I'm all for being brief and getting directly to the point, but either a lot of details are going to be left out of an "article" or will be a overly complex run-on sentence. I don't want to have to read 18 different images (with accompanying ads) just to get the full story of something more complex than what can be said in a slightly more than a single tweet.

Using made up numbers, You pay Uber $10. Uber takes $2.80, but gives back a $5 bonus incentive for being a new driver. The driver returns the $10 to the customer/accomplice plus 1/2 of what's left. The accomplice makes $1.60 and the driver makes $1.60 and Uber is out $3.20 (or more if you account for other overhead)

Anyone know why I can't get to any search engine now?

Spotify raises $526m. Apple as of earlier this year had $178b in cash reserves. Now obviously Apple isn't going to spend all it's reserves, but you're going to need a lot more than that money to win a fight against Apple.

A little bit later in the article it states "Heâ(TM)s one of no more than 50 people in Australia known to have the antibodies, according the Australian Red Cross blood service."

My guess is that he's not the only one that could be used, but only one person donating is needed to meet supply demands.

If you're a freelancer or don't have a regular employer sending you paychecks, you don't have wages that can be garnished. If you calculate your tax withholding or estimated taxes right, you don't give the government an interest free loan and you won't have a return that will be garnished. If you have little assets, suing you probably will cost them more than they could recover.

Life would probably become more difficult than someone with good credit, but probably not impossible. You aren't going to qualify for car loans or mortgage, but renting isn't impossible with bad or no credit as long as you aren't real picky and can make a few month's down payment.

Wage garnishment, IRS refund garnishment, indefinite threat of lawsuit for federally held loans too.

That's pretty racist and stereotypical. Sanjay helps with tech support. Ming helps with math.

if they get the public to vilify encryption users as criminals

It's really hard to vilify encryption users when everyone is a encryption user. Sign on to anything recently? Bam. You're now an villainous encryption user.

There was a recent legal case that dealt with this exact thing. AF Holdings (aka Prenda Law) sued Joe Navasca accusing him of pirating porn via Bittorrent in January of 2012, but didn't file any paperwork on the case until May 2012. During discovery AF accused Navasca of improperly spoliated evidence by using CCleaner to clean his hard drive. The judge found that the defendant had been using the program regularly for several years prior to the lawsuit and until Navasca was served, had no duty to preserve any evidence.

Sorry, but there's a reason that Dropbox, Twitter, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and everyone else has an Irish datacenter - they have to control and process UK and EU user's data within the EU, according to strict laws, or risk enormous fines.

The fact that they have some of the most favorable corporate tax laws allowing them to shield billions from US taxes by setting up a nexus there I'm sure has nothing to do with it.

Wow. Train your replacements. Bit like making the condemned sharpen the guillotine before they step up.

If you are going to get your head cut off regardless, you might as well make it as sharp as possible...

No, it means you don't have to have a terrestrial or satellite cable TV subscription in order to subscribe to the streaming service.

That isn't the actual recall notice, it's the press release about the recall notice. Just about every non-financial press release I've ever read has some blurb equally fluffy about the company or division that is releasing the press release.

This is genius (assuming people get to like the style). It is such a pain to try to work on anything around the house when you have to guess where the conduits go, or fiddle with a plumbing trap through a one foot opening that can't even fit a slip wrench. Walls covered with pulverized rocks made a lot of sense when they were just there for privacy but now that the lifeblood of a house is running through them architects should figure out how to make the whole system more accessible.

Thanks for allowing me to remember how I felt before I got married and had my design decisions told to me.