So all children 12 and under and all immunocompromised people should be inconvenienced to stay home instead of you being inconvenienced to wear a mask. Got it.

I agree that Apple should be forced to allow competing app stores on their devices. I also agree that Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo etc. should be forced to allow competing app and game stores on their devices. I also agree that Google and Amazon etc. should be forced to allow competing app stores on their chrome cast and fire stick devices. I also agree that Samsung LG etc. should be forced to allow competing app and movie stores on their smart TVs. Basically if any company creates a device that allows them to continue to profit off of additional downloads of any form after device sale needs to be forced to allow competing sales channels. Not forced to develop those competing sales channels, but to allow them.

Battlestar Galactica uses a mix of Naval and Army ranks

Emphasis mine. Can anyone provide a source for this statement? Thus far, I can only find statements where Microsoft does not mind if users are granted an ability to add their own certs - I have not seen this as a requirement to be Windows 8 certified.

Emphasis mine. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_8#Secure_boot

Netflix is not a private business - it is a publicly traded corporation. Also, they offer their services to the public. Netflix (as well as any business and individual) benefits from the infrastructure within our country, especially the Post Office and the internet, funded by tax payers. All businesses that are owned by a corporation here in the US are only real entities thanks to government fiat, ergo all corporations are beholden to our government, and all businesses succeed thanks in part to our infrastructure. One of the agreements placed on businesses to continue to exist in our country is that they follow our laws, and sometimes we ask them to do things that might not be profitable in order to help with the common good - like the Disabilities act, or child labor laws, or environmental protection laws that keep everybody from shitting up the rivers.

This is an end run to keep future "broadcast television" from ignoring the needs of the deaf. If this is not settled now, it becomes more difficult to settle this in the future, and IMO it would be horrible if all future streaming services failed to deliver content with CC. If you feel that an allergy to certain foods is the same as being deprived of one of your senses (and such should be equally "protected" under the law), then you can never be reasoned with.

I've been using .mac since its release, and I haven't had any issues whatsoever regarding lost email. I have had syncing issues in which my address book gets doubled up on one of my systems, but a deletion and resync has always fixed it. So yeah - I call your anecdote with my anecdote.

Um - since when was Apple convicted of abusing the monopoly position of Mac OS? Since when was Apple convicted of abusing the monopoly position of the iPhone? So yeah - Apple is a bit different - they aren't a company who was convicted of abusing monopoly powers in the EU for starters.