Just a heads up to let you know I'm shameless stealing that comment for my own use in the future.

This is an instance where it has to be because of the full faith and credit clause of the US Constitution: "Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state. And the Congress may by general laws prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof (Article IV, Section 1)." If it's allowed in one state another state must recognize it by constitutional law (note that this doesn't apply to state-specific certifications for things like teaching, civil engineering and so forth). One of the more puzzling aspects of the Defense of Marriage Act was, to me, why the Supreme Court ruled in the act unconstitutional based on Section Three, not Section Two which blatantly contradicts the full faith and credit clause.

In some (not all mind you) cases it's because a person struggles to make ends meet working 80 hours a week and sees other people who work 40 hours a week taking home three times his/her pay and wonders why he or she isn't getting the same breaks.
Now, we can unpack that last sentence until Hell freezes over but at the end of the day most of us in the US are tied to this idea that life ought to be fair (or at least unfair in our favor, to quote Bill Waterson).
Personally I don't object to bankers making a great deal of money. Unless of course they were those bankers who managed to crash the national economy and put a decent-sized dent in the global economy and not serve any jail time because the Justice Department decided these pricks were too valuable to prosecute.

Actually the FCC tried to reclassify ISPs as common carriers in 2010. There was a partial vacuum created in the ISP buildings as their lobbyists vacated the premises at record speeds in a race to Congress to bribe, er petition, their pet congresscritter to put pressure on the FCC until it decided to leave things alone. (I can't find the original story but it's been referenced in several stories about the JAN2014 debacle) In all likelihood the FCC is trying to figure out ways around the reclassification scheme since it blew up in their face last time.

I tend to cycle through my older games and apply newer mods for a tweak here and there. I play through the entire BG saga once every two years or so, with added quests or rules changes from third-party individuals. I've got a mod for Oblivion that strips out the main quest and turns the game into a wide-open sandbox and I have a few characters. As for recent games, Torchlight II is my current crack. Yeah, yeah, yeah it's really similar to Diablo, but who doesn't want a pet alpaca that can summon the undead?

I had just the opposite happen. I bought Skyrim when it first came out and it was buggy as hell (crashed after I finished the first quest, repeatedly). Months later after all the patches had been pushed out, I still can't get the damn game to get past the first point without crashing. Oblivion runs smoothly, cleanly, and once I added a mod that stripped out the main quest (damn Oblivion portals!) it equaled Morrowind in playability.

Now now now, that just won't do. This is Slashdot after all. If we're not putting our elitism on full show, what are we here for?

I don't run a server. I run Linux on my desktop and my tablet (Mint on a Dell XPS12). Am I no longer part of the audience?
(Please note that I don't have enough technical knowledge to debate Upstart vs systemd. I dislike being dismissed as not part of the "audience" because I don't use Linux in the same way you do.)

Let me preface this by saying I'm strongly against the TimeWarner-Comcast merger, that I strongly support net neutrality, and that my bullshit alarms went off during the first paragraph of the article. That being said, Slashdot shouldn't not run a piece just because most of us here will disagree with the ideas being expressed. At the very least we have some idea of what our enemy's tactics will be when the court fights start.

The FCC tried to do that in 2010. The lobbyists got involved and the FCC backed down in the ensuing political shitstorm. (Source: NPR).

Blah blah blah the Man's out to keep me down. It's amazing how easily we can justify inaction if we invent a conspiracy to oppress us.

Right, I understand the quack perspectives behind homeopathic medicine. What I fail to understand is how the Kremmy is equating the principles of homeopathy and the principles of vaccinations, unless I'm fundamentally misunderstanding how vaccinations work. Or I'm fundamentally mis-reading what Kremmy is trying to communicate, which is always a possibility.

Please elaborate? I'm not following that train of logic.

Defecation is just as natural (and more common) than childbirth but having a loud and explicit conversation about how big of a turd you just left in the men's room will probably get you reported to HR. Granted, I'm not likely to discuss such a thing but if I'm required to tailor my conversation to the sensitivities of other, they could show me the same courtesy and tailor their conversation to my sensitivities (within reason of course, I'm not talking about two people arguing over politics).

Our paladin was a descendant of a long-collapsed civilization and had a personal grudge against the death god in that campaign (she took his leg, longer story). We stumbled across one said civilization's ancient ruined cities to find it now housed worshipers of said death god. After clearing the lot of them out, the paladin took it into his head to destroy the altar of the death-god in the chapel, figuring to sanctify the city on the way out. Unfortunately his warhammer wasn't cutting it so he pulled out the biggest spell in his arsenal. This ended up leveling the chapel and destroying one of the last remaining vestiges of the paladin's ancestors. He was rather grouchy with the GM for a while after that.