Thats generally the way it already works. Any state and local taxes paid can be deducted from your federal taxes owed

The problem with this line of reasoning is that AT&T's agreement with Apple at the launch of the original Iphone was that Apple would handle all warranty and service work on the iphone. This was in the original contract, and I doubt that it has changed.

how is this any worse than "Something happened"? lack of useful error messages has historically been a hallmark of windows.

Daleks are not robots. you, sir, are no Doctor.

Except for the elections where there are only two candidates and both are pro spying, so you're fucked no matter who you choose.

You are setting up a false dichotomy here that implies that the majority could in fact vote for someone who would stop the spying. Alas, that just doesn't seem to be true these days.

When both sides are invested in propping up the status quo, everybody loses.

you're making a false equivalency. You seem to be under the misapprehension that netflix is currently available unencumbered with DRM. This is not the case. Netflix currently utilizes drm through microsoft's silverlight plugin on firefox. All this is doing is switching drm technologies, which will assist them in deprecating NPAPI. It is not adding DRM to a previously unencumbered distribution channel. It seems silly to be this up in arms over what really amounts to nothing more than a technology shift.

it was implied that he wishes not to do without, therefore for him, there are only 2 viable options to get the content he wishes to consume.

netflix hasn't worked on linux in firefox since they released the silverlight plugin. it might start doing so now that there is an html5 pathway, but mono was not able to incorporate the silverlight drm which would allow netflix to work over linux,

99% of all alarms are false alarms. The police don't like wasting resources chasing down false alarms. In most jurisdictions you have to have a permit, which allows a certain number of "free" false alarms, after which you get charged a fee every time they dispatch to a false alarm. for residential alarms it's usually around $50. but for commercial sites I've seen it as high as $500. per dispatch. Furthermore if you are repeatedly having false alarms in a short period of time, the police will generally inform you that they will no longer dispatch to your site until you provide proof that the faulty alarm has been replaced/repaired.

how can you have a birthrate below zero? if everybody stopped reproducing today, wouldn't that merely result in a birthrate of 0?

I've seen them at walmart, target, and best buy.

in addition to points made by others here, there's also another issue. Say the mother wins absolves the father of any legal responsibilities for the child that is born. The child grows up, develops some sort of rare disease or is involved in a horrible accident. The child tracks down the father for spare parts, i.e. bone marrow or a kidney. This now puts him in an awkward position that would never have occurred without this decision. if the disease presents itself during childhood, can the father then be compelled to provide donor material?

do you really think Mitt Romney would have done anything differently with regard to the security theater? He is on record repeatedly as being in support of domestic spying as well as increased military spending. Romney would not have changed anything. the only thing that might be said in support of him is that at least he woudl've been more open about it.