you put what i was trying to say in a much more eloquent way than I...bravo...i couldn't agree more.

hate to burst your utopian-bubble, but the last time i checked, in world history Government has caused, roughly, about a bazillion times more pain and sufferings than any corporation could ever even begin to conceive of.

i can't get my head around this "trust the government" meme..."government" is nothing but a group of busybody people (yes the same type of people who work in corporations, and at taco bells, and everywhere else btw) who crave power and use personality and politics, NOT merit or compassion, to secure their base and influence and really care much less about your personal miseries and stresses then the typical corporate executive does.

its bad business to anger and kill your customers, governments rarely care about that sort of stuff, esp. they get in the way of maintaining their power over you and your life.

at least corporations have to compete for your blessings, and can pretty easily be displaced.

hmmm...so why would us Americans have to give to the feds the very number they assigned to us?

sheesh...no wonder the healthcare website cost is at over $1bil and climbing.

i just do not get this.

as someone who battles on a daily basis with the sins of my past ( nowadays even women i try to date run criminal background checks ), i don't see how this effort is going to really help anyone.the way they think it is.

there are all sorts of FREE sites that dish the public information that these people are trying to block Google from aggregating, and the moment these privacy invaders realize Google no longer is a valid source for getting the info their paranoia craves, they will find another site that does.

you are living under a proverbial pre-interwebz rock if you think this Google opt-out form is going to prevent the people are are interesting in screening and snooping from learning things from your background like felony convictions and such.

...every species was an "invasive" species to the established ones in the particular eco-system.

sure..of course eat them...uhh that's how things work on mudball Earth.

i guess meta-filter got....meta-filtered.

nope...not even close.

you can't curve and go up or "over the cliff" and down 90 degrees.

what could possibly go wrong?

...would you be willing to receive a brand new $2000 frig/freezer for free IF it showed ads on it?

that's the real issue...i think alot of people would...hell I probably would.

watch TFV...

it clearly states that air brakes will slow the machine from 1000mph to 160mph and the brakes are simply used for fine-tuning the stop location.

really??? drug users are in the same class as terrorists and pedophiles?

jesus...with attitudes like this no wonder its so impossible for me to find any work whatsoever.

...when people have been struggling with the Trolly Problem for 50 years now, with still no real success?

we should all just understand that their are certain ethical problems that simply cannot be reconciled with logic, and then just assign randomness to the outcome and be done with it.

kill the kids, kill the driver? flip a coin and good luck.

...that right now, in the midst of the NSA security nightmare and all the angst and FUD it's causing, that people are wondering why individuals are not deciding to throw their often-sensitive data into the cloud.

how could anyone think their data will be or stay safe, given the various threats that we hear about on almost a daily basis?

timing is everything (besides location of course...and sex appeal...and everything else) in life, and right now is not the time for cloud computing.

yeah...a "representative democracy" the way choosing Coke or Pepsi counts as selecting your favorite beverage.

with the two-party stranglehold its neither a democracy nor representative.

:)