Lets face the facts: That privacy culture is exactly why they are the target of these investigations.

I agree, it is unfair that Google is being held to such a higher standard. However, I also think with their privacy culture, they SHOULD be putting their money where their mouth is, like this, and hire a team of specialists to address privacy issues with their products.

The fact that other companies sweep their problems under the rug and that we instead complain about Google for the problems we admit, only propagates the problem of sweeping privacy issues under the rug.

I don't know why people focus so much on Google. A lot of other companies have far worse privacy practices, and many of those companies make absolutely no attempt to provide proper privacy or user data security.

Just take Facebook for example.

From what I've experienced here in Ohio, people who talk on the cell phone while driving do so anyways even with the laws banning it.

The people who do this are the self-absorbed reckless fools who feel those sorts of laws apply to everyone but them. They are the kind of person that will nearly wreck into you while talking on the cell phone, then blame you for it. It's not them who are reckless, it's everyone else. They are convinced they can drive perfectly safe while talking on the cell phone, so the law doesn't apply to them, it's not like they will get caught, or so they tell themselves.

I prefer the idea of Medicare Buy in for all in the US. It's been proposed several times, and never passed. The fact is, that if Government health care is so incredibly awful, why are the for-profit insurance companies afraid of a system in which they would have to compete for it? This is the question that they avoid.

I knew the day would come when we would start mining our old garbage for natural resources. Now it's just a question of how long until we break out the cranes and start digging up all the old landfills for the valuable plastics and metals.

I may not be traditional in thinking this or I'm too traditional, back to the origins of the comic before they got dumbed down and censored. However, comics and cartoons are an excellent medium for illustrating news and points. If anything, the fact that people don't get as easily offended by them makes opinion pieces less likely to receive a negative response, and thus more likely to be understood, even if they aren't agreed with. Additionally, illustrations and animations make for the ability to create graphs and other representations, that you just can't get across well in text. Generally people scoff at the idea, saying it's for those with short attention spans, or they fear the dancing Bologna phenomena that came with the dawn of the animated GIF. However, I think most of us here are sophisticated enough not to make such terrible mistakes, and those of us who aren't will be weeded out by the Karma System