One thing I'd not is that Google themselves don't use GWT for much of anything these days. They're doing a lot of jQuery though...

A lot of things MS don't agree with me, but making sure you "eat your own dogfood" is something I can get behind.

I think the point on slavery is a good one, but one could counter with marijuana laws. More than 50% of the population would repeal them today. Do you think the people would vote to invade Iran or stay forever in some country we've liberated? Maybe not the same scale but real wars and the war on drugs certainly restrict freedoms. the war on drugs more so since people end up in jail which is analogous to slavery. And as far as voting for lower taxes and more benefits, that sounds like what we get today with our reps. I'm not saying direct vote on things would be ideal, but seems like we have these issues today. I can understand the want to try something different

You're endorsing misallocation on an unprecedented scale

I'd still argue that the pyramids have that beat

Mod parent up! This is not trollish - it's true

That sounds awful, but that is because the top 10% own all the money. Really, a proportional tax would have them pay even more of the tax burden because they control that much of all the money in the US. Let me introduce you to the L-curve: http://www.lcurve.org/

You can still allow the imports but tax them for the externalities they are excluding. We can still get stuff, albeit a little more expensive, but we encourage better standards. And in the short term we get a little extra cash instead of selling ourselves upstream.

If you want to make an impression on the server, leaving $0.00 is not a good method. Any number of reasons could why you left no tip, most likely is that you are cheap (in the server eyes).

You want to make a point? Leave a tip of $0.01. There's no misconstruing that message.

Wouldn't such a high tax rate be an incentive to hire more people vs. a disincentive? If you are going to lose the money anyways, you might as well get something more tangible for it.

I guess that means you want to repeal murder laws since people will kill people regardless?

but you can bet that after a short period of time that it's just there to shear the flock.

Most flocks exist to be fleeced

Frankly, many foreigners will not know where states are because - as you say - they "don't make the news a lot" :) They aren't individually important in the world, unlike the US as a whole.

But in fairness, there's a number of Americans feel this same way about individual countries versus the EU as a whole. That position sounds reasonable given that is a bi-directional relationship of relative ignorance.

(Not saying one shouldn't have a better understanding of US or EU, but I can see the argument).

Again, right there on the page it says this that it shows how Apple's latest products support HTML 5. It doesn't say that apple.com supports the latest version of Firefox or IE.

I may be daft right now, but isn't the point of standards to avoid having pages determine what browsers they support? In fact, shouldn't it be the opposite - browsers identifying what's on the page and rendering what they understand? Apple.com doesn't have to support anything, but just stop blocking to be intellectually honest.

Overall, this isn't a big deal (Ad on a com site) but filtering on UA string and requesting a unique download for a standards demo is hamfisted. The download may as well be Flash at that point.

that is sort of DRM since it is restricting his options with his own device

those 'developer' links still filter on browser. Why is there so much justification for this?

Bullshit. Anyone who would ever accept the name "liberal" in the U.S. is already buying into the idea that there is only one possible spectrum of ideas, which goes from "conservative" to "liberal."

Some of us just live in the real world and can indicate which is the closest approximation (YMMV) to their high level beliefs. If you don't feel they represent you, that is fine, but there is no reason to disparage people who feel like they can.

Ex: If someone is asked for their political ideology and they say they are a conservative, would you chastise them for not articulating each and every belief? Sounds like a lot of fun for everyone. (eye roll)

I agree that people should think more critically, but name calling isn't going to win over people who just don't care as much about politics.

FYI - if you don't think the links below are propaganda, then I question your ability to think openly.
http://www.politicalcompass.org/analysis2
http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz_result?e=30&i=70_30.gif&p=70 (A 'perfect score' = libertarian)