But it wouldnt happen. If people start using less power, the company will just raise their rates to compensate and actually make more profit. Why would a power company (or any company really) want to save its customers money if it didnt benefit them somehow.

Actually you can most places depending on the circumstances. If the pothole was reported and the city hadnt done anything about it in X number of days they can be held liable depending on local regulations.

I know those words, but that sign makes no sense.

Smart TVs are nice for things like streaming for a secondary TV, in a bedroom or basement, where you dont want a bunch of boxes and cables, but for my living room... i have a cable box, i have a game console, i have a networked dvd player. The TV is ONLY a display. This is one place where with some technologies moving as fast as they are, convergence is a bad thing. If some new streaming service comes out, i can reasonably assume theyll have a PS3 app. Depending on how proprietary things are they may not have an app for a smart TV even a few years old. Heck, i dont even need the main TV in the home theater to have speakers, i just want a big dumb good quality monitor with a digital video input. Let my receiver handle all the AV stuff and one or two boxes handle TV and recorded media.

Convergence has its place, its nice having a camera in my phone in my pocket all the time, but i dont want a cheap, prone to mechanical failure, blu-ray player or cheap PC that no one will make software for in 9 months stuck on the side of my nice high end tv.

Most people have issue with eating GM crops, i certainly dont, i dont think theyre going to damage my health or cause mutations or anything like that (although i'm sure a fringe do).

The issues with GM food come from introducing a laboratory spliced gene into crops out in the wild and the effects of that when it may cross breed. The effects of a gene from a completely unrelated KINGDOM entering the ecosystem could be a lot more drastic than traditionally selectively bred crops. No mater how much cold resistance you breed tomatoes for, theyre not going to get flounder genes in them. Plants that produce their own pesticides? If those crossbred with something wild, we could be killing off helpful insects and collapse entire food chains. We simply can not know the long term ramifications of this.

The other issue is the patenting of genes and all the associated issues of suing farmers when GM crops crossbreed, etc etc.

Monsanto is just a comic book evil corporation, they should just change their name to Lexcorp or Weyland Yutani or something.

Because they could?

Is a miniature Aaron Eckhart and douchey french guy?

'Neither party shall visit the website of the other’s social network and post messages purporting to be the other,'

So they cant send people facebook messages as eachother, but for better or for worse, nowadays facebook is your defacto online presence for most of the internet.

Recent activity -
"_Ex husband_ liked horsefuckers.net [thumbsup.gif]"
"_Ex husband_ liked midgettrannyhookers.com [thumbsup.gif]"

Or less malicious, but possibly more professionally damaging...

"_Ex husband_ liked NORML.org [thumbsup.gif]"

You get the idea. This sort of thing should be handled carefully by a third party. In a bitter divorce, if one party doesnt mind going to jail for contempt of court, you could pretty much ruin someones personal and professional reputation with access to their facebook account. I mean, there have been cases of people coaching their children that the other parent had molested them in attempt to effect divorce proceedings as well as ruin the other party, this sort of thing has the potential to be at least as damaging.

I was looking at the wikipedia page for web search engine and looking at the timeline along the right; i didnt recognize a single one on there after 1999.

We can start measuring internet time in Before Google and After Google i think.

"Preventing drug use is the most cost-effective way to reduce drug use and its consequences in America."

Huh? So preventing drug use reduces drug use?