Tell you what... If you stopping making up misleading headlines I'll try and not be so cynical about them.

IMHO,

Ultimately this is a culture war and will only be won over the long term. For starters we could push back against Saudi Arabia instead of coddling them. I don't see how anyone can expect to win a war against Islamic fundamentalist terror when the spiritual center of Islam is controlled by fundamentalists with unlimited funds from oil sales. We also need to promote a more equitable distribution of wealth, world wide. Poverty breeds violence, ignorance, and fundamentalists of many stripes.

We could quit behaving like hypocrites, ignoring blatant and obscene human rights abuses by our Islamic dictatorship "allies" because it's profitable in the short term.

We could quit pissing our pants at the thought of terrorism, accept that it may occasionally happen (as it always has), and carry on instead of over reacting. Islamic fundamentalist terrorism has never represented the existential threat to western society that some would have us believe. It may be a thorn in our side for quite some time but the pain and damage it inflicts is entirely absorbable.

We should quit using this pathetic war on terror as an excuse to destroy ourselves.

The reaction to 9/11 pretty much proves that the US will accept no risk unless it's self inflicted.

How long until we hear that?

Even Nexus is only good for a few years.... I'm holding my breath for another year of N4 updates.

Absolutely. For example Microsoft's misguided decisions to do things like hide file extensions by default and obscure the way files are organized with with My Documents, symlinks, and .ini files which hide true directory names have been counter productive in my experience. These decisions only serve to assist a limited subset of users who never venture beyond routine computer use and totally screws them over when they do.

There's got to be some acceptable balance between ease of use and NOT keeping users ignorant.
What constitutes ease of use for my mother is not necessarily the same as ease of use for my kids. It seems to me that we should be designing software that will teach our kids useful skills while not deliberately obfuscating the way technology works rather than for a previous generation who may never need or want to know what's really happening.

I generally have the most fun in games with no plot at all and they tend to have more replay value.
Not to say that there aren't any fun games with plots...

Maybe we could go after the industries that paved the way, first.... Big Pharma, Oil, Defense, etc...

You have a point about Google but unless the others are dealt with, does it really matter? If the contest is between the corporations then, so far, Google remains the lesser evil.

You've restored my faith in humanity.

Good luck getting people like this guy to watch that video....

A few years ago I was hit for several thousand dollars because I was supposedly overpaid during my tenure working as a DOD civilian overseas. (less than 10 years ago at the time) The explanation for the overpayment was and remains cryptic and would change depending on which agency I spoke to, one agency said they overpaid health insurance, another said it was a housing benefit. After a year of phone calls and emails I could never get a straight, specific answer and so I could never prove them wrong. let alone find anyone willing accept any kind of responsibility for resolving the issue. After setting a collection agency on us (who we ignored because it seemed so obviously a scam), The IRS took my entire tax refund one year, and then half again the following year.

I signed up and never posted simply to use twitter credentials on other web sites.

Because all that matters is the Dropbox stock price?

Some of us will never forgive her and so some of us will cease using Dropbox.
This is legit.