The NSA is using terrorism as an excuse for industrial espionage, which then is probably then used to further enrich the already wealthy. I wouldn't be surprised if the NSA is spying for Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan to get inside information so they can trade accordingly. This would at least be consistent with the pattern of using tax payer's money to enrich a few people.

I wonder if blocking this kind of stuff is self defeating. It sort of signals what you should be looking at. If I saw that The Huffington Post was blocked, it would make me curious and I would find a way to read The Huffington Post.

But now, the printing presses are controlled by the richest people in the world, which happen to profit the most from the current money printing. The biggest banks get essentially free loans, then buy treasuries at 2% yield, profit! All while the brunt of the population has to suffer the corresponding inflation. Sure, inflation is low, if you don't eat or use any energy.

And Jon Corzine lied to congress, and there's event proof of it. But he seems to be immune from jail.

It amazes me that US prosecutors go full throttle going after people like Barrett Brown and Aaron Swartz, while people like Jon Corzine (who made $1.6B of customer money disappear at MF Global) and many other fraudsters in the banking industry are left alone to continue their fraud. And no one seems to care enough to do something about it.

If the top 5% have 80% of the wealth, shouldn't they be contributing 80% of the tax base. Or am I missing something here?

They probably bought the unlimited plan, but didn't read the fine print, where unlimited is defined as 1000 wiretaps.

What's the big deal? The market will either accept or reject this. Just don't buy it! Or buy a real espresso machine. Over the lifetime of an espresso machine, the cost of a coffee is really small, probably in the range of $0.15 - $0.25 range.

The worst part is that these loans cannot be discharged, even if you go bankrupt. In a way, I guess it makes sense. Once you finish university, you could just go bankrupt and have a free education. However, if you're stuck working low-wage jobs the rest of your life, you will never get rid of this debt.

I wonder if the language police got a whiff of programming languages being in English only. I would love to see them legislate a french programming language.

Germans split the kids into 3 different streams after grade 4. That's far too young for parents and teachers to decide whether the kid is interested is suitable for University or not.However, Germany has really great vocational schools though. Every plumber, electrician, construction worker, even baker knows their field extremely well.

Too bad that Windows is so bloated, that money savings will be eaten up by extra hardware.

Don't you see that Microsoft is secretly helping us prevent degenerative brain diseases? Forcing us to learn a new UI is like learning a new language, which is correlated with better brain health. Thank you Microsoft! I bet their next step is to randomly move buttons around after every boot. Now that would be a great workout for the brain!

Great, now I can have my blue screen of death on my smartphone too?

I'm not defending the dude, just pointing out how corrupt the justice system is.