The game is obvious: "We all did it. You can't punish us all Together, we're too big to fail."

Naked capitalism.

Make liability for data breaches something that cannot be waived by contract. Things would wake up very quick.

With any reasonable data mining, these middlemen will be able to figure out which players are ready to play and which are not. Their customers are not anonymous and their relationship to NFL teams ought to be mappable.

This ought to provide the principals of these gambling businesses quite an edge in betting on real games.

I read that radiation poisoning (the all natural kind) would be a big issue also.

Wealth comes from a lot of things.

It is not snake oil at all, as far as the customer goes. But Groupon's customer isn't the customer of the business. Groupon's customer is the business itself. Their salespeople must persuade the customer-business to (a) give Groupon money; and (b) give their customers discount coupons (at cost to themselves). That can be a very hard sell. That is why Groupon's salespeople are so extremely essential to its survival.

Groupon needed WAY more than 10 people to work. You can't forget the salespeople. Groupon was all about getting businesses to sign on the bottom line . Without salespeople to sell the snake oil, it cannot succeed.

Don't go until our AI tech is advanced enough to build a self-sustaining infrastructure. Otherwise, it's a big waste of time and money--and a big risk to human life.

Freedom of speech is all about listening to other peoples' lies and bullshit.

We don't pay enough money, so the best people don't go into teaching. It's the American way of letting the rest of the world catch up to us.

Solar power embedded programming. Start with programming toys. Then on to useful stuff.

The FBI engaged in a massive amount of illegal wiretapping. It was MASSIVE. It was also quite illegal--and completely unpunished. This was organized violation of civil rights--a plain crime.

The FBI engaged in massive surveillance of student demonstrators, including infiltrating student protest movements. This wasn't for suspicion of crime--this was for intelligence. That was plain wrong.

The FBI burgled--there is no other word for it--the office of Daniel Ellsberg and others. That is wrong.

Then there was FBI Director L. Patrick Gray and the Nixon coverup.

AND THEY ASK US WHY WE DON'T TRUST THEM NOT TO VIOLATE OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO PRIVACY?

Oh, come on now...

The difference is that when their shit breaks, they can fix it.

Unkillable incubators for the very worst kinds of influenza!

What could go wrong?

Uber wants all the benefits of being an employer with none of the responsibilities.

If you listen to Uber, every worker is an independent contractor and all the employee protection laws we fought so hard for over the last century don't apply any more.