What should also be banned are companies like Prada, Gucci, Apple, Coach, and other companies that make products that poor people can't afford. It's discriminatory!

Install the addon 'Brief'. It has it's own RSS detector built in. It will take a little getting used to, but once you do, you'll like it a lot. It's certainly better than going to Chrome!

I guess Mike Rowe was right all along!

Wish I was moderating right now so I could +1 you.

Car companies want to sell cars. They don't need the government forcing them to build cars to specifications - many of which customers do not desire. If a customer wants a specific type of car, you can bet car companies will do their best to create it. Regulations only constrain their ability to do so while raising prices to the consumer.

I'm confused. The only thing they did was view 40 Million profiles on Facebook? Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo do more than that every single day.

Shouldn't we wait until most people are no longer worried about a global warming catastrophe before we create a new armageddon story?

All of my packages from Amazon, NewEgg and eBay all are shipped by UPS or FedEx. How do you get something shipped by USPS?

Sounds like a good idea to me.

Apparently, CO2 will kill us all. It's the new science, and it's settled. Al Gore told me so.

Just imagine if Trump said that about Colbert as a joke. Then you'll see the problem.

"But in a speech on the Senate floor in June 1992, Mr. Biden, then the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said there should be a different standard for a Supreme Court vacancy “that would occur in the full throes of an election year.” The president should follow the example of “a majority of his predecessors” and delay naming a replacement, Mr. Biden said. If he goes forward before then, the Senate should wait to consider the nomination."

Good point. I was only considering hardware, which is still the largest $ amount by far. I wonder if countries with VAT and GST tax types will change the law for things like music and apps.

You can look at it that way, I guess. But all taxes are passed on to the consumer by necessity. The only Apple can get money to give to the government is from the consumer. No company or corporation pays taxes in that sense. It all comes from a consumer.

The VAT tax rate on that $4.2 billion is 15%. New Zealand made a lot of money off those iphone sales.