Well, I'll use this as a reason to never, ever, ever buy a Renault car, ever.

I don't just mean this car. I mean any car of theirs.

I think Snowden as a tool is about the picture that I'm getting too.

He's a very foolish young man, and he's totally fucking ruined his life and now is trying to regain some credibility. But the sad fact is, he's also betraying his country. I do not see anything noble in what he's done: I knew everything he was saying before he said it. All he's done is pull a great big LOOOK AT MEEEEEEEE and run streaking across the public square.

The implied equivalence between speech and money always bothered me

That's because it is a phony equivalence meant to enable a wealthy few to dominate the conversation of politics.

In other words, it's a god-damn dirty lie.

IT departments usually can only ask for money. If the business isn't concerned about april 2014, we can't make them get excited.

I find the people going "XP or nothing" are usually not very savvy with the tech. They're just lazy and hyper-conservative, and fear change and what they don't understand.

He continually says he "meant" for certain things to happen

I take that that he meant the story to turn into a turgid, cheap soap opera.

You should talk to Doctors

LOL. You should talk to whole sections of the healthcare industry if you want to know the true opinion of Medicare. I'll let you in on a secret, though: without it, there's no FUCKING healthcare industry at all. At least not one revolving around long-term care. You do want to die with some dignity, don't you?

Because sans medicare, you'd best start picking out what goddamn ice floe you want to die on.

Just before you get that big phat right-wing cock too far down your throat, I'll warn you that you're gonna choke on it.

Lest you forget, Obamacare is a Democrat invention. Lock, Stock, and Barrel

God, did mental retardation take a sudden spike over the last few weeks? There's some powerful fukin' STUPID folks clogging up the intertoobz these days.

I think it is fascinating how everyone's suddenly a fucking expert on web design these days.

It's kind of a relief to know that pretty soon China's economic model will evaporate once 3d printing becomes consumerized.

At least, the part where cheap labor is mercilessly exploited in an inhuman fashion by lazy, worthless douchebags.

Except nobody is saying "it was the NSA".

Yes, it's almost a text-book example of a strawman argument. Someone most certainly did break into this CVS system and someone almost certainly did insert a backdoor. Not sure who it is, but of course the NSA have been pretty much admitting that they've been spying on everything we do, so it is also not really conspiratorial or hysterical to presume that they or someone like them might be pulling crap like this. However, anything unsettling that can be marked as a conspiracy immediately is, to delegitimize criticism and complaints.

Anybody who can't put down their Facebook feeds for a few minutes during takeoff/landing doesn't deserve to fly anyway.

Based on what? Your personal estimation of how important their time is? Based on your priorities of what is or is not important?

Sometimes people's astounding high-handed arrogance just boggles my mind. Who the fuck do you think you are?

More than one. How many people absent-mindedly carry a GUN to the airport? Now imagine how many people ignore or defy the order to shut off the phone, just because.

I'm sure in the last decade every plane in the sky has carried at least 3-4 fully activated, broadcasting devices onboard, and in the last 5 years it's probably more like 10-15. These things are everywhere in our lives now.

Long long time ago. Do you actually think all airline passengers obediently turn off their devices? Many of them simply tuck it away where it can't be seen.

It has EVERYTHING to do with an authoritarian mind-set that when you get on the plane, you will behave as you are told or get a jelly finger up the ass.

If all these gizmos could crash a plane, help me understand how no plane crash has ever been attributed to one because I assure you, many passengers merely slip their cellphones into a pocket and don't bother turning them off at all.