I mean, it makes no sense for the Author's Guild to castigate Amazon yet remain silent in regard to Apple. Since anything Apple immediately hits the airwaves
I think you have the reason why the Author's Guild is being silent. Their blathering about the TTS feature against Amazon was ridiculed by everyone that heard the story. The only reason they didn't get more ridicule was that the story wasn't broadly heard. Put Apple in the story and everyone would be ridiculing them.
As for adoption, I know gay couples who have adopted, and in all cases the kid is far better off than they were in the care of the government.
Almost ALL kids are better off after being adopted then being in the care of the government. Gay or straight adoptive parents has nothing to do with it.
Most of the f'd up people in this world are the direct result of a HETEROSEXUAL union.
With the exception of the relatively very small amount of sperm donations to lesbian mothers, ALL f'd up people are a result of a heterosexual union. Coincidentally, and with the same exceptions, ALL non-f'd up people are also a result of a heterosexual union.
I'd love to see a study following kids who go through foster homes vs. kids in homosexual adoptions.
There was a study not that long ago showing the children of lesbian parents fare better than most of their peers. However, as the linked article explains, the biggest reason for this is "[t]hese are not accidental children".
There is no check to our exploitation
Seems like that statement is incongruous with the following:
and it will be the end of us.
require a certain number of trained/intelligent people to continue to operate
Lack of food and fresh water will crash our population
Short of gouging out my eyes so I can't see billboards while I drive home...
Or you could move to Seattle's eastside, especially along I-90. First time I drove a long that stretch I was amazed at the lack of billboards. Especially compared with I-15 in the Salt Lake metro area.
Also, the copying of "the book you're writing for O'Reilly" WOULD be copyright infringement as long as you have written copyright info in it somewhere
You don't have to write any copyright info in it. The moment you write anything, it is copyrighted. You do have to register it to file suit however. Which means you can add copyright infringement to "take pictures of every page of your diary". Though you'd have to register your diary before filing that infringement suit.
Open Source seems to stress quality over speed to market.
Where there's a will, there's a relative.