Characterizing Android as "just a copy" is blatant revisionist history. Work on Android started well before the iPhone was announced, let alone released.

Do you really think on campus Starbucks locations are operating at a loss? This just doesn't fit at all with the point you are trying to make.

Some android phones (Droid X2 for example) already have HDMI ports and support mirroring.

This isn't "a bit valid," it is just intentionally obtuse. No one will stop you from creating a new unit, but it will be your responsibility to do the conversion. Aside from that, the current definition of a second wasn't set by any government.

Are you really going to argue that, say, feudalism doesn't also mandate greed and love of money? You can even throw in more thorough and blatant suppression of the lower classes as a bonus.

Never-mind that you can still access your applications via icons, right?

The ability to quickly run typed commands is one of the only features I actually *like* in Windows (win-R). I'm more than happy to see it as a feature in GNOME.

I included both a biological group and a social group for a reason. Calling either one a "disease" would be frowned upon by most reasonable people, even if you do think choosing to join a particular social group is a poor choice.

As for obesity, yes, genetics play a role, but I don't know of a mechanism that has been found that allows a human body to create matter from nothing. Genetics can predispose people towards obesity, but you still have to consume more calories than you expend to gain weight.

Certainly obesity is more complicated than a single /. post can encompass, and I know I oversimplified for the sake of brevity. The point remains, however, that offering weight loss help is not remotely similar to offering to "cure" for loving the "wrong" type of person.

From the summary:

Replace "anti-homosexual" with almost any other "anti-GROUP" and it would be called hate.

Grouping people together and rallying against them is hate. No matter how nicely you word it. I realize this particular app isn't all that offensive in a direct way. The indirect implications, however, are obviously quite inflammatory.

Really? You think products to help people lose weight or stop smoking are even remotely in the same league as a "gay cure?"

How about a "cure" for being black? Or a "cure" for being a Christian?

Being overweight is the result of poor choices. Yeah, it sucks when people get picked on for it, but it is an unhealthy condition that can be changed. Offering people help with that process is not hate. Being gay is not a disease and it has no cure. Telling people that a basic part of who they are is a disease is hate.

Maybe Apple shouldn't ban apps at all, I'd prefer that myself. They've already started down that road, however, and hate speech isn't exactly an unreasonable thing to ban, if you are going to ban anything.

Ripping CDs for personal use is covered by fair use.

DVD ripping is only illegal because you have to circumvent encryption to do so, and the DMCA can then be used to do an end-run around your fair use rights. Audio CDs are not encrypted, so they are still fully covered under fair use.

I'm sorry, what?

By that same logic, city, county, or state prisons can legally beat and torture their prisoners, unless local law specifically prohibits it. No. Just No.

All those rights provided to citizens of the United States by the constitution and its amendments apply equally in every jurisdiction in the country, it doesn't matter if the police involved are local or federal.

Are you positive the ID request was related to the form of payment? Target has become very strict about checking ID for age restricted items, every time, for every customer.

The only time you should be asked for ID in relation to a credit card at Target is if the POS prompts the cashier, which it will only do if the authorization system sends back a message that something fishy might be going on with the card. My understanding is that this situation is perfectly acceptable - it is the credit card company's authorization system that requests the ID check, not the store. For a routine transaction at Target the cashier never even touches the card, let alone asks for ID.

Sure you can, we even have a proper name for it in geometry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_(mathematics)#Ray

You are assuming that the cheating accusation was made purely on a behavioral basis, and that is not a reasonable assumption to make. If it was determined the kid was cheating on a technical basis, the kid's autism is completely irrelevant.