This is all great satire. Except Amazon doesn't make profits.

The role of the POTUS is not to create budgets, only to approve or veto. Per the US Constitution, it is the responsibility of Congress to create and pass budgets.

This will go nowhere.

The POTUS approves or disapproves of budgets. Per the US Constitution, it is the responsibility of Congress to create and pass budgets.

This will go nowhere.

http://www.reuters.com/article... NSA ~ RSA

Where are my mod points? Insightful!

More and more, I am beginning to believe that we either make ourselves comfortable with the fact that all information of any kind WILL flow through these digital lines, or we oppress ourselves with biased rules and unfair restrictions on freedom of speech.

I think we can adapt our expectations to the new paradigm. But it will take a lot of time and testing of our pre-set inhibitions and impulse to hide to adapt our culture to the information age in such a way that it doesn't make us prisoners of rules.

It's their ability to get results that needs to change. Our attitudes will reflect what outcomes we observe, thank you very much.

So those people who care for that "someone's son", should live and die by their bad decisions to leave our guns. Not the rest of society.

Thank you for correcting our interest in space.

I'm sure all of humanity will never again wonder if they can travel through it.

There are satellites exploding up there!

Of course itzly, you know this has nothing to do with getting your job done better.

This issue is about style. One of the things that has a big impact on a human being's mood is being exposed to a new aesthetic. I will have plenty of time to sit around in the same stagnant environment for eternity when I'm dead.

For now, let's just embrace the fact that constant change is here to stay.

I was going to say almost exactly this. +1 You are correct.

If in the end Anonymous' one single effect on the real world is to cause people to think cautiously about ridiculously hooking up everything to the internet for laziness, er ... convenience, they will have been nothing more than a boon to the wisdom of humanity. Let's hope that's all they cause.

Doesn't access to my Gmail account allow people to "recover" my password to just about everything?

The concepts of an iPhone and user freedom/control are mutually exclusive.

I did not comment on cultural or societal trends. Let's go over this again!

"There is only one kind of systematic prejudice in today's institutions."

And that is exactly correct. The only systematic favoritism that practiced in schools is to single out people who are not white or not male. That is absolutely indisputable fact.

It may please some goal you have to "fix" something you've seen. Just don't go around pretending that your "fix" is only affecting the people you've decided to care about. You cannot systematically favor everyone who is female without also targeting everyone who is male with disfavoritism.

But I get it. It doesn't bother you that a poor, disadvantaged young white boy, who may have instability or poverty at home has no one to give him that extra help he may need. But he does watch everyone else in a similar situation to his own get extra support while he gets none.

Do you think his heart will grow to let go of prejudices easily? Maybe its time your "protected status" crusade should include him as well.