Well, I own a Lenovo Android tablet, a Huawei phone and now an OnePlus One.

Both Lenovo and Huawei stopped updating their devices after a year or so. Both have issues (rare random reboots, battery drain when WiFi is turned off). And custom ROMs are basically non-existant due to the hardware used being practically unsupported (HiSense CPU on the Huawei phone, Nvidia Tegra chipset on the Lenovvo tablet).

My OPO has none of the issues reported by some, it uses the basically the same hardware as other high-end Android phones, it comes with CM installed -- chances a way better that will be able to update it 2 years down the road.

Working with made-up numbers is fun, right?
A FLAC file is about 2-3 times as big as a high quality MP3 file.
So unless you encoded your complete collection with 80 kbps, we're talking about 1/3 and not 1/10.

Right... Back in the day I had a MP3 player with a few dozen MB of memory. So to fit as much music on it as possble I converted it to MP3s with less than 128 kbps.
A few years later, I had MP3 players with several hundred MB. And them with some GB.

What was a sensible choice 15 years ago isn't anymore today. And you can not got up from lossy encoded music files.

FLAC files are about 2-3 times bigger than a high-quality (320 kbps) MP3 file.
So your collection would be less than 400 GB.
Considering that todays hard drive sizes are counted in TB and that it doesn't make any economy sense to buy a small one (doubling the size from 1 TB to 2 TB costs only 20% or 30% more) the file size doesn't really matter.

No benefit? Having a backup in original quality is benefit enough, I would think.

Well, those site pretty much cover my taste in music.

I don't need my whole music collection on my phone (which doubles as music player). The 40 Gig that I can spare for music has been plenty, so far.

Hard drives are cheap. Ripping all my CDs once as FLAC means that I don't have to shuffle through 700+ CDs to find the one I'm looking for.
Also, some of my older CDs were already unreadable or hard to read. Having a backup in original quality is important.

I buy music online in FLAC or WAV format from:
Bandcamp.com
Bleep.com
Boomkat.com
FSOLdigital.com
Junodownload.com
and others

Or I download legally for free in FLAC format from Archive.org.

No. FLAC is for idiots who don't see any reason to throw away some information that might be of use later (say when mixing, postprocession etc. the music) just because it saves a little space on a insanely cheap hard drive.

High quality MP3s sound good enough, I agree. But when I store something, I store it in the best quality possible, even if I don't need that quality right now in everyday use. Things change, and I might need it later on.

Repeat after me: There where no reviews for Zoe Quinns game after she supposedly or actually had sex with journalists.
The whole premise of this 'scandal' is factually wrong.

Now, if you Gamergaters would actually go after the real problems in gaming journalism, I would be alll for it, but instead you continue to attack women (and strangely enough almost exclusively women) in gaming.

Funny you say that, because that's EXACTLY what this news is about: While Googles Project Ara goes the 'everything is a module' route, the newcomer Vsenn has a design with only three replacable modules.

Reading isn't your strong suit, right?
GP explicitely said that he sees advantages 'only for a small group of people'. So nobody claims that modular phones a good for everyone.

But for those few with special use cases or special needs modular phones can be a boon.

You pretend that Google displaying more than the headline and the link would keep people away from visiting the news site.
That is just outright wrong.

1. If Google didn't display the link at all, there would be no people to not visit this link.
2. The newspapers themselves often put the most essential bit of information in the headline.
3. Google sends MILLIONS of visitors per month to the newspapers.Even if it was true that displaying some of the content would stop some people from following the link, the net gain for the newspapers is still enormous.

So... Chinese hackers hack into servers of US agencies to find out why US agencies hacked into Chinese servers to find out why Chinese hackers hacked into...

No, I don't see any problem with that.

The same happens when I buy on eBay or Amazon Marketplace.
Lot's of Chinese vendors there that ship from China.

Also, US vendors lie on the customs sticker as well, if they care to put that information on a package at all.
I live in Germany and I order from all around the world, Every time I need to go to the customs offices to pick up a package because it was not declared properly it's a package from the US or Australia.

Sure. But the question whether somebody is a 'customer' (actually a 'consumer', as the law is about 'Verbraucher') when using Google products or not is a matter of law. Personal opinions have not practical impact.

drinkypoo tries to argue semantics, when the only definition of 'customer' that is relevant here is the one that German law uses.

Well, since this is about a German court talking about German consumers and (I assume) addressing Google Germany, German law is pretty much all that matters.

Point is that that's not enough for Google to fulfill their legal obligation. They have to read the emails and (supposedly) react in some meaningful way.

If I look at the last 60 years I come to the conclusion that the US has become the new Germany.