Medicaid did not cover anything like this, particularly not dental or vision, during that period in my life when I was on it. When did they start?

None of those things except possibly ritalin in some cases are currently covered under any government plan that exists, so why do you even bring them up? and if ritalin is deemed medically necessary why should it not be covered?

The issue with health care is not whether it's provided or not. The issue is that people are going bankrupt when their insurance refuses to pay, or it cost to much for them to pay the premiums so they didn't have any in the first place.

Thank you. I don't think I ever saw it explained in quite those terms, and they were apparently just the terms my brain was looking for.

I know this is not a popular idea with a lot of people, particularly those working in places where "OMG speed is critical," but Python's execution speed just doesn't matter compared to its readability and time/LOCs required to get up off the ground and running.

I have heard this perspective before but found that when you have a team of developers that share this philosophy, you end up with VERY slow software. When you are writing software used by one person maybe you can focus on readability, but if you're dealing thousands or millions of users, forget about it. Readability does not have to come at the cost of efficient code either. There are very few occasions where making code fast makes it very confusing. In fact, I would argue that there is a lot of slow code that is very confusing to me. If people take the time to optimize it, it usually is easier to understand because there are no un-needed execution. In these few cases where very fast code is a little hard to understand, you just need to add a few lines of documentation to explain what you're doing.

I wouldn't have a problem with DRM...

If it didn't violate the First Sale Doctrine.
If it didn't violate the principal of Fair Use.
If it didn't violate my right to format shift.
If it didn't violate my right to backup my data as many times as I want, in any way that I want.
If it didn't violate my right to use my content on any device I want.
If it didn't violate my right to use my content whenever I want and without expiration, even in the event that the content provider no longer exists.

These are all rights that content providers have not been able to bribe politicians to take from us in the US.
These are all rights that DRM can strip away, by making the expression of these rights impossible without circumventing DRM and doing that is criminalized under the DMCA.

And it's not like these "blocks" are actually compiled and linked at run time, it's just a pointer to a static function with a bunch of extra data on it.

Not true, blocks can use any variable from the calling context and it will be incorporated at runtime. These are not just function pointers to static methods.

Yes. It was a civil case rather than a criminal one, but Food Lion won against ABC in Food Lion v. Capital Cities/ABC. On the other hand, half of the verdict was reversed on appeal. On the gripping hand, the portion of the verdict that was sustained awarded FL a whopping $2.00.

4th Circuit Court of Appeals case number 97-2492. (My access to LN is broken so I'm not going to provide the West cite. Frakking West.)

I go to Berkeley, so it of course does.

I graduated in May, and my school did support Linux until my last year there. By supported I mean "let me get online with." The 'support' ended when they enabled the Mac OSX client for Cisco Clean Access NAC (AKA the biggest evil in the known universe), and in turn disabled the web login form. You could still go give them your MAC address for a device that wasn't running XP, Vistaids, or OSX, but they only allowed this for Xboxes, PS3s, and Wiis. I ended up having to set up a Server 2003 machine to act as a router to get my linux computers online (and remain the ONLY user of Linux that lived on campus).

[citation needed]
I can't think of anything I've done online (even my shemale midget fetish on youpron) that could be used to blackmail me, now i get that others are more ashamed about what they do online but "almost everybody"?

So I'm actually getting limited un-broadband. That explains a lot.

Japan requires fingerpints.
Since visiting Japan, I can sleep safely knowing that every western spook archive now has my fingerprint on file.

Pass

If you're happy to admit a mistake you're smarter than most

No, it wasn't. "Climate Change" may have been used politically by Republicans, but it was not coined by them.

The Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

There is one phrase there that might of interest - "unreasonable searches and seizures". And there hangs the ACLU's case. Are these searches "unreasonable"?

In my opinion, they probably are.

But a good lawyer can make a lot of mileage out of one key word, and "unreasonable" will probably be the word more argued over in this lawsuit.