I know this might sound absurd, but if we care about the environment and want to make a statement to the world, how about we offer some sort of assistance (not necessarily financial) to Beijing to put them on the right track? All of our complaining and pointing fingers and we don't even care about the lives at stake. They have a problem, we should help them make it better however we can. It's lives as stake here!

Well, they are about as useless off-campus as my thrown away bank documents that anyone with a decent brain could turn into money. People have been concerned about this same issue for years with passports--it just takes one terrorist to find out there's an 'american' in the room by scanning... and, well, you know the end of the story.

Without a doubt Spanish and Portuguese (Brazilian) will get you a lot of options. Learning Spanish will make Portuguese a breeze and I have found a wealth of documentation in Portuguese for the development that I do. Spanish is also very useful so it will be a good investment--you can go anywhere and hear it and have the opportunity to speak it. Even if you do not get very far it will still improve your quality of life in the states and your vacations in the Americas. It's so very practical. I'm learning Korean after learning Spanish and am still so very glad to have learned Spanish. Korean will consume the rest of my life and is only useful for a small percentage of the world's population... however, my wife speaks it. Anyone that says you can learn Spanish overnight if you have to has obviously never learned to speak well, nor learned the intricacies of the Subjunctive or Preterite. I worked at a law firm as an interpreter and an interviewee came in and said that he would 'brush up' on his Spanish to help him get the job and I laughed to myself... How are you going to 'brush up' on what takes years to learn to speak competently in a Spanish speaking country? I will brush up on being a surgeon but might remove the wrong body part. People! Have fun with it... and don't make it all about grammar.

I wonder if they would protest the deaths of their own people? For example, as a result of their repeated insults to innocent people one of them suffered from a 'heart attack'... do you suppose they would say it was God's wrath?

You can't use your money for that, sorry. I don't care what she does with those phones, she should buy as many as she has money for and that should be the end of it. If she gets caught selling them then she has broken a law, until then nothing.

Looks like I will be browsing in Private Mode forever and ever, amen amen. Sure it doesn't feel as good, but it's the only way to not get the AIDS.

Ran out of mod points, but a metaphorical +1 for using North Korea as a reference. Agreed.

People might also fear that young, impressionable boys, will learn of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and we might get some humans with backbone again. That would cause governments real trouble too. It seems they are afraid of anything that might take away their power, much like the North Korean regime. If it's not from them, created by them, for their purposes, it's evil.

I think if we just pretend those money sucking parasites never existed and stopped writing about them there would be nothing to link on google also. I'm beginning to question my own desire to watch films produced in the USA. Maybe it's time to put them out of business.

Yet another good idea from the people we voted into office. 1) Why do these people have jobs? 2) Why are they still living in America? The very least we could do is vote them out of a job and set them adrift.

We're on the decline, but don't bother to change it? You might as well have just said APOCALYPSE and run away screaming.

That's 1 point for the RIAA and 0 for human rights. Seriously, I am going to be afraid to even think about listening to music as it might be thoughtcrime. It's just music. We can't even get a murderer locked up for 15 years unless he causes the jury to throw up. America is not the free place it used to be.

Great idea, and as soon as some 12 year old technologist finds out how to disable it we have a bloodbath.

I wonder if this award could possibly make him happier?

Maybe Chewbacca is accusing the major record company of stealing his beat?