The company is known as Malaysia Airlines, or MAS for short.

I've experienced the same on United. Sometimes it doesn't go down for days... if ever.

I have been reading the IMDB forums for about 15 years, and will greatly mourn their passing. I'd often head there after watching an older film, as users would have nearly always posted some interesting facts or retrospectives. The long-running thread about Blade Runner's impact on movies and culture at large was particularly fun.

Google will never do as you hope. It's already "pursuing development paths that are leaving power users in the cold," and its wake is littered with projects that have withered on the vine or been left to rot on the ground.

Google Inc. is not a "global company." It is a Delaware corporation with headquarters in Mountain View, CA.

Yes, but its policy of retroactively blocking archived webpages due to the feelings of the domain's current owner is outrageous. Fat lot of good multiple copies will do when the Archive's own policies hamstring it.

Believe it. For a while now I've been flying every year from the West Coast to Western Europe and the prices for major airlines (a.k.a. those with the ability to connect to my destination) are almost all fixed at just under $1000 each way. It doesn't matter which carrier you choose - Air France, KLM, British Airways, Lufthansa... It's a racket, especially for those originating from the United States. The first three airlines above have already been fined for operating a cargo cartel, and it seems to me that the major players are colluding in the passenger market as well.

Flickr/Yahoo backtracked a bit after rolling out the new UI and removed the most egregious aspects, but the site is still a far cry from what it once was. The tone-deafness and technical incompetence from management has been breathtaking, as every new change they make (I assume in an attempt to woo new users) only hemorrhages more of their core userbase. As a longtime Pro member, it's an awful shame.

Money and power.

I see very little wrong with that. The sooner this bubble bursts, the better.

You're in luck: BART has been running a people-mover to OAK since November 2014.

Nancy Pelosi is a member of the House of Representatives, not the Senate. Perhaps you're thinking of Dianne Feinstein and her husband Richard Blum? It's my understanding that Mrs. Pelosi's husband was in no real need of connections himself.

Unfortunately, the NY Times is reporting that "ordinary tourism" will remain prohibited.

Indoctrination sounds about right.