Forget the whole GMO debate, but how is it even possible that a multi-billion dollar company can threaten to sue a small farmer and then force them to sell out to them when the farmer cannot mount a proper defense. Couldn't you just create a well funded company that would identify small farms and threaten to sue them for anything, forcing them to sell out to you for lower that fair market prices as a part of a settlement? How does that not fall under some Organized Crime law?

Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater.

Why is anyone concerned with Mark's soon to be personal fortune and the taxes that stem from it?

Let me get this straight, you want me to seriously think of a guy who is about to be worth 28 BILLION dollars, who is going to cash in 5 BILLION dollars of it and then get stuck paying 2 BILLION dollars in taxes? Let me note, 500 MILLION of that goes to California, my beloved home state.

We're not talking thousands or millions of dollars, but BILLIONS of dollars. Mark should just be happy he lives in a country and society that he can take a "stupid little idea" like Facebook and turn it into a 100 BILLION dollar company.

For many many generations, the Zuckerburg's Family will be beyond fantastically wealthy. He should just pay it, not sleaze his way out of paying those taxes and be happy he lives somewhere he could make Facebook.

Spot on! I have been learning Xcode 4.2 and it's a joy to use! Objective C is fairly simple and Interface Builder is a snap to use. Why anyone would bother with hand editing XML files is beyond me.

The parent is correct. My postal life can be summed up in:

DMV Notices (2 a year)
Parking Tickets (about 1 a year)
Wedding Invitation (1 every 2 years)
Credit Card reissue (They manage to get stolen from some place every year)
Burning Man tickets (Once a year)
Burning Man paper notices (Twice a year)
Opera tickets (about 3 a year)

My IRA/Retirement people KEEP SENDING ME notices, even though I request they don't. Other than the above, they could do away with the postal system and I would not really notice. Everything can be done in email.

The wife handles Christmas/Birthday cards.

Coast Guard?

Given the sheer number of representative and electoral votes they represent at the federal level, they certainly do get it back in quite a few other ways, no?

Well, according to these guys, http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/show/22685.html, California sends a lot of money to Washington and does not get as much back. I find it ironic that Blue States basically subsidize the Red States.

You never know, that small business in Luxemburg just might transform itself to the largest corporation in the world. I think Apple is just hedging it bets on this one.

Let me first say, I love the App Store, it is where I tell my Wife and Mother to only get their software from. Makes my life ALOT easier.

Personally, I think effort/hassle of forced Sandboxing is not going to bring big dividends in what it prevents. Developers have to now deal with Sandboxing and we know Sandboxing can be defeated. The so called "return on investment" is not there. Next, I think this heads down the path of locking down the MacOS like they do with iOS, which I think would be a horrible mistake. Although, the thought of locking down my Mother's Mac Book does sound nice.

This is stupid. Virus and Trojans are not coming through the App Store. People are installing pirated software that has been infected or purposely contains a trojan. If people stop installing pirated software or being dumb and installing software without questioning it, this problem would go away in the MacOSX space.