Transparency. Everything that does, gets, or meet people from government is made public (and with government don't mean just the president, but congressmen, local authorities, counselours, every people that have a direct (or close enough to it) role in any action or decision of the government. If they are your representatives, then you must know what they do, and really why them do that. And that could be kicked, banned from public serving, and even jailed if proved that accepted any sort of bribes or things like that regarding their government work.

You know how marketing works, have this plant, direct from the previous ice age!.if those plants become somewhat popular and get out, i would be worried about our actual ecosystem, Anyway, isnt like something back in the age of dinosaurs or even before. Should not be so big incompatibilities with actual species, and could get back some healty food for us.

If he accept bribes, then he shouldnt be there, Attack that (don't know, instead of keeping voting for them, or by default approving them for not voting, try to pick an alternative or make vocal that no alternative is good), and maybe in not very long time other problems will be solved.

I wish they would sell ANY version of the n950. If i have to choose a replacement for my N900, the N950 would be almost perfect. The N9 is almost there, but will miss the keyboard. And yes, will miss the resistive screen, but there are no available options (the N950 is basically not available anyway).

The other OS for phone that looked interesting was WebOS, in the Touchpad the multitasking was nice, but well, you know, HP managed to do even dumber things than Nokia, and thats something.

Added bonus, whats the worst that can do either of them?

Google could send you (or help others to do so) spam not so easy to ignore.

Government will find a joke you did, meant to be a joke, understood by all the involved parts of the conversation as joke, and still punish you for that.

Now put that to really private conversations. Or any try to warn others about corruption/abuses/mass killings or whatever of people or companies somewhat related with your government. And that the one doing that with your private conversations could not be your government, but US one if you happen to be citizen of any other country.

Weapons don't kill people, the people handling them does. Sometimes could be one friend, or relative, or random joe, that ends kill someone because is not aware of the full consequences (is just pressing a trigger, not actually hitting with their fist to someone), or because the people that picked him to handle that weapon did it because is not someone afraid to use it against other people, or just by mistake.

Now replace weapons with drones, and kill with whatever you could do with one of those drones, including kill. And regarding people handling them, you put all the layers, from politicians and ceos, makers, software designers, hackers that managed to control them or plant something offline (remember stuxnet), and at the end the final user managing it while eating a donut. Is not like we don't have culture on what could be wrong in all those places, 2001, robocop, and the simpsons are just a few examples of what people can do to make all go wrong.

I am not afrad of machines, but are very afraid of the (layers of) humans behind them. A noisy, isolated, with visible identification and visible helicopter is no match for a swarm of drones, remotely controlled by who knows how much people, and with "requisites".

The problem is not particulary google, but their partners, the device makers that close as much as possible their devices to tie them to their services. That you could jailbreak a phone and put a clean android on it is bad for them, and closing the source to avoid that could be a common request to Google.

Ask half of the europeans how banks (mostly US ones) screw their economies. Regarding freedom, wasnt about (specifically) banks, sopa/pipa/etc media corporations (including Sony, btw) sponsored laws hit everywhere... when you can't do a joke in twitter because you can get deported some basic freedoms were lost somewhere.

The problem is the plural. Would be very impractical if everyone lives up to 120 years. But what about you in particular? Ok, maybe not you or me, there are people that are practically swimming in money, what about them? If there are a way to push the limit a few years, they will, even if that goes around bathing in the blood of babies every day.