Since the heat "locked up" in black holes hasn't disappeared from the universe, just become locked in a black hole, no, the average universe temperature doesn't drop.

No.

http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2012/11/gerrymandering-as-it-declines.html

And guess what: the prime tool for peaceably resolving disagreement among camps of people is called politics.

Morals: A person's standards of behavior or beliefs concerning what is and is not acceptable for them to do.

So you're saying that the freedom of code is a higher moral goal for you than any mere human goals?

Your interpretation is too narrow.

If this were a fantastically gifted campaign manager we were talking about, like Carville or Rove, nobody would blink at the idea "we must prevent the other side from using his talent."

This is software used to manage talent. It is politics as usual to prevent your opponents from matching your advantages. It is not illegal or even immoral to try to win by being better than your opponent.

You have just called for VOTER SUPPRESSION in so many words. Will you now backpedal, saying that's not what you meant, or stand by your words, proving yourself a dangerous idiot?

In other words: Good luck getting only the people who agree with you to vote.

I'm no expert on what linguistic parse trees should look like. But hopefully this will help your parser somewhat:

{The {political {folks}}
want
    {to keep
            {the {{get out the vote} code}}
            {closed source}
    }

Or, rewriting the original:

The political folks want to prevent the voter turnout enhancement code from becoming open source.

Want to know what kind of movies your friends like? ASK THEM.

Want to get set up with a single friend of a friend? ASK YOUR FRIEND.

Want to make Zuckerburg disgustingly rich? USE FACEBOOK.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_anesthesia

No. It can and usually is done under twilight sedation.

There is enough smoke here that I, who am neither a fireman nor an owner of flammable property, feel safe guessing there's probably a fire. I'll leave the law and order to those paid for it.

OK, maybe he's a security guard and not a cop. But he's wearing a uniform and it's never explicitly said what his job is.

Watch it again yourself. One of the rapists was the shop owner (Maynard); the other was a cop (Zed).

I'm going to open up an aluminum foil stand just inside the park entrance.