They do exist, but it's hard to imagine them ever being credible in a world where the NRA draws away all the attention.

If they ever manage to offer me range insurance and my nearby ranges accept it, I'll drop the NRA and donate to them in a second. That's the only reason I'm an NRA member anyway, because I don't really believe they're there to do anything other than sell me shit and tell me lies.

Yes, the whole idea is that they're stealing the money from the taxpayer. From THEIR standpoint they're making money; they're getting more of the nation's wealth, giving them control over more aspects of your life.

They don't have that much power. Nobody does. But they can make life hard for people who use it in public situations.

Everyone can use it. Some of us have to use it a bit differently. You can use it for illustrative purposes only. I'm fucking over saying "The N Word". On the other hand, I'm sure not fucking calling anyone nigger, not even obliquely.

Honestly, the TLD system has been broken for a long time. There should probably never have been TLDs without country codes, for one thing. And enforcement on TLDs that were supposed to be reserved for specific purposes was always lousy -- I remember seeing clearly commercial sites with .net TLDs popping up in the mid-90's.

Microsoft should be perfectly happy with their ownership of .crash, .virus, and .bsod.

CIPS really stands for Child Internet Porn Society. They're clearly a bunch of pedophiles, because otherwise, why would they be trying in any way to limit efforts to PROTECT THE CHIIILDREN?!?

Since this has been a total victory for Google, they will likely get a fair amount of legal fees back. So the real point is that Oracle should have played ball with Google. They're greed cost them not only the case but also the presence of Java on the Android ecosystem.

As to whether Dalvim damages Java, I could care less. Let the two forks compete and may the best one win.

Oh and you're a fucking idiot.

The ipad data plan is data only. and you can take that sim and put it in a iPhone and use it data only.

Did the AT&T guy even know what his company offers?

I have a couple old Garmin GPS 12 devices for when I need a GPS for hiking etc. But any typical Garmin GPS device that the typical person will own today is a PDA running an app and getting 2-3 hours of battery life. (I have one of those too, since it serves a different need.)

I think the difference here is national. Google is all up in your streetz mapping your wifiz and knows what is where to a high level of detail... in the USA. In various European countries which value public privacy more than we do, the data is going to be inferior.