Under Bush, our country was attacked despite the fact that FBI agents tried unsuccessfully to warn about it; gasoline more than quadrupled in price (very suspicious; he's an oil man); got us into two wars, one of which was not only completely unnecessary but led to the rise of ISIS; took office in some of the best economic conditions I've seen in my life and left the economy in worse shape than any time since the great depression.

I never thought I'd see a worse President than Carter, who was far worse than Obama, but Bush proved me wrong.

Under Obama the wars are over, unemployment is half of what it was, gasoline is half what it cost under Bush. He's by no means a great President, but you have to remember that the Republicans' #1 agenda was to make his a failed Presidency.

The two best Presidents in my lifetime were, I think, Eisenhower and Clinton.

How else would you characterize this song from their third album?

"After Forever"

Have you ever thought about your soul - can it be saved?
Or perhaps you think that when you're dead you just stay in your grave
Is God just a thought within your head or is he a part of you?
Is Christ just a name that you read in a book when you were in school?

When you think about death do you lose your breath or do you keep your cool?
Would you like to see the Pope on the end of a rope - do you think he's a fool?
Well I have seen the truth, yes I've seen the light and I've changed my ways
And I'll be prepared when you're lonely and scared at the end of our days

Could it be you're afraid of what your friends might say
If they knew you believe in God above?
They should realize before they criticize
that God is the only way to love

Is your mind so small that you have to fall
In with the pack wherever they run
Will you still sneer when death is near
And say they may as well worship the sun?

I think it was true it was people like you that crucified Christ
I think it is sad the opinion you had was the only one voiced
Will you be so sure when your day is near, say you don't believe?
You had the chance but you turned it down, now you can't retrieve

Perhaps you'll think before you say that God is dead and gone
Open your eyes, just realize that he's the one
The only one who can save you now from all this sin and hate
Or will you still jeer at all you hear? Yes! I think it's too late.

You should *fight the hypocrites because they are much more dangerous than those who are fundamentally heretics*

Agreed.

Yes, which is why I installed Thunderbird. I now still have my old 10+ year old email address and a stable email client. My phone's email client works well with the yahoo email as well.

Just install a real email client and your problems vanish.

Cheney is an evil man who was Vice President during the worst administration I've seen in my 62 years and possibly the worst in history.

Yes, if you listen casually to early Black Sabbath music, it sounds like a celebration of evil, but if you listen carefully it's actually Christian music. Hell, Iron Maiden's two minutes to midnight is an anti-abortion song. Twisted Sister was hauled in front of Congress for the "bloody" song under the blade; the song is about undergoing surgery.

I don't think that's what TFA was talking about. In the Ozzie case, the dad found the son dead and a song named "suicide solution". None of the lyrics could be misunderstood to sound like he was advocating suicide. The grieving father saw the title and jumped to conclusions.

I expected that new installs would have Yahoo as the default, but I didn't expect them to change settings on already installed and configured browsers. Nobody with any brains or ethics changes settings on someone else's computer without permission. It's just wrong.

Exactly. You simply don't change settings on someone else's computer unless they ask you to.

Who else is hurt by it? Their stockholders? They OWN Sony. The employees? They ARE Sony. Playstation owners? Serves them right for buying Sony equipment.

There are no innocents here.

Sony is hardly a "little old lady" and ruining someone's computer is hardly "cutting someone off"; it's a felony that should have been prosecuted, but wasn't. The guy who burglarized my house a couple of years ago is lucky the cops caught him before I did.

If Sony had repaid me for the damage and apologized I would forgive them, but if you want something from me you have to ASK. They didn't.

Again, fuck Sony, I wouldn't feel sorry for the asshole who broke into my house if someone broke into his. And I don't feel sorry for Sony.

Actually when I read, especially something by a good writer, it is like Total recall; I get immersed. And I don't think I'd want to use that machine for a virtual vacation!

Have you seen Asimov's Dreaming is a private thing? It's in his anthology Earth is Room Enough. All I could find on the internet was a pdf; there is an intro by someone else.

It was 10 years ago.

So what? They have shown no indication that they will become less evil. Why would you buy computer equipment from a company willing to hack its customers?

Lots of large companies do lots of suspect things and you never hear about it.

I'll know about it if I'm one of their victims. And, so it's "well, everybody else shoplifts and teases nerds, why shouldn't I?" Just because someone else is being evil gives you no right to be evil as well.

You might think its karma for Sony getting hacked but what about all the innocent people who get hurt too?

I don't believe in karma, and I was one of the innocent people Sony's hacking hurt. If Sony's stockholders get hurt, GOOD. Owning Sony stock is evil. Their employees? What is a company, but its employees? Would you work for the Cosa Nostra just because they were hiring? Then why would you take a position with them?

Hacking Sony harms no innocents. If you work for them, you're part of the problem. If you own stock you're the biggest part of the problem.

Why are defending evil? Are you a Sony employee?

Sony's sins go far beyond XCP and OtherOS.