http://www.opec.org/opec_web/en/

Parent post definitely deserves more than 1 rating.

I have watched it. Not only do they have Discovery, National Geo and so on in Dutch, but are pretty good at English and often German, so they don't really need Dutch Broadcast to watch TV.

ebay.nl sigh. Exactly how is it "better", eh? Not meeting new people.Not helping anyone. Paying atrocious fees to ebay + paypal. Getting scammed.

Nobody forces you to buy gasoline either. You can ride a bike, use public transport, walk.
So why don't we allow these guys to have pricing similar to that of Hollywood? Say, 15$ per gallon.
And then they can come with "improved" Blu-bahda-buhm 3D version of the gasoline, for mere 25$ per gallon.

And if someone figures out how to create cars that won't need to re-fuel, they'll send us virtual gasoline, you know, some nice code that would be required for your car to drive. Copying that code would be breaking the law.

Wouldn't it be right in your books?

PS
The producer who's rights on product by someone who is dead for decades (Elvis) can choose to kindly ask some politicians to increase "copyright protection" from 50 years, to 100 years. But nobody forces you to buy his disks, eh?

"Google announced that WiFi data collected in the Netherlands will be deleted. This move is being made at the behest of the Dutch Data Protection Authority, who gave an order earlier this year that all WiFi data was to be deleted." http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/04/29/2229225/report-finds-google-supervisors-knew-about-wi-fi-data-harvesting And one more thing, lets not mix "google claims it had no intent to use that data" and "google had no intent to use that data" please.

It's very said when post claiming Google has 60% of the market (in reality they are over 90%) gets modded up as "informative". Friend of mine, working at myvideo.de, complained about Google dumping youtube ads prices. And I'm not buying "we've "unintentionally" captured terrabytes and terrabytes of Wi-Fi traffic", sorry. In other words, they seem to be much less evil than Apple/Microsoft, but they are definitely not saints.

I couldn't care less about nitpicking about how they store it internally. What is a real problem though, that after I buy something using it (from my PC, mind you), 3rd party programs on my Samsung Galaxy Tab suddenly gain rights to charge me, WITHOUT ASKING my password! (brilliant idea, dear Google) Bum, and you've just purchased non-refundable "5000 Happy Stars" for "Sheeps & Clouds" game for mere 7.99 Euro. How on Earth, after the story with Apple losing the case for remembering password for 15 minutes (!!!), could Google decide that remembering it forever is a good idea, is beyond me.

FUD in its finest. 1) We are talking about US market, where Apple had about 25% of the market (vs about 15% worldwide) before 4S launch and Google was 50%+ 2) There is NO way you can go from 25% to 45% during one quarter in a mature market. Roughly every second android SOLD during that quarter IN US might have been iPhone, yes. 3) In Q4 Apple sold about 37 million smartphones, when Samsung sold about 35 million. Samsung alone is about 24% of the smartphone market Worldwide.

So 30 years ago we couldn't spare a penny to buy stuff, eh? Oh wait, we actually could.