It's a simple matter of economics. You get the most honking for your buck. It's clearly an obvious no-brainer.

See, this is the thoughtless sort of legislation that makes the world an awful place to live. I immediately see your tax as an incentive to hardwire the horn on. I pay at most $.1 per trip in horn tax, and still get to use it as much as I like.

And apps, apparently. My luddite tendencies are catching up to me. Smart what? My phone remembers peoples' phone numbers for me, I think that's pretty effing smart. I still don't even use bookmarks -- if I can't remember the URL, the website wasn't that important to begin with.

You type the www for hostnames that don't need it? Get off my slashdot, luser.

Don't get your hopes up. I've got a different theory: people have stopped using google to find / research facebook. Those who use facebook use it more than they use the rest of the internet -- they don't need to find it, it's the first thing their browser opens. Those who don't use it already know what it is. No need to google it.

This is already EXACTLY what happens. The Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), for example, is a private company whose largest (though not sole, if you read between the lines... a comforting thought) client is the NSA. So basically, Obama's "reform" is "don't worry guys, we'll totally change everything: third parties will collect and analyze your information, the NSA will only purchase access to that information. Just like we're already doing." Sadly, this is "change I can believe in" 'cause it's the same bullshit I've come to expect from this twofaced asshole.

If you shoot your victim to death, and there's no evidence that their participation wasn't consentual, then it wasn't murder, right?

Whereas some prefer products imbued with the souls of broken political prisoners. Transparency benefits everybody, really.

When would I find time to read when I'm already so busy inventing?

Or, if you want to try your hand at meta regex golf there's a place for that, too.