Dont be fooled, the corporations and governments will craft legislation to give them all the power they want to collect all the data they want, think: national security.

What Privacy Acts really do, In countries like Canada, is protect the governments and protect the corporations.
its so simple
"sorry we cant release that information because it would violate the persons privacy"

Executives, Politicians, Middle Managers, Bureaucrats, they are all people too, they all have a right to privacy, right?
customer complaints, federal suits, "sorry, we cant release those, privacy"
This happens all the time to Canadian media.

It should come to no surprise to any one that there are 3.2 Million people in North America that will be buying these TV's
Think about all those douchebags, jersey shore fans, non tech people, and guys that just want to show off to the Jones's next door. I do not think any one is worried about these tv's not selling this holiday season.

I'm being cremated, so you'll have to shit in my ashes.

I'll have my family email you with where my remains will be spread.

For the record, I've killed hundreds of millions of potential babies, but no "alive" babies.

Also, die in a fire.

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are the reasons this place is going to shit.

They've all been programmed to obey authority without questioning.

LOL, yeah, I'm a fucking KILLING MACHINE!

Have you ever served in the military?

Do you really think we're unable to think for ourselves?

Are you really comparing the military to prison?

I served my country, 5 years in the Marine Corps. I've been all over the world, to countries that saying anything about the leader of that country could get you thrown in prison or worse.
This is a knee-jerk reaction to a kid's momentary lapse of judgement.

You know nothing about me, and it seems, not a whole lot about anything.

Love the lack of free speech here.

Burn a flag, protest, do whatever, but HOW DARE YOU CALL OUR PRESIDENT A PRICK!

You sir, will never visit our country!

Sometimes I can't believe I live in this country, it's so goddamned weird.

"Why wouldn't I just use Windows 7 then?"

No where in the NE (United States at least) does the average humidity level "hover" around 80%, at least not that I could find in my 2 seconds of googling.

That's insane. More like 40-50% is the norm. (Which is still ridiculous. Right now, in Northern Virginia where I live, the temp is 96F with 31% humidity. I just got back from Vegas and it was 109F with much less humidity. Which one was worse? I dunno man, both were stupid hot.

No, they'll answer you, they'll tell you what you want to hear.

Then...they'll do whatever the hell they want. What? You elected them!

(Sadly, that's how it seems to go all over the world.)

Nah, man, see you just don't get it.

Any time in my life I've ever heard that phrase, it was being uttered by a complete and utter tool.

(Why yes, I do use it in day-to-day conversation, why do you ask?)

With their families watching.

I hate people. No, not you, but them. Over there. Next to the oranges.

What they would like is a way to get rid of the event horizon so that they can see what goes on behind it.

Am I understanding this? We don't really know how black holes work, but we know the event horizon is the point where light and other matter stop "coming out the other side", and in order to see what's on the other side, they want to dstroy a black hole?

two things...

Thing 1: head asplode

Thing 2: How is this a good thing to do? Aren't they basically stating that they don't understand how or why this is occurring, but they want to destroy something to figure out what goes on behind it? When are they planning to do this? December 21st, 2012?

I can see it now....someone says something dumb, Frank from Accounting comes over to their side of the conference table, jumps up on it and proceeds to tea bag them.

Yeah, MMO-like corporate worlds could be fantastic.