Anybody can act Anakin Skywalker (and look who did) because it's Anakin's story that is compelling.

Except this is patently wrong because look how it turned out.

So it's no surprise that poor talent could be used (Portman, Christensen)

Bzzt again. Portman, at least, is a decent actress.

This is not about saying "we don't serve your kind here".

Yes, it is.

This is about establishing guidelines for government to avoid reflexively punishing religious individuals over their scruples of conscience.

No, it isn't. There was an amendment offered by the Democrats that specifically added non-discrimination language to the bill. It was shot down.

The Christian would be a jerk in that case. So why are so many gays being jerks about the exact same kind of thing?

Congratulations, you're an idiot. There's a difference between refusing to serve someone because they're asking for a product you don't sell and refusing to serve them because they're Christian, or Muslim, or black, or gay.

Yeah I can totally see how one school's dumb decision is equal to a law enacted by the government of a state that affects millions of people.

On the other side, it seems like you have the government forcing people not just to tolerate - but to actively celebrate something that is deeply abhorrent to them.

No, you don't, which is why that side of the argument loses. Nobody is saying you have to celebrate same-sex marriage, just that the sexual preferences of the people involved in a business transactions shouldn't matter. How in the hell are you supposed to determine that anyway? If you own a cake shop do you make all your customers sign an affidavit that they're straight? Force them to reveal the gender of their spouse?

Would you be OK with the business owner posting "No Gays Allowed" signs on the door?

It communicates clearly what it is trying to do.

It doesn't, actually. Looking at that as someone who doesn't know what a CRC32 is I have no idea why it's doing what it's doing. Some actual useful comments might be nice.

With process shrinks and MLC, flash endurance is falling sharply, and the bits literally leak out over time.

Uh, that's kinda the point of 3D. Instead of shrinking the cells, just stack them up. It's what Samsung did with their 850 Pros, which have a 10-year warranty. Besides, the TechReport torture test shows that reliability really isn't a problem for consumer-level devices.

Except there's a different between merely offending people and punching someone because you didn't get your din din (because you chose to hang out at the pub for a few hours getting drunk).

Hey, yeah, let's demonize someone with mental problems because that'll solve everything. Surely we don't need to understand him to try to detect and prevent this from happening again. Nope, he was just a crazy loser scumbag, case closed!

Again, you have no idea what was going on in this guy's mind.

You were doing OK until that "complete scumbag" line. You have no idea of what was going on in this guy's life or what mental problems he was having to drive him to this.

Or you could just get the hell out of the way.

This has been demonstrated on several different compilers, using nothing other than standard libraries.

[citation needed]

On the contrary, if you don't think Java is just as complex, it's you that hasn't understood at least one of these languages.

It is not complex by any reasonable definition, unless you're comparing it to BASIC or something. Part of the reason Java is ugly is that it's so simple, in fact - it eschews syntax sugar and various conveniences that'd make the code shorter and prettier.

Let me guess: you're a Java developer.

Java may have fewer features, but that doesn't stop the developers from getting stuff done.

This is a stupid argument. You could just as easily say, "Assembly language may have fewer features, but that doesn't stop the developers from getting stuff done."