I think you are naive in how to get things actually changed. Those abusing their power and moving the US closer to a 1984 novel nightmare is a valid reason to not follow the "rules". It is unlikely any other method would have changed their behavior.

Ever notice that it is Musicians when it comes to some deal the riaa wants? The vast majority of the money would be coming out of the riaa's pocket and that is good news to weaken them.

so if he had use a chemical attack and killed people you would want to ban house hold cleaners? What about cars? Dumb.

The last mass violence spree was with a knife. So he is going to do what, ban knifes? Ban anything that can be used to hurt people?

The elephant in the room is that mental health services have been slashed for decades and even when people are identified as being unstable there is little that is or can be done to help them before they become violent.

more importantly, alienating current Customers that will abandon the service.

the Streisand Effect had a negative effect and in this case I think rice is toxic to dropbox and will also have a negative effect to their business

every time they bring up obamacare there are almost instantly stories of private health insurance refusing to insure people or grossly overcharging families. The gop appear to be out of touch with what is important to people.

the current tv landscape has already been disrupted. It is only a matter of if networks and cable come kicking and screaming or become irrelevant. So far, looks like networks are choosing to become irrelevant.

the young people are leaving facebook and soon the jackals will start to smell blood. None of the reasons listed to make it hard to leave facebook are really that sticky. It is not like they own your house. Next big thing and people will stampede out of facebook like they did myspace.

My 2 cents is that walled gardens even when successful have a shelf life. If you were trying to milk the most money out of your product and have the longest lifespan I would open it up and take advantage of all the users that are willing to develop or add content for free like Roku has done.

The fact that John Carmack was not told about the deal until after facebook bought it tells a lot about how this will likely play out. My prediction is that facebook has effectively killed the oculus.

reading crap like this makes more sense why at&t is not taking care of their Customers and upgrading their network. They are too worried about screwing people instead of providing their service.

Have you ever checked the profitability of private healthcare? It is in a huge boom right now so there is you answer of where all the money is going. Some private healthcare CEOs bonus.

The US has healthcare costs nearly double the next first world country and it was that way before Obamacare. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F... Private healthcare is the villain you are looking for.

kurt sutter is lying. Money does not get back to the content creators, it goes to middle men and movie studio CEOs. When you start looking into the details you see hollywood accounting is letting these leeches steal legally from those that create content. It is well understood that music bands don't make their money from the sell of their music, but mostly from their live shows. So where does all that money go? Not to the content creators. This is an old dying business model that kurt sutter is clinging to and I am glad is changing.