I have already commented in this thread and so can't use my mod points, but I would mod you if I could. Great post.

You are aware that TWC pays CBS to put their over the air broadcasts on their wire, and that this fight was precipitated by CBS demanding a large increase in that fee?

You do understand that it's the content providers that insist that, for example, if you want to carry ESPN down your wires, you also have to accept these other 50 channels of crap? And they need to be bundled together? Not always, but IME most of the time anyone is bitching about the cable company you should just substitute "content owner" (which granted sometimes the same parent corporation owns both). Cable companies should get chewed out for crappy set top box software, noisy lines, and back office servers crashing if you look at them funny. But not the bundling and the crazy fees.

Consider this my reply to both. I keep a sharp eye out for Scotsmen, if you know what I mean. What I think libertarians are, are what I see people who call themselves libertarian, or libertarian-leaning, or whatever other claims they make to the word, do. And they are all Republicans (yes, I know, small l and big L), and what they mostly seem interested in doing is burning the joint to the ground. It's nice that they are OK with weed and don't care much who rubs what against who, but it's not enough.

"Compare either or both of them to say, the Libertarian party and you'll see what actual differences are."

Yes, the first two look sane. Libertarians are the flip side of Marxists. Nice dorm-room wankfests, but utter train wrecks in the real world.

It was only a year ago that we had "the other side of the coin." They didn't cut teachers and teachers' salaries, curtail early voting, force nearly all the abortion clinics to close, and reduce corporate taxes even further. Are they similar in some ways? Yes, I'd say regardless of party the donor class gets fed first. But one is willing to let a few more scraps hit the floor. If that sounds like less than a ringing endorsement of the Democrats, you're reading me right. But to say there are no differences between them is to wrapped up in your own thought experiment, with no regard to the empirical data easily available by taking a look out your window.

I live in North Carolina. They are not the same team.

Actually, I like not living in Somalia and/or the 18th century. No where you may get me on your side is thinking about what we *get* for our nigh-fifty percent. Over in socialist Europe where they pay maybe 10% more than we do, they get free ("free" if you like) university for their kids, outstanding public primary and secondary schools, health care, pensions, guaranteed paid holidays from work, and a host of other things. I'm not sure how much we get, here in the states, aside from "getting" to shoulder the burden as all the wealth hoovers up into an aristocratic sliver of the population, who then captures government and gets their own taxes dropped through the floor. But, conservatives and their minions... what are you gonna do?

Bob Dole also brought it to the Senate floor. Squirm as you like, but the roots of Obamacare are firmly planted in conservative thought. I agree it's a bit of a Solomon's baby, though. Too bad there are so many people out there like you that pushed scared politicians (who just want to be re-elected, granted) away from single payer. But, as it has been pointed out, you are trivially reprogrammed, so I probably shouldn't hold you responsible.

You mean like pass his Jobs Act? Yeah, he's a total shifty slacker for not doing that.

I choose to pay taxes, just like I choose not to rape people. Would their be consequences if I were on the flip side of either? Sure, but that's not why I do it.

Damn, reading fail. My apologies.

Unlockable is not the same as "unlocked." Did your phone come out of the box with an unlocked bootloader? Mine did not, although once adb was set up it was trivial to do it myself.

Pedantic point: the Galaxy Nexus I got from Verizon did not come with an unlocked bootloader. It was trivial to unlock it, though. Perhaps you meant phones purchased directly from Google?

Also, my reply to the parent's question of best ROM (there are limitless opinions about this, so this is nothing more than my own): JBSourcery ROM is my favorite, mainly because of JBSourcery Tools. There's nothing there you can't do with other ROMs... they just make it really easy to do things like drop in alternate kernels, change your fonts system wide, change icon sets for the status bar, etc. CyanogenMod is a perfectly solid choice, too, and probably has more eyeballs on it.

Fellow North Carolinian and parent here. Would you mind giving me the name of the school? I'd like to learn more about it.