Two important things to consider:
1. It will increase prices of products as well, so at the end of the day it's just a cycle where nothing really happens.
2. Do you actually think the same amount of employees will be employed if companies are mandated to pay them more? Many of them will lose jobs.

Minimum wage hikes tend to hurt two parties the most:
1. Small businesses, who are typically operating on rather small margins anyway. Unlike larger businesses, they can't easily move to places with lower minimum wage or offshore jobs.
2. Middle class, because they suffer the increase in costs incurred by minimum wage hikes, but don't benefit at all from it because they're already above the minimum wage.
Minimum wage increases try to tackle a real problem, but do nothing to actually solve it. Minimum wage should be adjusted in accordance with inflation and nothing else.

Yes. If you load up an editor enough, then the line between editor and IDE gets blurred. It's why I'd always start with an editor that is good at actually editing text, and build off of that, because that's usually easier than taking an IDE and trying to get it to edit text how you want. An IDE could make your breakfast and drive you to work but at the end of the day the main point is still to edit text.

Then get a non-clicky one.

No, discrimination based on country of citizenship isn't any more racist than something like an embargo. Can it be racially motivated? Yes, but because any such blanket ban does not consider race, it cannot be racist.

I think Google is partially at fault. When Android was first announced, I thought it would make phone OSes much better, because you'd just be able to install "Android" on your phone. Google releases the newest android, you install it. Just like any desktop OS. I don't need to wait for Dell/HP/whoever to release a new Windows version for their particular phone, I just get it straight from MS and install it myself.

Instead, Google probably caved to the carriers and gave them way too much control. So now we not only have to wait for a new release from Google, but from the manufacturer as well.

That doesn't solve any problem. The issue is that in many places, taxis are given government-granted x-opoly in the form of taxi medallions which effectively shield them from competition, allowing them to overcharge.
In addition, it's pretty dumb to begin with that you can take some action which is perfectly legal (in this case, letting someone ride in your car), but as soon as you add a transfer of currency (also perfectly legal), it somehow becomes illegal.

Nobody should be required to buy into loss leaders or other pricing schemes like this.

It should maybe be pointed out that if Linux gaming actually manages to take off, it opens up new possibilities due to being able to compile your own kernel.

The added difficulty of cheating on a console is often offset by the fact that most console game developers get lazy and start trusting the client.

It won't do anything because people would just program macros and such into the hardware. As it currently stands, basically every keyboard/mouse with "macro" support is doing it entirely in software. However, keyboards and keyboard converters are easily available which can do macros in the hardware. You can even DIY with a $20 microcontroller.

It's not just that. Having paid X often times drastically reduces the quality of X, because then you get people just trying to make a quick buck instead of people who were actually passionate about it.

Well, Nexus manages to survive off completely optional paid subscriptions/donations/whatever you want to call it yet still manages to provide better mod distribution. Both Valve and Bethesda both got paid for their game when the game was bought in the first place. And unless a modder is distributing the game or at least a part of it with their mod, then it's not a derivative work.

The way I see it is that the game plus mod combined would comprise a derivative work. However, the mod alone is not. Unless someone is distributing the game (or at least some component of the game) along with the mod, the mod alone would not violate anyone's copyright nor be a derivative work.

It wouldn't do much. DRM circumvention is generally done by someone who actually knows what they're doing, and then the DRM-free version is posted for all to easily enjoy.

That being said the DRM will probably still be a joke.

Oh, just you wait. As has been the case with pretty much every hardware advancement in the history of computing, software bloat will offset it. Give it time, and a SATA SSD will feel as old and clunky as a hard drive does today.