Under that reasoning, laws of physics are just another external constraints. As are laws of Moses.

Luckily, Mozilla is not in the business of handing out marriage certificates, so the CEO's opinions on that narrow issue don't affect what the company does.

How about a certain northern state?

... but some people are being threatened with jail for it.

Government employees are being compensated for their service. The recipients of welfare are being compensated for their mere existence. Difference in kind.

Rumack, Randy: [together] It's an entirely different kind of flying.

True - though in the long run, whether the debt is repaid by grandchildren, inflation, or default, the taxpayers will suffer for it.

You might be assuming that this is an unintended consequence.

Why could it not be lassoing in the next generation of statist voters by offering them loan forgiveness (paid of course by taxpayers).

Not to mention? But you just mentioned it!

Some of the money may have gone to a good cause. Lots went to bad causes, earning the "corruption" label. (The mob does a good deed once in a while too.)

And of course, nationalizing the industry killed the goose that laid the golden egg, so in the long term, even the "good cause" was unsustainable. And in the socialist paradise, that "long term" took all of five or six years to turn to crap.

"Why should they call an elected president, for incompetent he were, a dictator."

Because he sought and accepted an "Enabling Act", letting him rule by edict. Just like his predecessor Chavez. And Hitler.

Whatever "neither" means, it's certainly different from "other".

They should've added "potato" and "potaahto".

"on Medicare and are forcing me to pay for the sickness"

You are stuck on the well-predicted slippery slope: acceptance of socialized-welfare programs leads to pressure to micromanage people's lives (to minimize cost of said social-welfare programs). The former leads inexorably to the latter. If you don't like the intrusion of the state into your body, perhaps you shouldn't support nanny medicare-like programs either.

Such money questions are improper, since they declared themselves non-profit - isn't that inoculation enough? (One wonders how one might plan to turn a profit on a one-way robot ship trip. Sponsorship stickers?)

Briefly reading TFA, these guys are analyzing people's reactions to various privacy-warning user interface options. Their baby app that heuristically monitors location-api usage is far less capable than xprivacy or its kin of android tools.