That's what happens when a company sells its soul for buck. Google didn't. As I see, there are 2 evils, which companies tend to sell their souls just to be there: Facebook and China.

I didn't like the blunt nose of the original "Harrier", so I designed "Sharp-nosed paper airplane", here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_8EbzUyBqY -- try it out.

Exactly. Looking at the hacking capabilities of Chinese government, it is likely that the US government was infiltrated by cunning Chinese ideas.

people will be publishing their IDs and passwords for everybody, and streaming encoded information through whoever's ID they like... and maybe we could even try that ontop of Facebook.

You would have to violate human rights to forbid to using it.

Chinese govt is overly inclined to pursuit of the prosperity of Chinese nation, and ignores the importance of the prosperity of the world as a whole.

Titled "Chinese Characters: Learn & Remember 2,178 Characters", by Alan Hoenig, and yes, I use memorization software both SuperMemo and Anki, yet I still recommend this wonderful book. It gets you on the right track by offering the characters in the order of increasing graphical complexity, in a way that nearly each following character can be constructed from the preceding characters as its building blocks,... and it does so by providing sufficiently short yet effective mnemonics.

1. Make him or her like a challenging game.
2. Show that he or she can win by changing the game from the inside

At least, this is what happened to me when I was 11, playing games that were written in BASIC.

People will be less concerned to be bad things, under their name. It is more civilized anyway. I like it. Eventually, it may be a simple way to completely avoid unsolicited mail.