Well, your system is just as stupid because it makes it even harder for the "little guy" to patent something. He might not have any money for it, and while he comes up with it someone else with deeper pockets might snatch his idea and patent it themselves.

You say: "your community" is richer--where "your community" is a book store.
But you make it seem as if the money the book store receives disappears, but presumably it goes to improve the local community? What about the money the local bookstore receives from you and pays taxes with?

As a customer, seems to me paying a bit less to "foreign" companies just to save some money for myself is bad in the long term? Similar to WalMart's deal.

Just asking questions that popped into my head and would like some clarification on your post.

Just because you haven't heard of the guy who designed both the Maps app and Siri doesn't mean it wasn't a very significant move for them to sack him. I don't know the names or importance of any Obama cabinet members in the US but I bet they're kind of significant.

Presumably it will make things better in the future, but a public apology and important heads rolling is at least an acknowledgement that they want to do things better.

But if everyone can copy what you do in seconds, what will be the incentive to research and develop? Businesses are businesses...

Just because you "try your best" to eat healthy doesn't mean you can throw out decades of nutritional studies.

Look, it doesn't matter how many sugary drinks your acquaintances gulp down every day, what matters in the end is how many calories they burn compared to you.

If you work out once a day and the rest of your time is spent at a desk in near-immobility, while they have a physically active job, then they're going to burn more calories than you. Regardless if you work out and don't drink soda.

The only logical conclusion is that you're somehow ingesting more calories than you need and burning less than you should (if your goal is to be thinner).

It doesn't matter if you believe you are "doing it better". It's simply physically impossible for you to consume less calories and stay fatter.

So yes, it is all in the foods consumed.

Of course, this does not mean they are healthier than you, but it also does not mean you are healthier, or that drinking 8 sugary drinks per day is conducive to being as thin as they are.

I don't email directly anymore, I post on G+, recipients receive it in whatever means they favor, email, text notice, online, G+ account, whatever. If they don't have a google account, it goes to their email.

What happens if Google decides they don't like you and you get banned from their service?

Agreed. Even the comments that ask "Why is Stratfor evil" are at least more inquisitive than the people automatically saying Anon was right. It's ridiculous how "educated" commenters don't know about Stratfor.

You're pretty ignorant about this.

Anyone can access Stratfor's content for about 100 dollars per year. And if you just subscribe to their newsletter (no money required) they send free "intelligence" reports every few days.

It's not like only companies can receive their information, any global citizen can educate themselves if they choose to, have "First mover" advantage.

Their analysis are usually very informative, no bias (unlike "free" news), and from my limited understanding, they tend to get a lot of their information and predictions right.

It's like hacking Slashdot for offering a subscription option or something. I don't agree with this move by Anon.

We could have literally half the country in the streets and these political cocksuckers wouldn't bat an eye. They might be a bit scared, but in the worst case scenario they'll fly away in a chopper surrounded by armed guards.

This is funny to me because that's literally what happened in Mexico in the last Presidential election.

Current mexican president Calderon won by a controversial advantage of a few hundred votes. The opposing candidate's supporters made a human blockade to stop him from swearing in as president before there was an official recount. No cars could get through, and the voters felt they had accomplished something and the people would be heard.

Then Calderon arrived in a helicopter, ignoring everyone on the ground and swearing in quite speedily.

I used Opera for a long time, but after switching to a Mac, I have to say the OSX version is not as good as windows.

Can't even get gestures to work with my multitouch trackpad, which led me to switch to Safari. Not unhappy with the switch, actually.

But Opera feels very neglected on the Mac...

Not only that, you can now mirror the display from your iPad to a HDTV (via AppleTV), so yeah, they're pretty much there already.

Nintendo is probably freaking out right now, considering their next Wii U peripheral looks like a gimped iPad, and popular DS games like Scribblenauts are being released on an Apple platform now.

I too have read that fevers are a way for the body to get rid of some extraneous bodies like harmful bacteria and viruses, basically "boiling" them alive inside your flesh (someone else might explain this much better, but that's the basic concept).

But since tumors are just masses of flesh created by a disfunction in the immune system, would fevers help at all?

You'd have to treat the reason that the immune system malfunctioned, no?

Just wondering, perhaps the fevers were not caused by his body "killing the cancer", but a side effect, a reaction to foreign bodies invading the system.