"Traditionalist America has always held homosexuality to be unnatural and immoral, ruinous to body and soul alike, and where prevalent – as in Weimar, Germany – the mark of a sick society. This belief outrages millions. Yet it is as old as mankind and was held universally in the Christian West until this century. Moreover, it is grounded in biblical truth, tradition, natural law and Catholic doctrine." -- Pat Buchanan, March 28, 2013

From the Google Talk Developers page: "Hangouts will replace Google Talk and does not support XMPP."

Adria Richards is not a feminist, fyi: http://butyoureagirl.com/14015/forking-and-dongle-jokes-dont-belong-at-tech-conferences/

that study doesn't compare children of two-parent opposite-sex couples to children of two-parent same-sex couples, so it doesn't support your position because it's simply not measuring the relevant information.

Your opinion on adoption by same-sex couples isn't supported by social science.

Should infertile heterosexual couples be permitted to marry and adopt children? Their relationships are also "destined to be sterile."

It's true that the verb is "apexesqai" 'to abstain from", but the context makes it quite clear that it's referring to the consumption of blood. If one interprets a food prohibition this way, one should also avoid organ transplantation since it would constitute cannibalism. Apparently organ transplants _were_ officially prohibited by the Jehovah's Witnesses until 1980, which is at least consistent, I guess.

"Nobody actually uses it"? Listing /afs, I see AFS cells at MIT, Stanford, Harvard, CMU, Cornell... and I know my local universities use it internally, although their AFS space isn't publicly accessible. It might not be popular in corporate environments, but it appears to be very much in use at American universities.

Re: iOS and other proprietary platforms, you could use a WebDAV client. The mod_waklog Apache module allows HTTPS users to authenticate via Kerberos, which means that WebDAV access works with OpenAFS.

There are *no* requirements for compliance for ISPs that don't impose data caps. What specific provisions in the bill do you think will lead to "loopholes" and "red tape"?

Not true; the NOAA says global average temperature is rising: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/indicators/

The authors have not been able to repeat their results: http://www.gwern.net/Notes#the-camel-has-two-humps

RAND = reasonable and non-discriminatory

They don't "own your code" in any sense. If you violate the license, you're committing copyright infringement, but it has no effect on the copyright status of your own work.