Doctors give placebos to deathly sick patients all the time for research purposes.
Patients agree beforehand just as FB users and those aren't even (that) sick.

'Must be "stultia gravis" cases'

"Did you mean stultitia gravis? (extreme stupidity). Kinda funny which word you'd misspell when trying to appear superior to the masses."

I was using the Facebook spelling. :-)

First, the day that Facebook let people share their organ donor status, the U.S. saw a 21-fold increase in people registering to be organ donors."

Now they only need a motorcycle.

" Second, they noticed users with chronic conditions had a tendency to search Facebook for advice. "

Must be "stultia gravis" cases

Google prepared to throw away 10 billion dollar to crash said lawsuit.

"Then eBay can become a bank. "

Since July 2007, PayPal has operated across the European Union as a Luxembourg-based bank.

Let's wait what the Asimov family has to say about that stunt.
Some warm, balmy, financial rain coming.

Look who's talking.
Somebody from a 'Killer Brand'.

"Meh, corporations will simply set up mailboxes on Mars, much like they do in Luxembourg or Lichtenstein, ..."

Bullshit. I'm from Luxembourg and those companies have real offices here, they're just here because for the moment they profit from the low VAT of 15% here because of the current EU law, next year they will move on, when customers will have to pay the VAT to their local governments.

We can actually go to the Paypal Bank Offices and raise hell if there's a problem. :-)

Lichtenstein is something else entirely, there it's the foundation laws.

"Unlike the EU that closes Nuclear plants when the science clearly shows they actually save lives."

Strangely enough, the Germans had so much solar and wind power without the nukes, that they exported it to countries for so low a price (sometimes for free) that those countries had to shut down reactors too. Especially the Swiss were not amused.

And the 'saving lives' part I will believe when the ashes are cooled down in 200.000 years without hurting anybody.
And if the sites and the guards will have been paid by the energy companies for those 200.000 years.

Everything working OK, only the 'phone' part sucking?

No thanks.

"... even than Visa's ($17.9 billion), Facebook's ($16 billion), and General Motors ($15.8 billion)"

A payment method, a time waster and a 'products that kill you' company.

Here you can actually buy stuff, and lots of it has free shipping, may it be to Ouagadougou, Timbuktu or Buttfuck, Idaho.

You know, useful.

You!

I keep hearing that word since my VIC-20 days.

I do not think it means what you think it means.

Preferably, considering your age, one with WIFI that sends the image directly to your iPad, so that you don't have to freeze your ass off in the garden.

"In other words, they found where the poor people live by looking at phone data."

No they found out that crime happens where the criminals are.
Groundbreaking.