Lying? By rule Verizon's new LTE network isn't technically 4G. Neither is Sprint's WiMax. T-Mobile's HSPA+ network is an upgrade and significantly increases data rates for the users. I guess technically it would be like 3.5G but from the very loose 3G and 4G marketing speak, 4G fits for me. Maybe when T-Mobile goes to advanced LTE they will call it 4.5G.

For anybody that hasn't tried swype, give it a shot. Very quick input. The tutorial takes 2 minutes and you'll be an expert in half a day. I love it.

If you drive a car you HAVE to have insurance. If you go to the hospital you HAVE to have insurance. Who goes to the hospital? EVERYBODY.

I wish the focus would be on health insurance reform so that the doctors and facilities providing the services make most of the money, not administrative costs and executive compensation.

What about the ipod touch? if you put the two devices together then they do have a substantial market share. Competition law could come into play here. You are right that it wouldn't be exactly like Microsoft's case but it might be for a judge to decide whether or not Apple is playing fair.

In context he was right... search engines retain information and he cant guarantee that google can keep the information that it gathers private. His inner politician must have been off that day because he should have used more PC words. But i actually applaud him for being honest, and saying something that we all know to be true... with the patriot act in play, no information is private or safe if the feds want it.

You're underlying issues arnt with google but with all search engines because they are required to keep this information.

Or an awful lot that are currently going to college and serving in the military at the same time, and are becoming more educated.

Dude... they just released it. Tom Tom sucked when it was first released, and you have to pay for upgrades. Google collects massive amounts of data (it's what they specialize in). They've only just started to put it all together. Imagine a couple of releases later. This service will rock, give it time.

To play games online you do have to update.

Agreed, but

People who "live off of" soda and bags of chips tend to be poorer and less educated http://dailyuw.com/2009/1/23/paying-price-obesity/. These people also are the sickest and use up a substantial portion of health care resources - and general welfare resources. Have you seen the US's balance sheet lately? We can't afford to simple "not judge" obesity. Turning a blind eye, as you seem to imply is not even an attempt at a solution.

This company makes a fantastic on street meter: http://ipsgroupinc.com/

Is it not time to require recycling of plastic, glass, and metal for everybody? It really doesn't take that much effort, and it has cut down on my trash output so much that I no longer have trash service. Between recycling and composting I throw away 1 bag of trash every 2 weeks, which I drive to the dump myself for free.

If that is too cumbersome for most people then how about the federal government impose packaging standards that helped reduce waste? For example, how about we promote "refills" for things like detergent, and soaps instead of buying the whole plastic container again? It seems like something simple like that would have immediate impact in help solving pollution problems like this as well as using less plastic (or foreign oil to take it to another level).