And somewhere behind him is a woman throwing all of his stuff out of a bedroom window because he hasn't turned around from his gaming in 7 hours....

FTA: "So how serious is the Google policy change? By the sound of the running commentary, this is the worst thing for privacy that's happened so far this year."

It's the same privacy policy. Unlike having 60 policies, there is one. It's easy to read.

And since when has anyone had a chance to opt-out of any privacy change, be it at your bank, Facebook, or your job?

Could you opt out of the original 60 policies? No.
Great point is at the end.

FTA: "What's the worst-case scenario here? Google amasses a detailed profile about each one of us who continues to use its mostly free products"

They already have that detailed profile, dumbasses!

FTA: "Potentially, that information later on gets breached, sold or subpoenaed by the federal government."

THEY ALREADY HAVE, @#%@#%! They aren't collecting new data. They already have the data. It could be asked for by the government at any time prior to the privacy policy change. Courts give 2 shits about privacy policies when they request data with a warrant or subpoena.

I better stop now, I'm going to blow a fucking gasket at the idiocy of the author of this piece of garbage. On to the great point:

FTA: "If you don't like Google, use Bing."

Thank you. 'Nuff said.

Repeat after me, young lady, "You guys can go fuck yourselves!"

Wow, you don't wanna be that guy. Think of all the pizza that's going to be sent to his house!

You willfully leave out nerds, geeks, dorks, and spazzes? Obvious /. bias! ;)

Not only that, but with a nuclear bomb, you can see it coming. You can see where it came from. You know who sent it. And you can fire back appropriately. Chinese hackers can attend American colleges, and attack from our own soil, and we have no way of knowing where or who it came from, if they're really good at it, that is.

Parent's post wouldn't have been so bad if it hadn't also been plagiarized. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jmuhZY2mgs

You do know the parts are made here, though, right? I worked at a plant that made Honda and Toyota parts.

Same machines making the same parts that go in everyone's cars, assembled and built by the same US workers...

Doesn't matter if it's an F-150 or a Prius, American workers win. But I'll let you in on a secret... Honda quality is not what you think it is. Toyota has FAR higher quality, regardless of what everyone says about how well their Honda's retain value. I'd bet money you're probably 10 times more likely to hit 300,000 without a major repair in a Toyota than a Honda.

I drive a Pontiac Vibe. It was built in by Toyota in the same plant they made the Toyota Matrix in, here in the US. It's a near exact copy, except for branding.

Japanese cars are made in the US too. I'm not sure which companies don't have a US as a major piece of their manufacturing base. So, win-win.

And why wouldn't they make them elsewhere? NAFTA for one, which covers free trade over 2 entire continents. As I told someone else, maybe BMW will pick up Africa, lol.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/michelinemaynard/2012/01/19/gm-is-back-in-the-auto-sales-drivers-seat/ - Yeah, GM is number 1, however...

Honda, Toyota, and other foreign automakers make many of their cars in the US. I worked for companies that did exactly that, so they win either way. The only real threat to the US auto industry is China and Korea, imo.

I'd be interested in ways Europeans could use as much gasoline per person as a US citizen without buying a US car other than buying a non-US car that isn't already mostly made in the US.

But see, you said world. Is BMW going to put all those cars into China, India, the Middle East, and South America, and Africa? When you said the rest of the world, I took it as really meaning the rest of the world without the Ameri-Euro centric view. And in that regard, the US with NAFTA is poised better than any other country to take advantage of that... not that I think it'll actually happen, just playing the scenario.

You're behind on your news, GM back to number 1. http://www.forbes.com/sites/michelinemaynard/2012/01/19/gm-is-back-in-the-auto-sales-drivers-seat/

So, apparently, the pot I'm smoking is better than the pot you're smoking, haha.

How else are they going to use the gasoline, burn it in open pits?

In all fairness, Microsoft never figured anyone would still be using this service by the time a leap year rolled around.

And the rest of the world would be buying millions and millions more US autos making it our number 1 industrial powerhouse again and pouring money into our coffers at such a booming rate that $10/gal of gas looks super cheap.

So, feel free to revel in the position of a jerk that's proud of not considering how we would benefit if the rest of the world used the same amount of gas. As if what you said brought a tear to our eyes. Like you said, just telling you like it is. And you don't have to like it.

On the other hand, why not complain about the rest of the world eating fish at the excessive rate of the Japanese for all that matters? The environmental impact would be similarly devastating, but does that make the Japanese immoral since it is how their entire society is based? Oh, wait, you were a theology student... so that's where all this moral superiority is coming from.

But... G+ is a ghost town? Just yesterday, people were saying, oh, gee, why would I even be interested in G+? Now /. is pulling stories directly from there.

Mmm Hmmm...