I have to correct you here. What Goggle actually sells is you and your information so that personalized ads can be targeted directly to you. That's why they scan your email and want you to disclose all of that nice, personal information in Google+.

It's the same with broadcast television. You aren't the customer buying the product (TV shows) with your watching the commercials the price. The advertiser is the customer buying the product and the product is you. The TV show is part of the Costs of Goods Sold.

I used to play Asteroids. I wasn't very good at it.

Don't you mean, "loose you're shit"?

It doesn't sound that evil to me...

That's backwards. The government needs a "good reason" to propose a rule, NOT a "good reason" not to.

And I totally agree with your signature calling for the repeal of the 17th Amendment.

Incorrect. SIPC (Securities Investor Protection Corporation) insurance protects cash up to $250,000 and cash and securities up to $500,000 per account. Most brokerage firms carry additional insurance, usually called "excess SIPC coverage".

Mt. Gox was the tavern bookie that you left your winnings with, with no insurance or regulation at all.

One man's downside is another's clear advantage.

I am totally uninterested in a single-cup solution as it is a huge negative to wait for the cup to brew when I can just pour another one from my pot-plus thermos. I get my good coffee for a far lower price per cup and it stays nice and warm all day long, or at least until it's drained around 3pm.

That's the first thing that popped into my head also. What was the name of that show?

Gun-phobe. To this person, seeing a firearm in a holster on someone's hip is perceived as the same thing as that person "waving a big knife" around kids at a school, NOT the same thing as seeing a big knife in a sheath on that person's hip. A firearm in a holster on a hip with no attempt to draw attention to it at all (much less in a threatening manner) is being "flashed" at him because it's there and he's afraid of it.

Good luck reversing ANY government program, no matter how bad. Once a program is finally pushed through it doesn't matter how disastrous it turns out to be it's now some politically-connected group's (if they weren't politically connected it would never have been passed) God-Given Entitlement. Anyone trying to repeal it is trying to Beat Women and Starve Children.

I read a recent article that sodium boiler/reflector solar generators are literally burning the feathers off of migratory birds.

Windmills: The Politically Correct way to kill eagles.

Nah. They'll become ghouls and attack the smooth-skins at Tenpenny Tower.

I signed up for ShopRunner with an American Express card for free lifetime (supposedly) 2nd-day shipping. Newegg is one of the stores covered.

Right now at Amazon I'm using my Discover card (and not my Discover points) as Discover's Oct-Dec 5% bonus is on "any internet orders". (And I do have Prime there.)