Because that would drive up food prices which would impact the poorest people the most.

Southern California has a long history of stealing water from other places...
Time to just jack up the water rates so people move out.

"Okay, but if one is of the opinion (as I am) that murder is always wrong, then saying "well we held this trail so now this is legal" does not change the moral argument one bit."
So if a someone has taken hostages and has killed a few of them an officer shooting the gunman is immoral?

I am actually anti death penalty but it is just as black and white as you make it.
It can be argued that some people are to dangerous to risk ever letting out of the prison system or ever risk them escaping.

Gee I guess this is so girls don't have to face the pressure of competing with boys. We all know that girls need special help.

I just do not know that this is really needed. I know lots of very smart women in STEM that are very bit as talented as any male. The issues of fair pay and frankly pop culture need to be fixed.

Potentially as replacements for text books.

"e Shopping, by promoting sites on its own Google Shopping platform over other sites, and doing so without indicating to the consumer that Google has an interest in those sites."

I googled iPhone.
On the right hand side, outside of search results, I see "Shop for iPhone on Google" and it has a sponsored marker on it! Did I mention that it was in a box on the right hand side as well?
Really? Just how is that not indicating to the consumer?

You did say this.
"No, but Google needs to be forced to not abuse its position of dominance."

If google is not abusing it does not need to be forced to do anything.
I am a big fan of antitrust but frankly It does not seem to be used with real monopolies very often.

I am questioning if Google is abusing or is in a position of dominance. A large market share is not a monopoly position.
The questions on the use of Android are really silly since IOS, WP, and others are more locked down.

Wait I have a solution to this problem.
1. Run a test.. You could call it a pilot program in one school.
2. The company that wants the contract pays for the pilot or at least half of it.
When it fails you do not have a missive program fail and it costs a lot less.
This is brilliant. I wonder why no one thought of this before.

BTW the issues seems to be the shop google links to the right of the search results...
In other words a tempest in a teapot.

"I don't know, you'll have to ask the EU commission about that. TFA says that they have found "potential bias in Google’s search results, ...,"
If you do not know what they are doing wrong then how can you say they are doing wrong?
You just trust that the government is doing the right thing?

Exactly how are they abusing their dominant position?
They do control default search on Android but you can put any search engine and or browser on Android unlike ios.
Also Apple and Microsoft do not use Google as the default search engine so the mobile market is not dominated by Android.
On the Desktop the default search engine on the default browser on the most popular OS is Bing.

It is so easy to change search engines that the end user lock in is just not a problem.
Google does not offer pay for search placement. If you google search engine Bing the top result.

"I doubt Lenovo even has a license to buy Xeon chips. "
What is wrong with you! Are you smoking the the crack?

Really?
http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/s...
Says you are wrong.

He is not in court or in front of a jury.
And really taking the 5th when asked that question will do enough damage during the trial that the DA will not need to say a word.

Umm.. No they didn't/
You can not pay to be placed in search results on Google. You can pay to have your ads show up in the ad space to the right and at the top marked as an ad.
Try it and Google iPhone.
First you will see an ad and then the results. The ad will have an icon marking it as an add and then you will see results below that.
Or try Art by Lori Ramatar and you will see no ads.
I know the artists and she does not pay for any ads on Google.
So no. You are wrong.

" When a single search engine has 90% of all traffic, whether your business shows up in its search results or not, and if it does, then how high relative to its competitors, can easily become the single biggest determinant of your success. If such placement is not fair (whatever that means), there is an issue."

So Europeans need to be forced to use Bing and Yahoo.
What it comes down to is Google provided too good of a service.
Simple truth is that I almost never use Google to find a product to buy. It does not have the best product search by far.