Sadly, Google+ seems to have been overwhelmed by political flamewar postings ever since the last election. There's no way to filter that crap out except by turning off all Hot-and-Recommended posts, and some are interesting.

Which sounds good. The inane and idiotic comments are the worst part of Youtube.

I want to divorce myself from Youtube, a horrible service for horrible people, but Google wants to tie my social service to it.
Now if you seem to be insulted by my saying thing, think how the Google+ users feel insulted by what you say.

I don't really understand. Why would anyone sane want to comment on a Youtube video? The comments are the worst part of the service, dominated overwhelmingly by trolls.

Not if you're blocking cookies and using noscript. I *do* want a google+ account, but I don't want Picassa or Youtube. I'm sick of people treating Google+ as the bad buy here, point fingers at Google instead.

The annoying part is that they forced that idiotic Youtube crap on Google+ users.

I'm not on Facebook. I may never be on Facebook. But I have lots of friends, real life ones, on LinkedIn and Google+.

A sauna is like exercising, in that it's hot, uncomfortable, and you sweat too much. But the advantage is that you get to sit down and do nothing.

These aren't spas. In Finland, people have them in their homes, sometimes at work, I even had one in a hotel room. Even for a commercial sauna the cost is very low.

Now we can go back to worrying about the bankers in charge of banking regulations.

Municipal electric utilities have sprung up for some time, but they're still relatively uncommon despite the benefits. I suspect it will be similar for internet utilities.

And of course, if Comcast charges $75/month and the city charges only $25, some people will still whine about it because it's the evil government charging the $25.

It's hard to say though. There's enough of a libertarian leading in the party now that I don't think the pro-corporate faction could get away with it. They're essentially a minority in the party, with enough clout to stop or delay bureaucrats but not enough to add their own regulations (ie, barring municipal utilities is adding regulation, while allowing them is more hands-off, and the hypocrisy would be obvious even to factions who normally only care about social issues).

It's a slippery slope, soon the railroad barons will have to allow anyone to transport on their tracks!

640 kilobit is enough for anyone!

Just yesterday was watching him in Mission: Impossible.