There actually is a group of "approved" churches. Ones that are on that list are not subject to taxation, while the rest are.

Except wikileaks does have editorial control, as they decide what leaks to release, when to release them, how to release them, and format them for easier reading.

This "longstanding tradition" was broken with YEARS ago. That's not the story here.

Especially since the boiling point of water is 212F...

Amusingly, most white-collar criminals are actually republicans.

Because by the time most people get married, major brain development has mostly stopped and is locked in place.

It actually bothers the hell out of me that my post was modded funny, because I was being completely serious. I guess that gets lost easily on the internet though. I'm completely in agreement with you. The fact that people found my post funny kinda drives home just how ignorant many are to all this.

...why most mainstream religions demonize sex. It all makes sense now.

That game is called Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II.

Dwarf Fortress is like this for me and a lot of people. I'd never been interested in geology before, and now I'm fascinated by it.

Really, "treat others as you would have them treat you" is the only one that matters. It all falls into place from there.

You're missing the point which was that developers of open source don't generally CARE if their project sees wide use and acceptance- they are making it for themselves, and sharing it in case it happens to be useful for someone else too. The developers that DO care about wide use and acceptance, typically WILL try to design toward such a goal (Ubuntu being the go-to example). Most do not however, and it's very important to understand this.

I wasn't aware you could copyright your own name. This looks like yet another attempt to grossly extend the reach of copyright by dinging a guy who is genuinely guilty of a crime and trying to change that crime to copyright infringement. Blizzard would be so proud.