If the NSA had actually tapped the fiber between Google and Yahoo's data centers and the internet without their knowledge and this actually turned out to be true after they investigated would either company actually publicly say "After an investigation we have found the NSA has been tapping our fiber without our knowledge and we are taking steps to stop this"? I think that highly unlikely and if anything even if this was true Google and Yahoo would continue to issue denials that this had ever happened or that it was possible.

That's not the point I was trying to make, what I was trying to point out is that one of the main heroes (Anaken) ends up being corrupted and made into one of the major villains which is not an uplifting storyline. In Titanic we know that the ship is going to sink but what we don't know is that the hero will sacrifices himself to save his great love. You can't compare the two, they are completely different if Titanic took the turn that Revenge of the Sith did then Jack would have thrown Rose out of the life raft and let her die to save himself.

That's a very skewed view of what happened in the prequel series. In fact the legitimate government was subverted by one senator who plotted and created events to discredit the current Supreme Chancellor with the aim to be named as his replacement. Then in that position Palpatine continued to consolidate his power and basically lead a coup to make himself a military dictator. I don't know how you can say that the Old Republic was a theocracy since not everyone was a Jedi and the Jedi were tasked with upholding the law not forcing their own religion on everyone else. A quote from episode 4 "For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic".

I always felt that the original trilogy was a better story (and better written), underdog heroes fighting a massively superior enemy and the story of the rebirth of the Jedi and their fight against the sith. I felt that the prequels on the other hand were poorly written and they didn't mesh properly with the original three movies, there were severe continuity issues. Some of the characters were utterly ridiculous, such as the much reviled (and deservedly so) Jar Jar Binks and we all knew that our heroes and the Republic were going to lose and the Empire was going to be born. Who wants to watch a series of movies where the hero is going to go over to the dark side and the bad guys win, everyone knew essentially what was going to happen and where the story would end.

I realize the average person may say "So what?" to Microsoft raising the price on that particular product because it's targeted at a very specific market that's neither home nor your average business. But as a business practice I would say it's similar to a bank raising the prices of their safe deposit boxes or increasing the fee's on their checking accounts by 30%. It's bad business because the customers will feel you are extorting them and taking advantage of them and it will slow adoption and discourage new customers and make existing customers look for more cost effective alternatives, way better to cut the price by 10% or give other incentives and sell twice at much product and thereby make more revenue than you would have by the price increase alone. Keep in mind there's more than just the up front income from selling the product, some business would also buy software assurance or support contracts so the more of the product you sell the more of these other services you sell as well certainly increasing income in the long run by more than what you would gotten from that obnoxious price increase. It's these kinds of bad decisions that are running Microsoft into the ground.

BTW I'm glad I gave you a good laugh ;-)

Someone else mentioned that, see my reply to that.

I may have read about that at the time it was in the news but I think even if that was only last year that most people don't remember it. Thanks to the movie most people associate "Titanic" with an epic disaster. Also the Titanic has been used so much in movies, TV and liturature i.e. "Raise The Titanic" and even in the 60's series "The Time Tunnel" there was a Titanic episode so a good portion of people on the planet know about the Titanic versus how many people remember the Costa Concordia. I personally think the direction that Microsoft has been going in is nothing short of an epic disaster aka a Titanic epic disaster.

Ok, ok so I should have said side swiped that iceberg :-)

  If I remember correctly from a discovery channel special, the Titanic really sank because there were defective rivets holding the hull plates together but the ship could have survived that hole along the side but the system of compartments that could have prevented the ship from taking on enough water to sink hadn't been finished or wasn't properly installed so that section of the ship couldn't be closed off.

We can only hope.... but you have to admit that it's going to take a mighty big course correction to fix their problems. Things that I personally think have been really bad decisions: Discontinuing technet; raising the price of the data center version of Windows server by 28%; the debacle that was the Surface; the metro interface (at least give people a choice of user interfaces); I mean I could go on for at least a few more paragraphs but those are the most recent things. Also this is a quote from one of my older posts:

However, my main complaint is that Microsoft has not done enough to fix the sluggish performance of Windows on machines that by the standards of ten years ago are practically super computers. When Windows XP on a 3.2Ghz Pentium 4 with 3.2GB of ram and a 500GB Western Digital Black Edition drive is much (much) more responsive than Windows 8 x64 running on a Socket 2011 system with an i7-3820 3.6Ghz cpu with 16GB of ram and a 2TB Western Digital Black Edition drive there's something seriously wrong under the hood.

There was an article here on Slashdot four or five years ago referencing a blog post by a Microsoft Kernel developer (I looked but couldn't find it in order to provide a link) but the blog post essentially said that the Windows kernel was just not written to take advantage of multi-core / hyper-threading enabled cpu's and that the kernel needed a complete overhaul to fix the problem. I also seem to remember that within days the blog post had been taken down, apparently Microsoft doesn't like it's employee's criticizing their products.

Looks like the Captain of the Titanic is fleeing the sinking ship, after he turned the ship right into that iceberg.

Really, I honestly don't care if I live to be 70, 80 or 90 but what I do care about is quality of life. I'd take perfect health, no bad knee, no bad back, no arthritis, no shoulder problems and if that meant I dropped dead by the time I was 75 then so be it and at least I'd be better able to enjoy my life rather than being in endless pain in one way or another.

I really doubt that, if for no other reason than Wil Wheaton is not British and I doubt that he could do a credible British accent.

Please note that I have nothing against Wil Wheaton and if anything I admire him. I've met him and he's a really nice guy and deserves some good rolls.

Exactly, that's why I think he'd be perfect. He's got that sarcastic sense of humor with an air of superiority that he does so well.

I think he'd make an awesome Dr. Who

Loves those cockroaches and fly's, it seems like fly's really are attracted to Zagnut bars.