just switch professions?

You misread me. I meant that Windows 7 works the way you want to work, which I compared to my preferences in the next sentence. Sorry if I didn't make that clear.

Another bit I forgot to add: what about religious people in the insurance industry who oppose providing birth control?

By providing insurance I would still be providing birth control, but simply by proxy. Also, I believe that considering birth control part of "standard healthcare" is the real problem. Birth control is a completely optional thing to begin with and it is not necessary for the health of citizens. There are some people who require certain types of contraception for legitimate medical problems, and those should be covered, but I don't see the underlying logic for providing birth control for the purpose of exploiting a reproductive (and, to some people, sacred) act for fun.

Maybe it doesn't have a saddle, yes, but it could have something at least as comfortable. There isn't only one way to build a working bike after all.

And you're wrong about "removing support for installing your own saddle". How many freaking times do people have to bring up extensions support? It's RIGHT THERE in GNOME 3. All you do is go to the extensions web page, click install on the one you want, and you're set! You can get nearly any feature you want that way. It's really not that hard. You don't even have to log out.

GNOME 3 does both of those features. Also, it works the way you want it to work. Personally, I prefer the way GNOME 3 is designed. Tomato, toe-mah-toe I guess.

The 3DS does have a built-in music player already, if you didn't notice. It support MP3 as well as M4A and it lets you share the names of your most-listened-to songs via streetpass. It's not exactly full-featured and it's mostly meant as a toy, but it's still there.

As for the other things you suggested... Yeah... I wish the 3DS could have user-developed applications as well.

If I had mod points I would give them all to you. GNOME 3 is, honestly, the most easily customizable desktop yet. People ask for customization, GNOME 3 gets extensions. People see extensions and say "my OS should work out of the box"... Well no OS does that. People will never be satisfied and just want something to complain about, I guess.

That's a bad analogy because it implies that these extensions are required to use GNOME 3. They are not. GNOME 3 is functional without any of these extensions. In fact, I only use one. Your analogy implies that, to do anything with the OS, you have to install an extension. This is completely false. It might make it easier or more comfortable for some people, yes, but it is absolutely not required.

I'm pretty sure that EVERY OS requires some sort of customization after installing to get it to work the way you want. Have fun looking for an OS that suits every single person's needs immediately!