Here's the saddest part of that article: "Opponents of profiling say such methods could lead to religious or ethnic discrimination."

We, as Americans who love our rights and freedoms, will just not tolerate profiling or discrimination based on race, ethnicity, religion, etc. And rightly so. But giving up other rights is just fine and dandy.

Absolutely depressing.

but sometimes "just build more towers" is much, much easier said than done.

Kinda makes you wonder why, from the big 4, only T-Mobile (at least in the US) has embraced WiFi Calling via UMA. After all, the costs to the telcos is MUCH cheaper than new towers.

Oh....wait. I think I understand: There's no profit in it.

Indeed. It boggles the mind as to why they finally fixed that feature, but still have not enabled simple file operations (copy / paste / rename / etc.) in the File Open and File Save dialogs. I can't tell you how pissed I get when I have to stop what I'm doing, open a Finder window and then navigate all over again to a location just to rename a folder, for example.

It's only unclear to people who are incapable of reading 4,500 or so words OR people living in Washington, DC. Everyone else knows they're unconstitutional.

I really wish everyone would stop making about whether we're nude or not.

The Fourth Amendment has NOTHING to do with the government preserving people's modesty. And EVERYTHING to do with protecting people from being stopped, harassed and searched without probably cause.

Why is it so easy for the public to be sidetracked? I swear, some days I think the government / media is better than David Copperfield with the slight-of-hand.

Forget the fact that they're pushing customers away, etc.

Who is granting patents for OMISSIONS of inventions. It's like me patenting a PB&J without the peanut butter. I'm a genius!

Seriously? I'm not here to defend Bush or Obama or....well...the U.S. government in general. But calling the events of September 11th "our sand castles getting kicked over" is just infuriating. Three thousand innocent people were murdered. You can debate whether it was all the fault of U.S. foreign policy or religion or whatever. But please don't equate the death of 3,000 innocents to a bully kicking over a sand castle.

Why is it that what humans do seems never to be classified as "natural", though? Either we're part of nature or we're not.

I've always found it rather arrogant of us to think that Nature won't figure out a way for us (or our descendants or some other species' descendants) to survive long after we're worm food.

Bah. This sounds like the nonsense twenty years ago about how evil Christopher Columbus was.

The native American Indians in general were not "nicer". It's just their technology wasn't quite what Columbus had. So, in short, if the Indians had possessed guns and boats, they'd have "discovered" Europe.

If the people of Virginia don't get a specific answer, then I think it's fair for them to deny the proposal on a variety of grounds.

What do you mean by "the people of Virginia"? Don't forget: corporations are now people, too. And how, exactly, do they oppose this? After all, if they're against it, they must be hiding something, right?

It really is amazing how right the "tin foil hat people" have been all along. Equally amazing is how quickly the madness (i.e. the all-out assault on, and destruction of, the Constitution) is accelerating......

That's what we in Marketing have been trying to tell you geeks for years. Now help me fix my powerpoint.

Looks like someone learned a little something from the oil industry: Natural Disaster; Raise Prices, blaming the disaster. When the disaster's effects are neutralized, do nothing. Profit!