What is the federal government going to do? Probably nothing... unless you do something stupid like expose its war crimes. [See: Manning, Bradley] What might one employee in the federal government whom you pissed off do with a record of all your web searches? Use your imagination.

"Please help us not look like your bitch."

... that "Firefox" menu is like a Cheetos-dust-coated thumb in my eye. Man, I'm never going back.

... that their justification for getting rid of the Start menu in the first place - "No one uses it" - was a self-serving lie?

Microsoft told me so when explaining why they got rid of it! Why would they bring back something no one uses? I'm all confused now!

After brazening it out for a few days, the CEO admitted, "OK, yeah, we fucked this up." You think Ballmer will have the class to do the same? We'll get corporate mealy-mouthing about "improvements" that shirk his culpability for one of the biggest (and most predictable) fiascos in PC history.

I personally can't tell the difference between V0 mp3 and FLAC. But I'll still spend the download time and storage space on FLAC just because it gives me a warm feeling to know that I'm getting all the bits. An irrational pleasure is still a pleasure.

If Google couldn't find a way to wring enough greenbacks out of Reader, what chance does this have?

"Sacrifice players' freedom"... As one person put it, given that SC is presented as a "toy", EA seems pretty damned determined to limit the ways you can play with it.

The "We must use the cloud to provide you with all the mathification going on!" claim is also weakened by the oppressively narrow limits on city size.

Never see another Ridley Scott science fiction movie again.