What part of “a court ruling affirmed the right of end users to run any software or consume any content they choose on the device they own” do you not understand? The Right of First Sale is a very important one in business law and Apple should NOT be allowed to break it, period. Any weakening of that right is a threat…

Nobody says Apple has to host the bloody thing, the issue is they actively prevent users from acquiring applications in any other way than the official store despite a court ruling that jailbreaking is entirely legal and the end user has every right to install and run any software they choose on the device they own.…

The issue so much isn’t what they will allow in their App Store, it’s that they prevent you from accessing the software in any other way either. You cannot “side-load” apps without jailbreaking the device, which Apple makes as difficult as possible despite a court ruling stating that jailbreaking was completely legal…

That is in no way whatsoever even remotely similar. In the case of automakers, they are saying if you make modifications they haven’t tested to be safe and reliable then they won’t repair your car at their expense in the event something goes wrong. They are not telling you not to do it, only that they won’t accept…

Wrong. It is the end user’s device to put any content on it THEY choose, they bought the device and own the device and thus the choice should belong to them. You don’t rent the damned thing you OWN it, and it’s long overdue that these companies act like it.

It’s genetalia, yes. Specifically female genetalia, which over half the human race has and the vast majority will need some sort of education and experience in how to operate it properly. The only reason this is even an issue with any controversy behind it is due to the fact that thousands of years ago some…

So how are people supposed to learn about such a basic and important part of life? As it is, people turn to porn and / or the rumor mill from their equally ignorant peers and have to figure it out best they can. Why? Because America is still in the grips of religiously originated puritanism and prudery, and restrict…

They aren’t Apple’s products anymore the moment they are bought by a private user. Apple no longer owns your iDevice once they sell it to you, YOU own that device. And yet, the company who made it insists they have the right to restrict what you can do with the device you bought and paid for. You really don’t see the…

Those WERE the problems. Sure, the age difference was a potential issue but relationships between consenting adults (and Xavier’s was a university in those days, they didn’t start taking in younger teens until the New Mutants many years later so yes Jean was a legal adult) do happen sometimes. The fact that he was her…

In the early issues, back in the Lee/Kirby days before any of the characters or themes developed into a form we would recognize today and the team was basically “hey look it’s the Fantastic Four as college freshmen, you guys!” Professor Xavier did have an attraction to Jean. Then again, EVERYBODY had an attraction to…

The old joke was always “What do they have in common? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!”. Seriously, power they may have but there’s just no there there. Silver Surfer doesn’t belong on Earth in the first place and the moment the Galactus Barrier dropped he was off to the stars where he belonged. Doctor Strange is rarely in this…

Pixels was actually really good, somehow, despite Adam Sandler. Most of the people hating on it didn’t even see it —and who can blame them? They heard “New Adam Sandler movie sucks”and heard “sky is blue, water is wet” and repeated it without question. I only went for the 80s arcade references (I am SO the target…

You forget that copyright was never meant to be absolute nor perpetual. Like the patent system, it was meant to balance the needs of creators and the culture / public at large, so that the creators would be incentivized to create by a limited period of exclusive rights to profit off their work and then the legal…

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Actually it was a demotion to Captain, she was a Major before. And it’s a shame they tossed out the feminist credentials behind the “Ms.” title to give her the name of a male hero whom she’d long since transcended. :(

Actually, it’s Khanberbatch. Everything else you wrote is spot on, though. :)

I encountered a Pakled ship once, they asked me for something to “make them go”. So, to help them out I replicated 200 kilos of chocolate laxative and beamed it over. Problem solved.

Just hopefully not all at once.

Don’t be an octopussy about it, man.

Actually, the Resistance is Starfleet. Let’s call it what it is. :P