Actually, the Republicans had rather a lot to do with the drafting of it, even if none of them voted for it in the end. It went a lot like this:

R: If you remove X, I might vote for it.

Obama: OK, it now doesn't have X.

R: Psyche! Not good enough, sucker. Hahaha! But seriously, if you add Y, then I might vote for it.

Obama: OK, it now has Y.

R: OMG! Everybody, come look at Y! That's Death Panels! Obama wants to kill your grandmother!...

Well, you could try voting in the primaries this time too. That's the only election that actually scares our lawmakers, so that's where an impact can really be made.

That's the realization Lessig's MAYDAY PAC recently came to.

I mouse with my left hand, so the G300 works better for me, but otherwise I'm doing the same. I don't even care that much about the price, but the mouse itself has been far more reliable. I think I bought it somewhere on the order of 3 years ago, and its still going strong.

Its annoying to have to go twiddle with their preset uploading software every time my computer comes back from sleep mode, but otherwise I'm really pleased with it.

I quit buying Razer mice, because not only were they consistently dying on me after a year or two, but they do it in a horrible way for a gamer. They will just stop responding to input for a little while. The "little while" will slowly start to get longer and happen more often. This is absolutely deadly (virtually of course) if you are playing a real-time game. Trivial perhaps, but if I'm buying a wired gaming mouse, my #1 demand is that it reliably takes input. If I can deal with random cutouts, there are plenty of $5 mice out there I could buy.

I haven't noticed quite the same issue with their keyboards though. Have they been having quality issues too?

This is the typically-given reason for all department stores being designed with the perfume counter in front of the door. Supposedly it helped cover up the stench of all the "horse pollution" coming from the street.

Interestingly, in the USA the dialect of English spoken in the rural Appalachians is often claimed to be the closest thing you will find to Elizabethan English in the modern world. It is simultaneously probably the single least prestigious dialect of English in North America.

(Note: "Prestige" is how linguists talk about dialects being perceived as wrong or bad by other speakers. IOW: Most people will tell you someone speaking this dialect has "bad English". Irony.)

Funny you should bring this up as your example of an absolute rule. "Correct comma placement", is actually the source of biggest ongoing stylistic argument in the English language: the Oxford comma. Its like the "vi vs. Emacs" of the literary world. This is one of the strongest arguments you could have picked supporting the point you were looking to refute.

Massive example fail.

It is likely that your friend is not alone with her condition. Try to discuss it with others who are affected, and who have already been through the stages that lay ahead of her. People with motor control issues successfully use vertical mice, touch screens, keys for navigation, gaze trackers, voice recognition, non-standard input methods such as the Dasher accessibility tool, or tailored input methods.

Yes, but at least I have a hope of keeping myself informed of all the laws governing the political entities I live in. There is no possible way for a single human being to know and keep on top of all the laws governing behavior and speech in every country, county, state, city, etc. in the entire world. So one of them trying to enforce their internal laws on the entire world is patently ridiculous.

Doesn't seem like much of the same thing to me. That was an instance of someone doing something they could be jailed for where they were at the time, who happened to use Facebook to do it.

The idea that I can be arrested for saying something that's perfectly legal where I said it by any country in the world that choses to pass a law against it is completely unworkable. Picture a dystopia where nobody ever speaks, because pretty much anything that can be said is illegal somewhere. Or even one where that doesn't help, because some country passed a law against being silent.

The problem with that logic is that the sentence is actually slightly inaccurate. Hillary comes from a Republican family. She actually was an establishment Republican before she married Bill and was essentially forced to switch parties. So what this really tells you is how far to the right the Republican Party has moved.

Assuming you hadn't already noticed this by little things like them decrying Richard Nixon's health care scheme as a Communist Government takeover, or insisting that political positions held by Ronald Regan are a sure sign of anti-Americanism.

Are you sure? Because they actually did this exact thing, and not only do I not see you saying anything of the sort, I don't even see any indication that you remember it happening. In fact, they uncovered emails from Rove specifically instructing White House employees to break the law and use personal email, and some where he actually complained when people didn't comply. So this wasn't ignorance or oversight, it was active malice.

From where I sit, it looks like there's only a big stink now because the alternate Republican media establishment wants to attack what looks like might be their POTUS opponent in 2016, and this is the best they could come up with. We know for a fact that if this was a Republican it would quickly be forgotten, because it recently was, and you just demonstrated that you'd forgotten it.