The customer is the employer that is paying for the coverage.

No, the recipient is the customer because it is part of their benefits package. Their employer is simply negotiating on their behalf.

No, the customers are bitching because they are being forced to pay for services that violate their religion.

The fucked up thing about this statement is that you see the corporation as the customer and insist that the corporation has a religion. Of course, opposition to contraceptives is idiotic, but that's pretty much true of most superstitious beliefs.

You are basically saying that the government decides what coverage needs to be provided and not the people.

No, I'm saying that the government should push to ensure that the people get access to coverage that corporations want to cynically refuse in favor of unscientific, superstitious ideals.

Since when is consumer choice allowing corporations "to run roughshod over you"?

Because the average healthcare consumer doesn't really have any choice, putting all the power in the hands of corporations.

in order to fix your non-existing problem

Are you being willfully ignorant here?

you are forcing people to pay for something they neither want nor need.

A lot of people neither want nor need public schools, they pay for them anyway.

Wouldn't it have made more sense to pass a law that says insurance companies must offer contraceptive coverage to the customers that want it?

I believe that happened. And now the corporations are bitching.

Rather than considering to a religious thing, think of it from a liberal point of view; you are forcing gay men to pay for contraception and maternity coverage that they obviously don't need.

It isn't a religious thing explicitly - it's a cynical "conservative" ploy to attack and undermine the ACA by using religion as a means to cut out parts of coverage. Note, of course, that this all simply means that these services are covered and must be paid for if utilized, this attack on the ACA is about pushing to make sure it's not available at all.

I am totally okay with the rest of my fellow citizens boycotting them, protesting out in front of their headquarters or whatever, but government should do nothing.

Which works real well when every business in a region acts in a discriminatory manner approved by the majority. Government is then obligated to step in and protect the rights of the minority - even if that includes prohibiting destructive discriminatory and prejudicial behavior.

Basically all the civil rights legislation that has passed is fundamentally anti freedom though and should be in my interpretation of the first amendment UN-Constitutional

Anti-freedom for the ignorant, fearful, and hateful. But it promoted the freedom of those who were being systematically targeted by such deleterious behavior.

Cultural mis-reference!

Patlabor! I just want to know if the robot was named "Griffin."

I'll wager that this compositor is temporary until Debian ships Wayland and Nvidia has drivers that work with it. This thing is still running Xorg, just using a customized compositor.

Gaming is kiddy shit (sorry)

Good to see who the mature one is(n't) here.

So what you're saying is now that GM is independent, they should be broken up so that they can no longer be "too big to (be allowed to) fail."

It's worse than that. When I was a kid I was interested in programming before I ever had access to computers at school that could support it. I did Visual Basic and Delphi at home on the family PC, and also on the 386 it replaced that I had commandeered. It was at least 3 years before I was in a position to buy my own.

I feel sorry for the coming generation of kids who will know nothing but locked down, hostile devices that will have to convince their parents that they need a real computer, particularly if their parents are computer averse.

Provided that the other students haven't already reserved all the PCs at the library.

And that you can do anything on the PCs anyway. A lot lock them down, and even fewer probably come with compilers or scripting environments.

How generalized do you want to get? I mean you can get seriously non-specific about it then lose people as you meander through the thought experiments, or give them a base to start from.

On the other hand, education about how computers function might start to ablate this "black box" that computers are. That hands-off, "I can'tpossibly understand" attitude is what makes the average person so susceptible to malware.

Because Big Corporation is better?

Wayland. On every one of these Jolla devices. X11 was being used early on until recent versions of Qt were released, which added the Qt Compositor API, allowing them to create their own compositor (and do some rather interesting things.)

It's also interesting to note that Wayland just shipped on a device. So much for it being "hard to fit into a mobile device." Thanks to libhybris, they just wrap the Android blob for the GPU and continue on like a standard glibc-based Linux system.

Yes, because the moment we decide "we don't need any more OSes" is the moment we decide that "innovation" is done and nothing new is to be had unless it comes from Google, Microsoft, or Apple. And that's a bad, bad state to be in.