Yes, his state's laws mean jack and shit in comparison to agreement made by the US with the OCSE. It's this thing called the "Supremacy Clause". Abbott is waving his dick around to grandstand and nothing more.

International agreements and treaties trump state law. It's this little thing called the Supremacy Clause:

Maybe re-read your Constitution?

So if Abbott really cared about voter intimidation why didn't he come out and warn the Tea Party when they announced they would be sending observers to polling places? Yep, that's because this is just political grandstanding.

Yep, history of the US basically confirms it. The 19th and early 20th century was riddled with political machines who dominated municipal, city and state governments. Anyone who claims that local governments are more responsive to local needs has their heads up their asses. They are just as bought and paid for by corporate and other special interests even to this day.

At the same time with them gone the federal tax rate could probably be lowered since they are the biggest welfare queens when it comes to Federal funds from tax money.

Sure they did:

No. Google is actually pretty silent about this unlike Mozilla trumpeting every version number inflation.

Why? They can just ask for the far more precise location data straight from the telecoms who are more than willing to give it up.

Of course it's a feature since only an idiot wouldn't know that your phone is an active radio transmitter. Also, if you couldn't be tracked how exactly would you expect the cell network to know which towers to hand you off to while you were moving?

Which some people are perfectly fine with. Isn't it better that these companies use mature, well-debugged BSD code rather than rolling their own shit that is usually many times worse because they were going to avoid the GPL anyway?

Or the 100s of millions of electronics that get shipped each year by boat from China and Taiwan? Yeah, there isn't anything all that tough about this.

Not to mention that these same media companies have their hands deep in advertising as well.

Because the movie and music industries are controlled by huge multinational megacorps. Sure the individual music or movie divisions themselves might be smaller relatively but the parent corps of Disney, Vivendi, Viacom, Sony, News Corp, Time Warner and Comcast have enormous of amount of money and power at their disposal. Anyone of which completely eclipses the revenue and employee count of even the largest video game companies like Activision/Blizzard, EA, etc. The video game companies are peanuts compared to any of those huge media conglomerates.

Brilliant libertard parody.

In comparison to the imaginary jailbreaks for the Paperwhite?