Yes, but the religion haters on Slashdot will do everything they can equate your church with CoS because so many of them are angry at Christianity and willfully ignore all of the contributions Christianity brings to society. I'm in the same boat as you, although I'm not Mormon, I'm Catholic which is another favorite target of Slashdotters.

As someone who is extremely colorblind, I have two different types, I have a tendency to stay away from games that rely on color. You are right, it is like seeing the world differently I suppose, because I have absolutely no idea what the world would look like otherwise. I imagine the world is much more bland to me than to other people.

Who does it belong to?

Anybody who would say this has obviously not been around the world. I don't need to justify wanting clean air by saying that America is the worst country in the world.

This was completely thought out and written about in Heinlein's The moon is a harsh mistress in 1966.

How the hell am I modded a troll? Grishnak mentions a particular scenario of a guy inheriting a $500k house and asks why should the guy have to lose the house because even though the house was free to him, the taxes on it are more than he can afford. I merely stated the fact that there are quite a few people in the US who believe that inheritance should be abolished. Whoever modded me down must not want people to realize this. It must have been the fact that I mentioned that Karl Marx was greatly in favor of abolishing inheritance.

Because a lot of these people crying out for these types of taxes do not believe your child should be allowed to benefit from what you worked for your entire life. Most of these people are students of Karl Marx and they want to abolish ALL inheritance in the name of "fairness". Anytime I hear somebody use the term "genetic lottery" it just makes me ill.

I'm a blonde haired, blue eyed, white guy and I have personally been taken out of line for a random search when there was plenty of Arabic and browned skinned people in line.

I must have grown up in a small isolated pocket of America, because I had absolutely no idea that most Americans, and including the government, were all racists bigots who want to target every brown person and make them suffer indignities.

Opensource, at least on the desktop, is NEVER going to take off. People are WAY too addicted to MS Office. People can argue with me, but it is just the culture of government employees.

I've been working 60+ hour weeks consistently for 13 years with a spike of 75+ hour weeks for a two year period, maintained a decent life with a wife and two kids, and you know what? I've been taking online courses for YEARS.

Go ahead work long hours because you have to, but don't become a vegetable because you DON'T have to. Don't let your job ruin your life man. There's always time for what you make of it.

What about retro gaming? If in 20 years you start feeling nostalgic, want to play the game you loved from now you just won't be able to. You would have to find someone with a used console that already has the game tied to it. No longer will you be able to find classic consoles on ebay and used retro games on Amazon.

My son NEVER buys new games. Hell, he can't afford them with the meager amount of money he gets from doing various chores. Also, if there are no used games, then when your console hits end of life you can no longer play it, just the games that you bought with it originally.

WOW. What a sinister plan you have there. We can give over control to somebody, and then when they exert that control we can enlist other people to help us control THEM. So by giving up control of our lives we are really gaining control over somebody else?

I like your style. I will choose to live in a city where I can't dig my own well, have somebody else pay the costs of running pipes to my house, then go to the pump plant, get in the way of their business and stop others from using their products. Then when they shut off my service I'll really flip a lid! All because I've become so accustomed to the convenience of it all that it is now my RIGHT to have it!

You ain't tryin!

I have never understood all of the craziness and paranoia surrounding "identity theft/fraud". As far as I'm concerned it is just bank fraud. A bank was tricked into thinking somebody was somebody else. If somebody takes a bunch of loans out in my name, I'll just refuse to pay. They have to PROVE IT WAS ME who got those loans.