If you want to be honest and fair there is no issue. You might want to feel persecuted. You might want to disenfranchise a particular group. But all of this has a simple solution that is beyond possible contest. NOTE: That doesn't mean that it would stop the arguments. Because fundamentally an enormous swath of the people do not wish to be fair or honest.

The simple solution? A state government issued photo id with your voter registration number on it. Simple. Maybe you accept a state ID, a driver's license, a passport, or a concealed carry permit for that matter. OR maybe you make every person drag their ass down once in their ever so busy life and stand in line for a VOTER ID card. But SOMETHING that proves you are an American citizen that has at one point had some passing interest in governance and society. I unequivocally reject the notion that voting should be a "Zero Investment Activity". If you want a say in how the country, and thereby very much the world, runs it is NOT too much to ask that you show the barest sliver of interest and forethought. Frankly if someone has to tackle you outside a shopping mall and beg you to fill out the form - I do NOT want you influencing the course of civilization.

I will admit to an anti-liberal leaning. I say that because I'm not much happier with those calling themselves conservatives. But I have not seen a single proposal that was aimed, or could even be used for, anything other than curbing voter fraud. I do not understand why everyone is not 100% behind this. The only possible benefactors I can see from this fraud is allowing illegal aliens to vote. And yes I refuse to call them undocumented non-citizen guest residents.

Just organized -crime- ah make that organized labor flexing it's political might. Nothing really to see here. Minnesota has long had a uniquely perverse relationship with higher education. It's not surprising that the do nothing administrators and do little teachers would instruct their minions in government to issue this edict. I'm sure without federal preemption they'd force ISPs to block this invasion of their fiefdom.

Very likely not true. When one company buys another they take on all liabilities (like long term contracts and loans) as well as all assets (like cash and computers). I don't know, or particularly care, if Joyent is a different corporation or if textdrive just changed their name. But conceptually it doesn't actually matter. In practice of course you ALL the rights you can afford to prosecute in court. And NO others.

Before an Indian rocket goes to Mars it might be helpful if they, you know, built one? Last I heard, and a brief Google search doesn't seem to show any new progress, they were still using Russian engines on their cryogenic upper state. This was because they've been trying for 20 years to build a working engine, apparently without any measurable success at all. Somehow buying a Proton and trucking it to an Indian launch pad isn't quite the same as "an Indian rocket". Here is the link to last time I heard of actual hardware leaving the ground.