No the problem is the government does "make money" and in doing so steals the wealth of everyone.

Why do our safety needs to keep up. We have more safety net than at any prior time in history. Instead of treating the symptom maybe we should tackle the problem. Before 1970 very few households were two income. So somehow with ~40 hours of labor invested outside the home a comfortable standard of living could be maintained. Now days that otherwise comparable family in terms of living standard, education, etc, has to have two people working putting in a total of ~80+ hours outside the home; all while worker productivity has supposedly increased.

You will never fix this with higher minimum wages laws, that is just inflationary. The very fundamental problem is there is to much labor available. If you want to fix it you raise the cost, not dollar value, of labor. What we should do is adopt (preferable non gender biased) policies that strongly encourage single income households, and dare I say strongly discourage the import of finished goods except for nations that are vary similar to our own in terms of cost of labor.

All of the weight of guilt falls upon the criminal. For example if you fail to lock up your bicycle and it is stolen the thief is not less guilty. And if i put it all over youtube that you never lock up your bicycle the thief still bears all of the guilt.

So to make sure I understand you correctly. What you are saying is Obama and his management of financial regulations is so pathetic, and shamefully corrupt; your only option is to compare his actions to other hypothetical time lines to make him look better. Got it.

I'd say ATT published it when they made it available online via webserver with no effective authentication around it.

President Lincoln faced an entirely different situation. The nature of the Civil War put the existence of the nation at great risk. Current conflicts pose almost no risk at all of a calamity great enough to destroy our nation. Next the telegraph wires were the only way to quickly command attacks from troops over a distance. It was also the only fast way to send information out of the north to southern agents. The northern forces would probably have been better off if all telegraphs were locked down until the war was over.
                              In the current world situation the US might be better to pull out all troops and embassies and tell the Arab region to rot. I wonder if the US would suffer at all if the nations in the mid east simply went into total war and chaos. As it stands now the expense of stopping this foolishness is a burden. As far as wars go this war has not taken many of our soldiers' lives. But if we assume that the ultimate totals might come to 20,000 dead American troops why should we be willing to allow this risk to climb? The entire mess very much resembles the problem in Vietnam. We could have won that war with great ease by going to maximum technology on the first day. We would have suffered no loss of troops at all and the financial component would have been trivial. Huge numbers of innocents would have been killed but at least it would all be over in a few minutes. So our kinder gentler mode of war cost the lives of 50,000 US soldiers and billions of dollars. The other part of the issue is that if we had crushed Vietnam with a full technology attack I seriously doubt that the Arab nations would ever have dared to offend us. Many nations perceive a lack of violent aggression to be a signal of weakness. Look at the threats made by N. Korea today. N.Korea threatens simply because they know we will not bomb them into oblivion.

It is a complex problem. As we now have very large populations, some of which have technology in the hands of citizens, and are more sophisticated, the need to know becomes more vital. It is like living in a high rise apartment. You need to know a bit about people in the building for everyone's sake. So governments as well as companies and individuals find more and more innocent reasons to study us and much of it is to our benefit. That leaves people with bad intentions a way to do harm. So far the good outweighs the bad. But for how long?

The catch is that they may not bother with red flags. You might suddenly discover that you are very, very ill with a limited time left. You'll never know the how or why of the illness. Or maybe you'll discover that you committed a crime that you have no memory of and that you suddenly get free housing for life. Those secret prisons we have in remote nations sometimes get new inmates. If a government gets nasty it can be severely nasty.

Unlikely, if they did that they would have to have a whole set of NEtflix only discs pressed, and another set for Redbox, and another set for whoever else might offer a similar service.

Much easier to make 100k discs of the same type; than 10k of this one, 15k of this one, 5k of this one.

Exactly... OP does not know his history.

Steam existed since 2004 and had little to no discounts, other then what we had seen previously. Then in 2008 Direct2Drive was started to get some traction and their sales being reported on; suddenly in Dec of that same year Steam has it's first Steam Sale.

After a few years of this Amazon soon started having their sales too; and now it's SOP for all the shops.

Now I'm curious too, never heard of these ads showing up.

If I leave it on the default the art for the game will show up in the background; but that's hardly an ad.

57 was fermented whale semen (that's why it was green). Whatever floats your umm....algae, I guess.

We do know that England controlled and possessed the coastal areas of France for several hundred years. Later we see Normandy become a separate entity and invade England. One way to conceive of it would be to consider the Norman invasion as part of a civil war. The resolution of the long time conflict was England suffering loss of coastal Europe. Considering the modern history of Europe a loss of territory in coastal Europe might be considered a blessing.

yeah, in your imagination maybe. You can troll better than that. Remind me what nexus devices come with "Advertising widgets"? the play books app and/or play magazines app are not advertising widgets, they are functional.

Flawed they may be but the poit is to set the ground rules so people know what to do and have something to look to when things get crazy and emotion runs high. Frankly I agree with the parent, the fact that Egypt can't ride it out until the next election and then replace Morsi having learned a lesson about electing theocrats, suggests to me the nation is unlikely to develop the spine it takes to have a democracy and keep it.

This does not bode well for a free Egypt. Whenever things get wierd form now on the military will just take over.

our state department is doing nothing because they in their usual sort sightedness jus don't want anyone unpredictable near Isreal.