I'd far rather pay a predictable first world tax rate and not have my business constantly mired in software patent troll cases and other expensive 'IP' nonsense than pay low taxes and have a completely unpredictable and potentially business-destroying IP environment. But that's just me.

Does this mean I have some hope of replacing the utter garbage currently installed in my wife's Ford (Microsoft Sync, I'm looking at you). The car itself is pretty good, but the phone/music/voice control system is like some sort of retarded throwback to the '90s, and I'm actually genuinely worried it'll reduce the resale value of the car in a few years.

Additionally, most vaccines are 'leaky' - they don't protect all the time for everyone, even if given on schedule. The vaccine for Hepatitis B, for example, doesn't produce antibodies in about 10% of people. Problem is, you can't tell if a given vaccine with a known leak rate will work for you or not, but if not, you benefit from herd immunity.

Amen, and thank you.

"Because I don't want my 12-year-old daughter to see that definition if she suddenly takes an interest in my disgust at the primary returns."

Well I don't want my 12-year-old daughter to be exposed to the repulsive, hate filled views Rick Santorum espouses and which Dan Savage was responding to with the 'redefinition' campaign, but since I don't get to stop Rick from spewing vile hatred, I'd rather my daughter discover that she lives in a society where a lot of people find Rick's attitudes reprehensible, even if it leads to a couple of awkward questions about sex.

Reminds me of a front page headline from a small town in Western Australia in the 1920s: "Half the town council are idiots!" When threatened with a libel lawsuit, the editor agreed to an equally prominent retraction, and sure enough published an equally prominent front page headline the next day: "Half the town council are not idiots!" Genius..

"without due process of law". The due process of law has been followed, now the judge is ordering her to obey the (flawed, stupid) law. Just because it's insane doesn't make it unconstitutional.

Err.. You already can. Alt-F2, then:
mail user@host.tld file.txt

if you want a subject line,

mail -s "Here's he file" user@host.tld file.txt

He wasn't arrested, he was 'detained'. You know, that handy status we've invented to get around constitutional niceties about arrest and due process.

On another note "shall in all cases, except .. breach of the peace" - the TSA could argue he was breaching the peace by refusing to adhere to their security theatre.

The Christian bible also commands people to lynch their neighbors for certain crimes. And lynchings certainly still occur in Christian-majority nations such as the United States over acts that are often considered prohibited by the bible, although legal under national law, such as being a gay male - see the Matthew Shepard case for example. Further, lynchings - ie extrajudicial punishments or murder - usually occur when the population committing the lynching knows full well that the state will not punish the 'crime' being committed. The KKK knew that the state would not punish or execute black Americans for being 'uppity' even in the South in the 50s, hence the extradjudicial lynchings and hangings. The young men who dragged Matthew Shepard behind a pickup knew the state would not punish or kill Matthew Shepard for being gay. There's nothing unique about Muslim lynch mobs either - like anywhere, they occur when people know full well that the regular state apparatus will not punish the 'crime' for them - either due to lack of ability (resources etc) or lack of willingness (the law does not actually consider the person or their acts to be criminal).