So Visa/Mastercard can turn you away if they don't like your politics. Apple can turn you away if they don't like your ideology. What's next? And does this bother anyone besides me? Could it not be argued that things like card payment services and the iPhone platform are public accommodations that should be open to all on a non-discriminatory basis? If not, we risk granting de facto censorship ability to private organizations, relinquishing a substantial part of the freedom gained over the past few hundred years. This concerns me.

And yes, I would feel the same way regardless of the beliefs and ideologies being rejected. Freedom is freedom, regardless of one's beliefs.
 

Makes about as much sense as conducting panty raids on shoplifters.

The US average annual interruption per customer is 1.36 hours. I think that is from 2008. That's 99.98% uptime. That number would obviously be a bit lower for, say, 2003, but it's a good general indicator of overall grid reliability.

Seriously, the lower price points will allow many more people to purchase many more titles. It could be a definite shift in the market, but the impact will be similar to the impact of $0.99 song downloads, which obviously killed the music industry.

An intelligently designed biological system capable of evolution.

Gee, that's never been done before.