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If you de facto deny that supernatural events can’t happen, I’d say you have some pretty strong religious beliefs. If you want to deny that, I’d say that just means you’re not part…

“No more shall an infant from there live but a few days, nor an old man who has not fulfilled his days; for the child shall die one hundred years old, but the sinner being one hund…

So it sounds like you don’t agree with contract law. that if you make an agreement with someone or something that you are bound to keep your word. You somehow think that because yo…

It would be better for both to enforce contract law all around. Don’t let either lie or steal and you’ll have a better outcome for all.

It’s a set of beliefs about how you should view and act in the world, that’s good enough.

I remember about 10 years ago the promise was that JRuby was going to let ruby be basically as fast as Java for many things. Invokedynamic and all that.

“No more shall an infant from there live but a few days, nor an old man who has not fulfilled his days; for the child shall die one hundred years old, but the sinner being one hund…

On the contrary, we could finally raise the voting age to 60.

Secularism is its own religion and gets quoted often around here. Guess you’ll just have to learn to be tolerant.

> preventing us from doing things with phones that we purchased. Nobody is preventing you. Who is preventing you? There’s no government action here. You buy the phone or you buy a …

Could or should? If you want to download a bunch of mp3s without paying the author, knowing that the author has not intended for you to do so, do you think that is right?

Yes I think we do agree on many things. I think in general we both value property rights and that’s a good place to be. We may disagree on which is the cart and which is the horse.…

Right but that’s tangential to the main point which is that if people come together to create something and you don’t like it, don’t buy it. Don’t attempt to strongarm them into ma…

> Your analysis didn't touch on the fundamental need of any democratic society to sustain strong economic growth The need of the society is to defend property rights and sustain th…

> created by the government The entity sure, but beyond the entity you have a group of people who have created something and want to sell it to you. If the Democratic will of the p…

This is such a cowardly view. > If anything, breaking up these monopolies will lead to more innovation Yes, let’s violate a company’s right to exist and conduct business just becau…

Less government regulation doesn’t mean violating contract law.

People seem to like them. And what a wonderful service they have done for society. But I guess Walmart is always available, or boutique stores if you don’t like big box.

“Had to” They did not have to. They could have let market forces dictate how it played out.

Right. Then you boot it up and have to agree to a bunch of stuff to use iOS. You can bail at that point and not use the device. Or you can know that you’ll have to agree to it late…

I certainly support contract law. What I don’t want is coercion. They make a device, offer it to you with a contract, and you can say yes or no. You make a recommendation for how t…

As long as it doesn’t break the contract you signed when buying the device, go for it.

If they would band together, why not just make a new phone? Going after jail breaking apple devices would be fruitless since apple could release a new firmware to block your OS. I …

Didn’t realize, I wish they wouldn’t. even more reason to not buy Apple (I’m typing this on an iPhone :) ) I agree with you that I wish they would allow it. I agree that I should b…