So, if I just so happen to strike up a conversation with one of my daughter's friends, then I'm a criminal??? I'm not Canadian, but what if that were the case, would planning, say, a surprise party, on a sneaky basis (hey, its a surprise party!!) be a criminal offense?? I doubt it would hold up in any court.

I wonder when the U.N. is going to try to make You Tube take down that video??

Its bad enough that this bozo is trying to sue them for not accommodating the blind in an arena that requires fairly acute visual ability and skills. But, is our justice system going to let this one even get to first base? Let's just hope that the judge involved isn't another moron and doesn't make Sony provide 'special' giant screens for the visually impaired. It seems that these day if someone has a handicap of some kind, they think that they're entitled to special treatment. Blow me. If I don't want to provide a ramp into my private business, I don't have to. I'm not the only one in town and some places of business (manufacturing) are really no place for a bunch of cripples, anyway, much less the blind. Sony is fighting the 'entitlement' mindset. I hope they sock it to him right between the eyes with a baseball bat. Probably won't hurt his outlook...

The get sued for not providing a fiberoptic system. The lawsuit prompts them to put one in to cover their butts, while not allowing the municipality to go forward with a publicly voted referendum to have a 'city system'. Sounds lop sided to me. THEN they have the cahunas to sue the city for trying to put in their own system? Bull! Sounds like a fair market competition to me. The city profits the same as a telcom would. Sounds also like the telcom is about to have a real rough time getting permits to do anything, much less put in fiberoptics. It'll make their costs go up and the city's alternative look better. Somebody here said something about 'shooting themselves in the foot'? Nailed it.

It happens in reality: The Russians have stormed places where hostages are being held and unfortunately there were civilian casualties. They aren't the only ones, either. If a member of my family were part of a hostage group, I wouldn't care if I took out a bystander to save them. On another note, how can anyone who has enough bloodlust to play a 'shooter' game be so concerned about the targets around them? If they're going to be so freaking PC about it, then they may as well go all the way and try to ban it from existence as they watch the news each day and see it happening in real life anyway. Almost hypocritical, isn't it? Waaaaahhhh! They need to cry somewhere else.

I seriously hope this one passes. I used to work on my cars when I was much younger and saved a bundle of money by being able to do so. The computer systems are not all that bad, but then, I can't see how they are that much of a help, either. Emissions? Yes, they do well, but I got as good emissions on cars with a good tune up and an added compressor on the intake. Horsepower went up and so did gas consumption. Tuning it back down to a leaner mix and such got it back to the original 'specs' with improved mileage and emissions. In any event, the manufacturers are screwing over the public by not allowing them to take charge of their cars that they paid a king's ransom for. Let's see how the 'new' corporations do this. Hell, their dealers could practically eliminate the repair service and sell parts like they sell cars. I think its called 'selling'. If their cars are as good as they would like you to think they are, then when you need a part, buy theirs, they would have to be much better than the third party manufacturers'.

Touch doesn't make any sense unless you have no room for a mouse or keyboard. We have a touch interface on the computer systems that we put together for our medical device at work. It was originally supposed to make room in the limited spaces that hospitals have for all the devices that they use. Turns out that upon revisiting them for preventive maintenance, they have been using the keyboard and mouse that were provided for the maintenance tech. So, the ease of a touch interface isn't as easy as you would think. Quite frankly, the icons and categories that Windows Vista uses are way too abstract and are not intuitive. Going toward a touch system that would require this kind of interface is destructive and a big step backward. The future plans of our systems are to eliminate the touch screen altogether and make the interface more Windows 'conventional'. Another thing is that the touch screen phones, at least to me, are a pain in the ass. I couldn't even get used to the stupid Ipod style ring on one of the phones I owned. Of course, I don't use a phone like a personal assistant and wouldn't be lost if it were to be misplaced, I keep my life in the real world, not in the electronic world. Just a thought, though... all I really need is XP on a computer, a phone with a contact list and camera, with nothing else, and obviously no touch screen. Sheez, even the intro crap when you turn on/off the phone is really annoying...

I can't see how anything MicroSoft puts out there could rival either Yahoo or Google. They don't really have the best of anything, the dominate by the 'deluge' factor. All the 'Live' stuff that's forced on you through MicroSoft Products has already existed at Google or somewhere else and MicroSoft being the Borg Monopoly it is, is just trying to break down the door in an area that most of us really don't want to see their footprints. Stick to the software you used to make exclusively, guys! They're so spread out now that any innovation from a competitor may not pull the rug out from under them, but it can jerk them around.