While the US of course did nothing but continue to sell all it could to the Nazis. WW2 started in 1939. The US entered the war in 1941. Enough said.

He says that he is a conservative, not a Republican. There is a big difference.

There is nothing new about assembling dossiers on everyone. The thing now is that it has become easier to assemble, sift and share data. There are files on you somewhere.

We decided that privacy as here defined was not really so important and that there were positive benefits to giving out personal information. The issue really is not that the information can be collected, aggregated and analysed, the issue is what is done with it. That is where the state comes in to play.

The only privacy you are entitled to is what takes place within four walls.

Now everyone on /. knows forever how well you do English grammar and spelling.

The Canadian Government finds it quite appropriate to collect sales tax on items purchased outside Canada and brought into Canada. This is collected at the border or by the mailman upon delivery of a package. This has nothing to do with customs duties but simply the sales tax collection.

Only in Canada eh?

Well put. There should be reasonable limits put on expressions of conspiracy and paranoia particularly when the incident takes place in another country and political-legal culture entirly unlike that in the US.

No it doesn't "look bad". Remember this is the UK not the US where paranoia and distrust of every form of authority runs rampant. Often with good reason with respect to the partisan US judicial system. The judge is no longer involved with the Apple-Samsung case; there is no evidence that his decision in that case was questionable on legal grounds; and he states that the Samsung job emerged well after the trial. Jocob is entitled by position and record to be taken at his word. I know, a strange concept in the corrupt US.

In the UK the judiciary is generally highly respected for integrity and independence. Conservative, yes, but that is the way it should be for a healthy society. Change should not be easy or simply popular. The US on the other hand has institutionalized a partisan and corrupt juidiciary through the election of judges and through blatant political appointments. You would be an idiot to credit US justices on the whole with integrity and independence. All to say that I see no reasonable appearance of conflict of interest or improper judicial behaviour arising from the Apple-Samsung case, and have no concern over Jacob's acceptance to work on the Samsung brief to the WTO. Apple lost its case over a point of law not from some arbitrary and corrupt judge's opinion.

You have to get together and organize. As individua;s we are nothing. That is why we have unions.

So when does the boycott start?

A diploma is just a crutch for lazy HR people. They figure anyone can get a diploma who has neither a mental or character deficiency, so why look any further into the true ability or potential of an applicant. It takes time and effort to assess a candidate properly so just go with the paper qualification. Most jobs today of a non-specialized nature do not require a college education: Just literacy, an enquiring mind, and good work habits. And in that I certainly include teaching, nursing and a host of other "professions". College is overhyped but the game has to be played as there is no percentage in being the only sane person in an insane world. Whatever did you learn in college that has been important in your work? Be honest. On the job experience is everything if you are just reasonably intelligent.

What do you mean " is the bar being lowered?" It was lowered a long time ago. The prevailing idea that everyone, anyone, should go to university (college) is nonsense. To keep the numbers up, colleges MUST lower their standards or most students would fail and mummy wouldn't like that. A degree is for the intellectually gifted. Perhaps no more than 25% of graduating high school students should go on to tertiary education. Most college education today is inefficient, ineffective vocational training at best and largely a waste of time. All that can be said for most college degrees is that it helps lazy HR people screen applicants (using irrelevant criteria). Today, if you can't get a college degree it means that you are either dead stupid or have a character defect. It says nothing about your intelligence and potential..

Yeh, I share your frustration. If it's not the Bible, it's the Constitution.

All it takes is a phone call from the Ministry of Interior to the ISP and the plug is pulled. Intimidation is so '30's.