Most people in my own country of Canada haven't had unlimited data for years and everyone I know still has a NetFlix account.

Not that I LIKE not having unlimited data but it actually has not limited my internet use to any significant extent.

I, for one, am highly impressed that they only managed 78% with a 50 km margin of error.

That must have taken a real effort to be so inaccurate.

Protect us from having to evolve our business!

Links. Links to "all the data". Prove it.

You all speak of the consumer's right to "make an informed choice" but you forget that almost all consumers are uninformed.

My freedom includes the right not to have my right to consume better, genetically-modified food (as backed by actual science) ruined by the paranoia of a propaganda-fueled public.

Please explain to me why I should trust Joe Blow Consumer and his paranoid ability to ruin the market viability of my preferred product, because "his friends say it is bad" over the opinions of actual scientists.

I'm waiting.

This argument is ridiculous. I drive my car every day in the faith that it probably won't kill me, even though I know the possibility exists.

Having certain social perception issues myself I often find myself having to specifically ask my coworkers to tell me if I am making them awkward, offending or upsetting them as often if they don't tell me, I have no idea and cannot correct my own behaviour.

Relevant:

http://www.cracked.com/article_15231_7-reasons-21st-century-making-you-miserable.html

This has already been going on in Canada for years.

The last time I was in college, almost all of my courses required a textbook with one of these codes. You did have the option to buy the codes separately, but the codes alone cost $50-100.

So it's all right to flat out pretend that you can see the future, but if you do research first, it's fraud?

We generally call it a letter and a stamp.

Perhaps you did not bother to read the comments thus far before opening your proverbial mouth. Allow me to rectify your willful ignorance.

First, nobody ever said it was the girl's phone. Perhaps Dad handed her his phone and said "Yes, you can play your game for a few minutes."

More to the point though, these games are often very subtle about how they get you to pay and buying something on a smartphone is the simplest process in the world. You hit a button, your card is instantly charged. And while the wording of a "buy premium stuff now" pop up might ring alarm bells with us mature folks - and even we miss it often enough - who can fairly blame a 9 year old for missing something designed to fly under the radar of most adults?

While I do not disagree with what you are saying, I would suggest having all of the facts before condemning specific people.