It's naivete in the extreme, bordering on intolerance, to lump everyone on earth into "Christians" and "reasonable people."

Sure, some people in agencies will abuse their power occasionally, thats human nature.

Something tells me your attitude would be a lot less casual if it was you or your loved ones who were wrongfully detained, indefinitely, without warrant and without trial, in the name of "security."

The real naivete is assuming that only the bad guys are the victims of misuse of power.

Ban jailbreakers from the app store. Then you don't get the 30% cut of the apps they would be legitimately buying anymore, and instead they'll just be forced to learn how to pirate the apps they want.

If there's consensus about what the Founders meant when they said something, there should not be difficulty in amending the constitution if its language is thought to be ambiguous. If there's no consensus, then it must be assumed that the Constitution means what it says. So yes, nuclear weapons are "arms." If you want to amend the constitution to forbid citizens from owning nukes, it should not be difficult to do so, since it's likely there's popular consensus on that matter.

I don't know how a religion is of any value unless it has opinions about how society should be. I don't know how you can express opinion about how society should be without saying how society should govern itself.

Saying "religions should not express views about political matters" is tantamount to saying "religions should not inspire their followers to do anything," and that's certainly prohibitive of the free exercise of religion.

If the Founders had meant that the militia had the right to keep and bear arms, why didn't they say "the right of the militia to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed"?

As a native, I can say with authority that a $30K/year pay cut isn't the worst part about living in Cincinnati.

Google gets hit by a hacker attack, and for that reason decides they're not going to do business inside an entire country anymore? This sounds extremely fishy. One of the richest tech companies in the world should have the money and know-how to establish peerlessly good electronic security...

...unless the people going after them are the Chinese government itself, in which case it would be reasonable for Google to believe that they will never have a safe haven for conducting operations in China without risking compromises to their security.

Who else but the government of China has the means (plenty of money), the motive (stopping Chinese human rights activists), and the opportunity (Google's conducting of operations within China) to scare Google this badly?

According to this article, this is not the first time, William Connolley is in the news. If anyone wants to check out his contributions at wikipedia, they are here.

Who is the author of TFA? Lawrence Solomon is author of the book The Deniers. Summary at amazon:

Global warming is a question for citizens, not just scientists. We must decide how serious the threat is and what to do about it. But how can we settle the fiercely complicated scientific issues involved? Al Gore?s answer is to rely on the argument from authority. Accept the word of the great scientists who really know, who say that global warming is real, caused primarily by humans and will lead to catastrophe if unchecked. The science is settled, and those who dissent are either crackpots or crooks. Eminent environmentalist Lawrence Solomon was not satisfied with Gore's answer. He decided to find out whether any real scientists dissent from the Gore/U.N. line. What he found shocked him. Not only were there serious scientists who dissented on every headline global warming issue, but the dissenters were by far the more accomplished and eminent scientists.

Other articles by Lawrence Solomon about wikipedia and climate change: Wikipedia's Zealots and Wikipropaganda.

Everyone should know that you have to pay an early termination fee if you get a 2 year contract with your free phone. That is how things work and if you don't want to pay it, put up with the phone you have for another 2 years (or less hopefully unless you JUST UPGRADED). More than likely if you are able to get by with your phone for any length of time you can also get by just as well for another year and a half before splitting to another provider that will shaft you just as much with the same sorts of fees.

While it's true that there are a lot of organizations that provide support for single mothers while remaining neutral on the right-to-abortion issue a great deal of officially anti-abortion groups/orgs do this activity while remaining vocal on their abortion stance. And whether or not the organization is "officially" anti-abortion does not change the fact that the individuals who make up the organization consider themselves "pro-lifers". Not all activists are militant sign-waving protesters. It's just those ones that get the most publicity because they put themselves in the media spotlight while these quiet activists choose an activity less in-your-face.

I'm an atheist myself, but you, sir, are begging the question. Religion is only deceptive towards their congregation if you take it as given that God does not exist. If we're wrong and God does, in fact, exist, then you are the one who is lying to everyone who reads your post.

That being said, I don't think I've ever answered a /. poll question with greater conviction. : )

Since when has it been otherwise?

Guess you don't understand what's going on then. Democrats don't need everybody. They just need enough Republican defectors to block filibusters and the like. They can't even get enough support from their own side. What sort of problems do they have when they can't even make deals with fellow Democrat senators?

Good thing I don't believe that then.