I had a pretty good idea that it would be coffee, and not an empty cup. Nor did I feel the need to download five different coffees to find one that worked.

I don't want to have to think about whether an app is worth a dollar or not, so I don't even consider purchasing them. If they're worth so little they should just round it down to free.

The proper comparison would be that if you don't like gay marriage, don't marry someone of the same sex.

There's not much you can do about Jobs, Balmer, or Cook being assholes, but we probably can force Mozilla to kick Eich to the curb.

Now, assholes don't much care about being assholes, but this will make at least some of them think of the future implications of supporting something assholish like Prop 8.

And I did not say we could. I simply said we could stop using that oil.

But I'll be choosing something else now. Fuck the bioconservatives.

I really doubt there are many people in dorms with 5 digit /. UIDs.

Again, that oil specifically isn't necessary.

Not necessarily that oil.

Shouldn't run oil by rail or pipeline. Leave it in the ground.

In that you choose which rules to follow, and which to ignore, subvert, avoid, or not even bother learning about.

So, you seem to be saying this business model transfers wealth from the idle rich to those building things.

You seem to have some sort of objection to this, but I don't understand it.

What exactly were you smoking?

Taxes are what the rich pay for the privilege of staying out of the guillotine.

Repurposed plasma screens are just that; you're making use of a huge supply chain designed for providing TVs to provide for a special purpose application. It would cost rather a lot to produce 30" eink displays, and there aren't many people to spread the initial costs around.