Seriously, anybody who has the necessity to have a named, or fixed location on the WWW should not have a problem getting a fixed IP cheap by their ISP

I'm in Asia. My ISP doesn't do static IPs anymore. I'm lucky I'm on one that isn't doing carrier-grade NAT, though I don't know how long that will last.

I guess I was lucky, in that I was using some indirection which made it easier to switch. From the start, I had my own domain, which was aliased to a dyndns.org domain (actually thruhere.net). I lost that when my update script missed the deadline for some reason, and they'd already moved that domain away from their free offerings so I couldn't get the same address back. I made the switch then, and only had to update my alias and wait a couple of hours for that to propagate. Given that I generally manage to keep the same IP address for 2 - 3 months at a time, I could manually update the IP address if it came to that, but it is easier to have a script to take care of the updating.

Dyn.com (the for-profit successor of dyndns.org) has been progressively making it harder to maintain your free address for the past 3 or 4 years. First, they made it so you had to update your DNS record once a month to avoid being cancelled (even if your IP address didn't change in that time), then they made it so you had to submit the update through their ad-infested web page, and I think they also increased the frequency that you had to do that. There are many alternatives which still provide a free service that is convenient to use, I'd have thought most users would have switched by now.

Not at all. Noone was dishonest about the reason they wanted him to resign.

Why does Eich's right to free speech trump the right to free speech of those calling for his resignation?

The number of deep pockets able to compete here must be pretty limited

Judging by the number of personal assistant apps that became available for Android within days of Siri being announced, I'm not sure that deep pockets are all that necessary.

The "man lying with a man" does not have to be stretched at all

That would depend on what they choose to do while they are in bed together. There is a rather infamous picture which you can probably still find linked to every story on Slashdot if you browse the comments at -1, that demonstrates a rather unpleasant combination of these two biblical verses, which you might find educational.

Torture only works for confessions of things you already knew for sure.

I think part of the problem is that there is still a section of American society today who "already know for sure" that all Muslims are terrorists. And around 2002 / 2003 there were many, many more who thought this way.

By blaming the CIA, Rumsfield et al wash their hands of the situation, and the individuals responsible within the CIA will never be identified and held responsible due to the barrier of secrecy under the guise of national security that the CIA operates under. There will be no arrests, this is just part of the operation to make sure of that.

You are being selective about what you interpret literally, and what you interpret as something that encompasses other things that are perhaps similar to what is literally written, but not literally the same. In the case of the goat, you are prepared to go to the extent of saying that it only covers juvenile goats, only if the method of cooking is boiling, and only the milk of the goat's own mother, while others interpret that verse as meaning any animal being combined in cooking with any milk product. On the other hand, in the case of man lying with man like he lies with a woman, you interpret that as banning homosexual marriage. Even if you accept that "lying" in this context is a euphemism for sex, and not for being untruthful, it is clearly impossible when a man lacks a vagina, for another man to "lie with him as he would a woman". And what of homosexual couples who don't engage in anal sex, does the Bible literally declare them as sinners?

As does Apache Bloodhound. Why do we need so many open source projects for managing open source projects?

USGS is involved in all major earthquake measurement - the waves travel around the world in an earthquake of this size, and often the precise magnitude is more accurately determined at a distance.

Initial reports of earthquakes always have differing magnitudes, based on different data sources. It is only a couple of days later when all the data is analysed together that a consistent magnitude is agreed on.

If only you could be so literal when interpreting "a man should not lie with another man as he lies with a woman".

1) The purposes of marriage and acceptance of that was for Progeny.

Where is the campaign for annulling the marriages of couples who have not procreated within a reasonable time of marriage? I don't see one. No, clearly this is not the purpose of marriage.

2) Benefits that were granted by government was to allow for Families to have societal support for raising children and wealth (asset) transfers to the children.

Some benefits target children in families. But other benefits are available also to childless couples. And you admit in your parenthesised asides that it is possible for gay couples to adopt, have surrogate or artificially inseminated children, or make arrangements for sexual relations for the sole purpose of procreation outside of the marriage, yet you want to deny such children these benefits?