Jesus also said, since you like trying to quote him: "I didn't come to destroy the law, but to fulfill it." Meaning the sins enumerated in Mosaic law are still applicable, you just don't have to do a shit-ton of ceremony anymore to be forgiven of them. All the "anti-gay stuff" came from God to his followers. It's not "other people." Stay away from relgiious commentary. You don't have the chops.

Frankly you should really read more about Christianity. I don't think you have a flippin' clue about the Bible or Jesus. Jesus also said "I didn't come to destroy the law, but to fulfill it." That means the law was still there, but doctrinally you were no longer required to provide the Mosaic sacrifices for your sins. So what God called a sin to the Hebrews STILL applies, even though Jesus became the ultimate sacrifice for your sins. Eich was forced out after a coordinated effort WITHIN mozilla to oust him because they hated his views on gay marriage. You can even read that at CNET. You really should try and keep up.

One of those sins God specifically got his followers to write down? Homosexuality. Pretty clear, but that has nothing to do with government or liberty. It's a sin, but you're not going to be arrested for it anymore because we have indvidual liberty and a separation of church nad state in America.

Now, if you want to argue the LEGAL portion of "gay marriage"... government should remain silent on RELIGIOUS issues. And you should really be concerned that the government that has enshrined in its founding document the FREEDOM of religion and the FREEDOM from religion, now has a stake in a RELIGIOUS ceremony like marriage.
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I'm still friggin' baffled that after all this time people still spread the SAME lies about Eich's forced resignation.

Forced to resign. And no, he was CEO for a friggin week. The guy had a target on his back for years at Mozilla, because he believed something other people didn't like. (And for the record.... if we're serious about church and state, the government should be COMPLETELY out of marriage, which is a religious institution.) There are dozens of legal remedies for property, rights of parters, etc. that don't require the government to interfere in religious practices.

He was forced out of his job by the mob. Mozilla capitulated because Eich donated PERSONALLY to Prop 8 efforts. Nice try. When he was Chief Technology Officer, people inside Mozilla were aching to get rid of him because of his Catholic beliefs. It's not in dispute, even from secular news. If you think you have a better explanation, I'm sure Brendan and Mozilla (and the rest of the Internet) would love to hear it.

Then stay out of our business. If it's hosted in 'Murica, don't expect your anti-speech provisions to take hold.

I smell bullshit, but for a very different reason. I don't believe capitalism is doing a majority of people harm. What's doing them harm is the government picking winners. They have no business doing so. The rates of poverty in the world have gone through the floor and economic growth has pulled billions of people out of the shitter (so to speak.) Capitalism is not like socialism... where adherence requires force. Capitalism is the natural order of a society. It is the evolution of bartering, guilds, etc. into an egalitarian system that has equality of opportunity. The only role of government in a free economy is to mediate disputes and intersections of liberty.

Socialism and central planning relies on equality of outcome (by force if necessary) to maintain the level of control a government entity needs to survive. And our economic growth has been at high rates in spite of regulation, and those countries that return to a more free market economy enjoy a spurt that helps us all.... even those of us mired in stupid centrally planned idiocy.

State owned businesses are a bad idea. Worker owned businesses are state owned businesses in utero. Relying on central planning is the undoing of prosperity and freedom. We've seen nations try it and fail, and those we hold up as "Democratic Socialists" have much less regulation than even the US. So, we really should be arguing how we can keep what we have and stop the encroachment of bureaucracy and government interference. Without those impediments, people thrive.

Wilsonian "Managed Capitalism" and the Bull-Moose "Ordered Capitalism"... in other words, free markets in name only, and oligarchies for everyone (up to, but not including 1%) :)

Feely-feely words like "collective good" "common good" "the people's good" etc. are just a sideshow. The San Fransisco Ministry of Thought will help everyone transition to newspeak. :-)

The irony there is when you visit, there's not a single place to park.

Regardless of the slant of the "King of Kong" documentary, I agree wholeheartedly that these people are a special kind of jerks. :) I found Mitchell to be one of those high school folks desperately clinging to the past (in his case, high scores) and trying everything to cash in on it (hot sauce ventures, etc.)

The problem with all this is the planet has moved on, with some tiny exceptions. No one seems to care either way about Mitchell's success, past or present. But the last one to noice is Billy Mitchell. He's not doing himself (or his image) any favors by making his critics' characterization of him as an arrogant asshole look correct. (Mitchell's spent years claiming the KoK documentary was edited to make him look like an ass. Now this lawsuit happens and removes the ambiguity.)

Yeah, it's SO terrible out here in the 3rd world without benevolent government oversight and regulation. Wow, I don't know HOW I wake up in the morning with all this non-regulated living I'm doing here. I will have to manage, but I think I'll live.

My guess is, it'll be at most two or three states (California, New York, perhaps Illinois) with heinous rules, and the other states will be like things are now. Like I said earlier, TCP routes around blockages. It's built into its DNA. :) ISPs will just have to weigh the costs of doing business with the states that insist on mucking things up in the name of a blanket, over-politicized term "Net Neutrality".

You assume that dems are capable of accepting 2016's loss. They aren't. If this attempt fails, it will happen again, and goodness knows if Trump wins 4 more years, the DNC can thank their litigious and vindictive impeachment train for it. God help us all if we have ANOTHER 4 years of DNC whining. I liked the party better when they didn't move left of Mao.

The FCC wasn't correct, and that's the problem with the NN rules as Obama saw them. The internet is not a phone, and it certainly isn't a right. No matter what the UN says. The issue is, packets are _not_ the same, as anyone who works with switches and routers know, and traffic-shaping will and needs to occur in order to have any sense of normalcy within the big tent of the Internet. It's laughable that the pro-NN crowd ignored this technical point in order to prevent "fast lanes". If you pay more, you get a bigger pipe. Just like if you pay more, you get a faster car. Your slower car works just fine on the roads, but we don't cripple the fast car so that the slow car can feel better about itself.

On a larger note, the ideas that we revert to the Teddy Roosevelt "Corporate Nationalism" by turning everything into a centrally-planned shithole makes me wonder if these people ate lead paint as kids. I'm fine with California ruining their infrastructure in the name of "social justice" or whatever hell else that monolithic one-party state wants to call it. The key is to keep that out of other states' backyards. The Internet routes around stupidity and blockages. That's the beauty of TCP/IP. :-)

And as for NN: When someone comes up with a reasonable definition and stop politicizing it, I'll listen. Obama's NN rules weren't it.

Most failures in life want the government to enforce equality of outcomes. :-) It's a byproduct of not working for a living, near as I can tell.