So why should a genetic predisposition to lower intelligence be less protected than a religious choice?

Personally, I think a private business should be able to do business with whomever it chooses, but I am curious as to why people draw the arbitrary lines that they do.

But it wasn't used politically (certainly not in any mass way) until Nov. 5th, 2007.

These masks first started being used, outside and after the movie, during certain fringe Ron Paul events. They were initially brought into the spotlight during a Paul moneybomb, on the 5th of November, 2007. Then the first Tea Party in 2007 (another Ron Paul fundraiser) and it was at the later Tea Parties that these masks continued to grow. The OWS came along, where the masks really took off. OWS was partly a reaction to the Tea Party, but ironically enough, a good quarter of the most active, early participants, were the same people I'd see at the early Tea Parties (both movements initially protesting the banker bailouts). And now we have many form OWS helping out in the campaign. Of course he's serious, because Ron Paul kick started this whole thing and has been at the center of it throughout.

How do you wipe a defective drive? Sometimes you have a small window before it dies, sometimes it won't power up at all. It's up to the refurbisher to refurbish it into a like new condition, and that includes wiping any data (which should naturally occur anyway as part of testing).

That being said, unless it's an encrypted drive, I won't typically send it back, eating the cost.

You would prefer instead the "good hearted" politicians who are for indefinite detention and the assassination of American citizens?

You don't have to agree with anti-abortion people, but so long as you're honest with yourself, and understand that for them, that baby is a human life entitled to the same civil liberties of the mother, then you wouldn't be so confused by the "apparent" contradiction.

Why would a tablet be a better form factor for netflix, amazon VOD, or hulu? Why would I want an expensive console just to stream video? I have a 3D TV and I never use the 3D (I've got nothing against it, but there's nothing to watch). I do however use the apps quite a bit.

I'll only ever log into google through chrome. If I want to search the web, I'll use firefox. Don't see the point of crossing the two.

I once had high hopes for Google+ but Google seems to be screwing up on so many levels now, integrating g+ into everything else (dumbing everything else down in the process), while not getting around to properly integrating other google services into g+.

People have been begging for noise/circle controls forever now. Well I controlled the noise by not logging in anymore. They really needed to get that site out of beta first before trying all this squirrely shit. Actually, they just need some competent management.

Even if that were true, and it's not, then I'd still rather go with the "gut instinct" of the guy who predicted the housing crash on the floor of the congress back in 2002, to all the other candidates who have been telling me that "we're in recovery" from 2007 onward.

What you call rigidity, others call principle. And it's sorely missed in Washington. I'll happily vote for someone who's rigidly anti-SOPA.