I'm really not very good at Japanese, and I remember trying to check my understanding of the news coming out of Japan agaist the BBC.

In my assesment and as far as I recall the BBC reported quite faithfully and very slowly what was happening in Japan.

Not as effective, perhaps, but then again, mayby more alive!

Oh my goodness, because I'm black I have to sit in the back of the bus?

Yes, all the other crap surrounding that is far less severe for Australians, but at heart it's the same issue.

Should we or should we not treat a bunch of bloody transportees with the same diginity as real people?

I don't think so, many of us outside the US are well aware that we are being asked to sit in the back of the bus - because of being you know ... ethnic.

Now, no-one was ever hurt by sitting in the back of the bus, but we're not going to fork over money to corporation that insist on treating us as second rate humans.

What about allowing either of the parties in a lawsuit to claim that the other is atempting to abuse it's monetary clout to 'buy' justice.

If the court agrees, the big player gets to pay the little guys costs along with their own. Even if they win!

You, sir, should watch more Japanese anime.

Clearly, one of the girls in every Japanese shool class is a robot.

It's a no-brainer, really.

Stuff that matters, surely. Certainly not news.

Yes, there's a significant problem here.

The problem is that Google does NOT like free apps. Google make their money from advertizing, and on Google Play they're actively hiding whether are apps paid for by advertizing. This means that FOSS is having a hard time there. And cheap rip-offs of various kinds are having a field day. Once a thriving community of rip-off artists have been gathered bad things(tm) happen (even more).

By the way. Congratulations, the professional anti-Google scaremongers found a semi-reasonable point to criticize. Well done.

And just enough off-center from the real problems not to bother your Corporate Overlords, nice.