>We're discussing whether it is morally justified to support a person or organization whose profit from goods and/or services sold will be used in furtherance of the oppression of a political minority.

Last I checked the majority of Americans support gay marriage. So the reverse, those against it, are the political minority.

>But tolerance is not the same as acceptance

True. This is why the KKK has the right to exist even though their views are not acceptable by the majority.

I really don't see a problem with this. I mean, I can actually reason this as being used to find "bad guys". This is very different from the NSA bullshit program which you don't have to be a conspiracy nut to know is being used for totally different reasons than we are being told.

Good for them. By the time they figure out a single persons message that person will already have passed away from old age.

You think the internet is free of censorship and spying by the government where you live? Check again. You don't have to look too hard to find about every country in the "free world" is actively looking at ways to spy on their citizens and limit their access. Countries like China and Iran are unique in that they decided to make their own non-Western controlled version of the same trap.

Sad thing is that if the U.S. stopped importing the world market would crash followed by decades of wars. As much as I hate the huge amount of imports I will gladly take those over that happening.

But by saying the planet is doing it on its own makes us seem insignificant like ants on a giant ball!

The U.S. government didn't spend a penny on LHC. But U.S. based Fermi, and many other U.S. companies, provided equipment and help in building the LHC.

And what "brouhaha" is there about Higgs Boson? Last I checked they are still looking for its existence.

You mean the CIA has been actively trying to halt the nuclear weapons program of a nation who is opposed to the United States?

Maybe a better, simpler solution is to build good relations with those who oppose you? This current strategy doesn't seem to be working very well and looks like it will only end with lots of people getting killed.

Then why don't they do that?

>Nearly every time I read about the EU doing something that doesn't outright fuck over its citizens, I think to myself, "Man, they must have heard about how we're all about freedom and citizens rights and just ran with it."

I always think "this must be the first step towards something bad". And it is funny that people have to mention when there is an EU rule that a member state can opt out of like it is the exception rather than the norm.

Power companies charge by the amount of power used. If they could technically give you 100% of the power you demand they would. And then charge you for it.

ISPs could move to that model too. But they don't want to. They prefer to charge flat rates and then throttle people who use it more.

“A lot of design compromises were made especially to give the Marine Corps the STOVL capability which, by the way, they’ve never used in combat,” he said. “And who says the Marines need a fast jet in combat?” said McPeak, now chairman of Ethicspoint Inc., a consulting firm in Lake Oswego, Oregon.

>If they're just implementing a vote buying scheme

You mean a scheme to steer politics in their favor? What is difference between a union lobbyist and a lobbyist from a business? Take for example the airlines where you have airline union lobbyists on one side and airline lobbyists for the airline industry on the other. If you remove the union you give the airline industry lobbyists no one to compete with.

>Repairs to Android smartphones cost wireless carriers $2 billion per year

Since when did wireless carriers repair smartphones? They just send them back in gross to the hardware maker for a refund on the next batch. $2 billion seems really high for mailing costs.

>Black people start doing it.

Unlikely since black people are the first to die in horror situations. Haven't you ever watched a horror movie?