That's the work-around they've found around democracy (first, and then) freedom, and they are applying it now, going full-throttle.

Good one. One I didn't dare to propose because I have no shred of any evidence.
Swiss bank accounts maybe?
(Or bitcoins, anonymously generated over TOR?)

As pointed out above, it was the board that was already decided at ditching the previous CEO and hiring Elop/MS instead.
Now, as Dilbert has pointed out, this was a strategic move of sheer genius, with which MS has realised three very strategic goals:
1. Windows phone introduced in the market,
2. Nokia, the biggest competitor for their own phone hardware sales ambitions has been crushed,
3. Linux as OS for the mobile phone has been disabled.
Luckily, there is still the Jolla (currently connection time out) initiative with Tizen.

The grand question: How did the Nokia board get played up so much by Microsoft?

Then the Americans have digged themselves deep into a pile of (fascist) shit for which there is no solution other then the next, very very bloody, revolution. (I'm hinting here at the 1 billion hollow-point bullets that the DHS recently ordered.)

...describes the areas and extent to which the federation's authorities supersede the state's.
As this is a state's ballot, it is in the state's legislature that anonymity has to be arranged.
Even more where the federal government hasn't gotten the authority over state ballots.

So, I think the judge was right, although I'm also very surprised by the fact that anonymity in ballots is not guaranteed.

I think the AC who posted the question originally,

was hinting to the fact that it implies that MS stores your passwords somewhere in plain text.
In other words, vulnerable for hack attacks.

Somebody who understands the consequences of this, please mod it up!

... is a contradiction in terminis.
Evidence proves, otherwise it's not evidence.

I didn't ask about disturbing the peace, I asked if arguing could land you in prison. For me that's something totally different.
To quote webster .com:

...you just don't dare to.
That's why you're a coward.
And that's also why soon you actually can't speak what you feel, because your right will be taken away from you.
Because you're a coward. :)

yes

..for arguing? Where in the law is that written?

The poster that I commented on, did not say anything about metal, nor was that what I was replying to.
I'm sure you didn't even take the time to read, Read, READ properly!

No, he did not!

Yes, you are right, but apart from that, I don't see another way of saving the battery from being exhausted long before the bar is bought, other than by activating the device either upon buying or on opening.