From TFA

By Thursday, attention had shifted to some larger names in the tech industry. The day began with complaints over Amazon only paying £2.4m tax in the UK last year. This was despite making sales of £4.3bn and receiving £2.5m in government grants, so effectively Amazon cost the country £100,000 over 2012.

Did she take into account the savings Amazon made to private citizens? Did she take into account reductions in global emissions due to shared delivery trucks?

Do not assume the only thing going on is all government-oriented. Certain factions want you to think that way, but don't. Walmart saves the US consumers over $200 billion per year.

They seized 60 million records of 10 million people because of 1 possible tax cheat? Nice.

To paraphrase a wise man recently, "I don't want to see who's getting slapped on the wrist. I want to see who's going to jail."

Eventually, your kind will attempt to invade with real-world laws. You are part of a giant, hyper organism whose parts, humans, can be directed by data streams that "warm your heart" and "make you feel like a Good Person".

We understand this. You don't.

My dad refused to pay for touch tone in the US, and he had his ancient, black Bakelite indestructible phone upstairs for decades. It was idiotic for the phone company, which had long since converted to computers for both signal types. But they wanted to charge for the "premium" touch tone.

As for this, the company claims it's required nationwide by regulation. Fair enough. Show the money went for 911 elsewhere, and not oopsidentally into your pocket.

Roger Ebert lamented that this, and James Bond, had turned into action movies lead by action heroes.

It doesn't make them bad movies -- they are pretty good on their own terms. They're just...different.

Have they ruled out dogs peeing, kids peeing, asses with an axe to grind peeing, copper or other poisons in the pot, or other assholery? More likely than experimental error or bias in dirt or planting or seed selection.

Does the router bloe hot air?

I misspelled blow, but I think I stumbled across a funnier spelling, so I'm leaving it.

Yes, I do believe that was his sarcastic point.

> a dozen people

At a cost of (more per person than those people will spend on phone, Internet, and cable TV in their lifetimes), no doubt.

I don't know how my phone thought a misspelling of "person" should be corrected into esystem. I'm turning spell correction off now.

> When the system allows a single individual to amass such
> wealth into his own hands something is wrong with the system.Â

We have tons of evidence that forbidding this leads to measurable declines in the health and wealth of the average eystem. I's been tried and found mass murderous in its application.

Your feeling is abused by the same people you rage against -- the powerful -- to get you behind them in their bid to take power from other people.

If you were brighter, you'd realize this instead of being a meme-driven cog in their power hunger, which, as noted, leads to measurably worse outcomes for the "common man" you purport to care for.

You understand that, in this 1950s movie, you play the role of arrogant know-it-all who gets eaten, screaming as you lean back and the camera jams your face, don't you?

"as these new HiRISE observations show, the devilish vorticies can carve beautiful patterns in the Martian dust."

I suppose they're beautiful the same way David Spade's hairdoo is beautiful.

The purpose of government throughout all human history, and most nations currently, is to allow the power-hungry a method to increase their power using the legal monopoly on offensive force by government.

This example, one of many, shows those "few modern" governments that don't do this...do.

Highway robbery, rent-seeking in exchange for money, rent-seeking in exchange for votes, this is the norm, not the exception.

Of course it's technically feasible. Migrate a delete command through their system woth the video ID, CRC signature, whatever.

Also the taxi driver is still looking for his deadbeat.

He "posessed images of child abuse". Perhaps this redshirt was the monster.