I would sure like to believe you are correct, but I fear the layperson is much too busy (working to pay bills) to pay attention.

I do some random informal polling amongst the working class, my people, and even the most cerebrally capable lack either the will or the investment of time necessary to understand they're slowly boiling the water we're all in.

I am afraid those of us with inclination will have to speak a little louder to cover for our silent brothers and sisters.

How much time will pass before we get a SCOTUS ruling?

One of the problems with the judicial branch is that the appeals process is generally only limited by the size of one's purse.

Bottomless budgets, like governments and large corporations have at their disposal, make for quite the unlevel playing field.

US $100,000 per plane x how many planes?

I think I could just barely provide a water-tight homing beacon with redundant power sources at, say, a million a dozen.... which leaves room for campaign contributions to secure the contracts.

Depending on what you're streaming (movies and games for the kids in the backseat of the Escalade?) , it would be plausible to use the data limit up fairly quickly.

Unlikely as it may seem, there may be some outfits out there willing to gouge a bit for exceeding plan limitations.

Does it matter as long as they provide sources for the information they add to wikipedia?

Why certainly, otherwise it's merely another unproven assumption.

Not enough profit from the net.

We frequently fall prey to these assumptions made under no particular scientific method. We begin raising our young with lessons disguised as fables.

Handing knowledge down through the years based on personal experience was once, and for many generations, the best way to save information. It is better than no system at all (we're talking pre-widespread literacy), but the risk of passing along stereotypes and prejudices certainly existed.

You could treat all your lost info as if it were a stolen credit card, but the folks capable of hacking the phone and private particulars are statistically unlikely to be grabbing them from folks on the subway.

It's not even necessary to find a black market for them since several well-publicized used phone brokers will purchase late model phones for up to $200 US.

I would hire a credit watch company to eyeball my credit inquiries for a year or two, and even that'll get your card suspended if you enter the wrong info a single time on Amazon, but unless there's reason to suspect foul play just assume a Mexican drug lord is pleased with your lost precious cellie.

Man's hubris is large enough to obscure vision and good judgement.

When we were little more than barely civilized, our insecurities probably collectively led us to this massive overcompensation that skewed our judgement of the other mammals' intelligence.

We are now, he said hopefully, so much beyond that infantile assumption that we may one fine day be caught saying, "You are welcome for the fish."

Now then, at least if they do keep the records longer than 5 years they are in the wrong.

The cynic in me wants to take over this post with a they'll probably do it anyway slant, but it's been a long Monday and I try to leave that guy at work, so I'm going to go with:

Maybe, just maybe, all our bitching is not in vain and the war for the preservation of privacy is still being waged.

Wind kills birds, is an eyesore to some, and is presently only a part-time employee that doesn't always work during peak demand.

Beef cattle are fed grain at the auction lot to fast fatten them for conversion to burgers, but many/most ranchers I know use both coastal and alfalfa hay to supplement what nature provides on the range.