Well, forcing it to trade-in it's Hummer for a tax credit to buy a new Tesla, Prius or Leaf would be a start -- also, banning sodas, severely taxing and restricting smoking and requiring fast food franchises to offer healthy alternatives can't hurt.

Though they may make claims that piracy is a great compliment and testament to the show's popularity, it's clear that they would like to curtail piracy by offering legal avenues of watching the show as evidenced by their recent launch of HBO Now and scheduling the release of new episodes to happen simultaneously world wide.

Personally, I was a hater of HBO for the last few years due to their open hostility to Netflix, their taking of sides AGAINST Net Neutrality and their tying of their streaming service to Comcast et al -- but I've come to forgive them a bit because of their work with Amazon in bringing their back catalog of originals for internet streaming free to Amazon Prime users and their launch of HBO Now, which I have signed up for.

So it pains me a bit to see HBO change tact and offer a compelling streaming service only to suffer a massive leak by a trusted party so soon after it's debut. While I'm sure HBO will take it in stride, I've long said that if these bad actors like HBO could offer legal channels to get their content without a wait, I would sign-up and not pirate. But, with this action and the amount of seeders and leachers, it seems the use case claimed by many -- that they only pirate due to not having a clear legal means to watch without having to wait several months for the DVD release -- is the exception and not the rule.

They most certainly had pagers and carphones were the ultimate status symbol in the early to mid-80s

Due to my own empirical observations, I would have to disagree. In my late teens and early twenties when studying liberal arts, philosophy and making my living as an illustrator and animator, I rarely drank but would smoke weed pretty frequently and maintained a 3.6 to 4.0 GPA without even trying.

However, when I decided to teach myself to code a few years later, I found the weed really got in the way, so bought some beer and found I could drink a fair amount of beer and still grok the info I needed and retain it. As such, I stopped smoking weed and started drinking for my recreational pleasure.

The Universe is not an iGadget -- we don't need the new shiny to replace the old just to get new features. So get past your short sighted grasp of existence and learn to realize that by fully understanding something, we can set ourselves to better exploiting it instead of wasting energy looking for things that don't exist. And it's not like we are anywhere near having a complete understanding of the universe or it's composition. So anything we can lock down is a major step forward regardless of how "revolutionary" it may be on a superficial level.

I like John Oliver, but his attempts at humor early in the interview just came off as awkward at best. However, he did finally hit his stride when he started in with his survey results, which showed Americans have no clue and even less concern with educating themselves on todays issues much less wanting to do anything about it. Hopefully Snowden got the message -- that coming here to "Face Trial" as he has supposedly been mulling over would not serve any sort of public debate or discourse that could create change, but only be ratings fodder for Fox and CNN. Because yes -- American's don't care, Americans don't want to know, Americans just want to be given shiny things.

Yes, considering human advancement can be measured by energy consumption it's EXACTLY what we need. And even better that it uses Aluminum instead of toxic Lithium. Now turn in your geek card and get the fuck out. You're not a techie, not a nerd, not a geek, you're just a progressive liberal troll who thinks living like a Hobbit is where it's at. So go take your troll act somewhere else.

As long as it means more profits for almighty Job Creators and lower Gas Prices for me, then I'm all for it. Go tell Gore and his lying "scientists" to go get some real education at Church.

Well, better late than never for the realization that "progressive liberals" are every bit as hateful, willfully ignorant and bigoted as the "teabaggers" they consider their arch-nemesis. You can thank American Mainstream "News" Media for bringing America into such a divisive political state where ideology trumps common sense and reason and debate are considered tools of the foolhardy "moderates".

Don't forget the "Taptic Engine" a haptic feedback mechanism that creates a "tapping" sensation on your wrist. Personally, that bit is great -- I can be notified of a text or call during a meeting and check the pertinent info quietly and discreetly.

They'll do it for $300 per photo, but there's no guarantee they wont be reposted a day later.

> *scatters pencils across the floor*
> *laughs at damn_registrar's howls of anguish*

Have a FB account don't use it. Have Twitter don't use it. Maybe I'm just super boring -- but I have nothing I feel the need to broadcast or share online. But seeing how we've invented words like "overshare" -- I suspect most people fail to realize that very little actually merits a twat or wallposting

Right after jettisoning the unprofitable divisions of NASA, USPS and the EPA, Carly's next big agenda will be merging Mexico with the US to strengthen it's cheap labor market to compete with China and solve the immigration problem for once and for all.

Bro-fisted, chest-bumped and laughed our asses off! I mean, stop doing what we do best? That'll be the day.