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Well, I guess now we know that this was no weather satellite...

"Highly," huh. Tell me: how much trouble, exactly, would the cops be in if they got caught using this device? :p

Is winter capable of occuring simultaneously across the whole globe?? 'Cause if not, I believe you've answered your own question. ;)

The same can be said for eBay.

Indeed, they certainly could... :p

Ha! Don't you get it?? Laws are meant for you and I, not for huge companies (or the .0001% who control them)... though I imagine that you may've been told differently).

With billions in venture capital funding to play with, it's only a matter of time until Uber gets most of those laws rendered moot - at least the ones that matter, anyway; Uber will obviously have to continue to strategize and pick their battles (Deutschland, for example, probably won't be selling out their taxi industry to Corporate America any time soon). :)

Sony's quality was acceptable enough in the 70's and 80's but had already begun to turn to shit by the time the 90's were underway.

If you wanted very good Japanese electronics, you bought Pioneer or Kenwood. If you wanted damned good, you BOUGHT DENON. :)

The system is stacked against poor people.

Two words: Quit wheat.

Divide... and conquer.

You're 25 years out of date (i.e. we're not talking about your great uncle's ultra-reliable W123 anymore). There's every likelihood that one of these new German diesels (with their myriad failure-prone sensors and crappy wiring harnesses) will have you constantly headed back to the dealership for repairs, at least until the factory warranty runs out.

Um, trees sequester shitloads of hydrocarbons that are hardly re-released to the atmosphere the instant the trees die?

If they didn't, the natural reforestation in Central/South America in the 16th/17th centuries [due to the decimation of indigenous peoples by Spanish conquistadors] wouldn't have resulted in the global cooling-off period that it did...