then they have nothing to hide.

So what are they doing wrong?

What makes you think that wasn't the goal from the beginning?

that's why.

1. Don't use Google Drive. Who's forcing you to?
2. Why not go with Dropbox? Oh, right, they can do the same crawling through your data.
3. Finally, uhm.. Thought about encrypting with TrueCrypt and uploading the entire encrypted file?

Ahh, but why think proactively about security on a free service but useful service when it's much easier to complain and bitch.

that people still can't put pieces together to paint a fuller picture of the deliberate transformation happening in their countries, and a great change to the way of life that's coming especially to the western world.

Bought an iPhone for my wife ~ 2 months ago. Set it up without a PC (the newly advertised feature of iOS 5). Obviously created a new Apple ID. She also has been using iTunes on her laptop for a while, and imported some music from some of our CDs. That iTunes has not been linked to an Apple ID.

Now, we decided to sync her address book from an old Nokia phone via Windows' Address book to her iPhone. Naturally, I also wanted her new iPhone to also work with her iTunes library. Can't do it. It cannot combine her iTunes library and link it with the iCloud. The iPhone had to be erased (not apps, but all iTunes stuff), and re-synced with the PC.

If she bought any albums via iTunes on her phone, it would've been a nightmare. Once again, iTunes is a complicated piece of crap. It is so freaking complicated to figure all the sync to PC/iCloud settings out that it's not the "Apple way".

Google doens't "forget" to do anything. They're not high school CS students.

on Canada Post website. What's the problem?

Really, blame science and scientists. There are FAR, FAR more serious problems to worry about than CO2. Why are we jumping on the bandwagon of excessive CO2 emissions, while ignoring a lot more immediate and deadly dangers?

When there are "scientific" opinions released in the wake of Fukushima that radiation is good for you...

When dosages of "permissible" radiation are adjusted to be significantly higher...

When each industrial heavy pollutant is counteracted with "scientific" studies that the pollutant is not proven to cause damage, and it's all in people's heads who are out to get the corporation...

When our water supply is "medicated" because of countless drug prescriptions that seep back into the water supply...

When "science" is attempting to regulate emissions of private vehicles, but completely ignores pollution from commercial shipping...

When "science" says we need to install fart bags into cows, stop eating meat, but doesn't give a hoot about hundreds of tons of antibiotics that are fed into livestock (and which propagate into our bodies)...

When "science" lobbies to remove labeling of GMO foods... (think about this one: for whose benefit is it?)

Who, then, trusts this "science"? People are not as dumb as you think, and science hasn't made a good name for itself. Science, as used by politicians and corporations, is becoming more and more clear as a lie, as propaganda to manipulate people's thinking, however not for the altruistic intentions, but for the benefit of a few.

I want unbiased science, one that doesn't call for a solution from provider X where billions of dollars will be channeled.

[ Similarly, the statement "we don't need you to do that" is a friendly way of saying "don't do it." ]

911 dispatchers are trained to give orders. They are trained to deal with people in various excited emotional states, and their job is to convey instructions as clearly and loudly as is necessary. "Sir, STOP DOING THAT. DO YOU UNDERSTAND? STOP FOLLOWING THE SUSPECT AND WAIT FOR THE ARRIVAL OF THE POLICE".

See how much more effective that is? If you listen to various recordings of 911 calls, you will know that's the language they know how to use and are trained for. This "you don't need to do that" does not convey a directive.

P.S. I'm responding to your comment, not the entire case, by the way.