Also note that culture can be influenced by many different directions. Hideo Kojima, whom some of you may know, appears to have felt a similar burden:
"If our children today don't have any dreams, we creators are guilty for not giving them dreams. We are culpable. We must create a dream to leave behind for the sake of our children."
-Hideo Kojima-

Their site http://www.raspberrypi.com/ has had the same "Down for Maintenance" message for at least a month. Is it actually possible to purchase one of these (in the US)?

Based on the documents, it looks like Facebook even was able to provide deleted wall posts and friends.

Unless these laws only specify rights, and not restrictions, then creating laws will only create further restrictions on freedom.

Let freedom be access to all values in a set. Let a law define a subset of freedom. Laws do not define additional freedom, but rather restrict it. If laws are added continuously, without removing laws, you are left with the intersection of all of these laws, which will get narrower and narrower (smaller subset). Advocating the creation of laws should be frowned upon. We should advocate the removal of laws and addition of rights.

First off, Kennedy did not look 66 prior to death and Obama has said "My grandfather was gray by the time he was 29 [...] So I figured it was going to come. It just happened to coincide with the presidency." Perhaps you are the one who is "morally bankrupt and personally repugnant" for discriminating based on age and looks. I am in my twenties and care more about a candidate's political beliefs than appearance. I am not trying to elect a movie star and I hope that enough voters will side with me on that.

So, you are saying Ron Paul is an excellent candidate, but you are discounting him based on age alone? I hope you are not in a role of hiring employees...

Why are campaign contributions allowed? Would it be possible to ban these? If not, due to the people 'in power', it seems like our system needs better checks and balances in this respect to better enforce the will of the people. Are people just voting in bad apples or is the entire political system corrupt? Does a majority of the people really believe in the things that are occurring, or has control been taken away from those in the general public?

Should the legal system really be messing with things like this? Sure, it is annoying, but I don't think that laws should be created because some dude doesn't feel like turning his volume down during commercials. Laws should only maintain peace, if anything, and I don't think that this issue is causing many deaths.

Based on the documents contained in the parent post, it sounds like your company or organization would be acting as a government contractor. As with similar contractor work, you submit a full proposal with bid. This in no way relates to how an app store may work.

PDF with full details available at:
https://www.fbo.gov/spg/ODA/DARPA/CMO/DARPA-BAA-12-11/listing.html

Press release at:
http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2011/12/05.aspx