Possibly even better answer: 90% of the Palm users don't care.

What are you afraid of exactly? Is it the principle of collecting (probably anonymous) data? Why do you buy the game then - you support a company and might be paying for the next round of monitoring? Did you ever question the alternative use of the data that was collected - what kind of porn you like or something like that? Personally, I don't think there is some kind of big market for game data bound to a specific game...

or did you just read "privacy" and "monitoring" and started running around like a retarded chicken?

Yeah, I hate it too when my friends tell me that I need to get facebook/twitter or whatever.

... wait, they don't do that. Maybe you should just get some new friends who are satisfied when you share your latest pictures on your personal web space. Or sitting on the couch while watching the pictures on your television and having a beer.

I liked them because I didn't know better. I'll pick a round controller every day over the bricks we used to have.

While I understand the general idea of your post, it seems to me like you're making a bad precedent for yourself: once your boss knows that he can ask you to work 60 hour weeks (instead of let's say 40 hours), that will be the standard that you're supposed to work and everything over 60 will be looked at like overtime.

The company I work for started bitching about that I got an hour less than I'm supposed to work in June, but they ignored the fact that I worked more than 12 hours overtime the month before that.
And that's when I started doing exactly 8 hours a day. On the other hand, the company I worked before previously didn't mind at all when I left earlier sometimes: they were very satisfied with my work. Before I left I calculated that I had about 32 hours of overtime after a year of work (ok, not a lot, but still). I know that won't happen when my contract ends with the other company :)

Just because it's popular doesn't mean it's bad. It's just easier to make snide remarks about it and score positive karma.

Please note that I don't say it's not justified.

Not to mention that you need to be present at the conference to claim your prize. Otherwise you just get a certificate.

What, not everyone uses a computer the same way? I'm shocked & appalled I tell you!

Not necessarily true. I've come to a point where it doesn't matter that I use a keyboard or a xbox controller. It's all a matter of getting used to the input device I think.

You mean the music the "unwashed masses" want/get because they don't know better?

The problem is that, nowadays, when you actively punch/kick a bully you are in fault. I recall an episode in my high school where I kicked a bully around (not hard ,but still enough for him to feel it). Somebody saw that and reported it. Result: i get reprimanded because I used violence, even after a lengthy explanation on my part. Especially when nobody is there to back up your statement, it is very difficult to prove that you are bullied (especially if all his friends said you "overreacted" to a "one-time friendly tease")

So, my advice: first report the bullying and make sure more than one person hears the complaints. If the bullying continues, you have at least "proof" that you were bullied.