A] You didn't understand what he was saying : he meant there isn't any OFFLINE Solo mod like in D2. See in D2 you had 4 ways to play the game : offline solo, LAN, Open BNET, and Closed BNET.
The actual Online experience was Closed Bnet, where you had to start dedicated characters for online playing, and the characters were not hosted on your computer so you couldn't temper with them, althought cheating was indeed quite endemic, but I never saw it as a problem.
Now in D3 you will have 1 & half way to play : Online multi and some sort of mutant solo/online shit mode who's only purpose is that I don't cheat in solo and that people can see my achievements !
Well I ask you WHAT THE FUCK do I care if 12 years old see my achievements or if other people use cheats on their solo mode ? I didn't pay $60 to wank on my facebook about what level I am and what mode I finished, I pay to have fun, play a great game, and be able to do so whenever I please, even if I don't have internet connection. SO Yes there is a big difference between solo in D2 and in D3 : Solo in D2 >>> Solo in D3.
B] if you think it's harder to defeat the Uber Tristram Boss on closed Bnet than it is to actually finish the game in Hell mode in solo than you never played D2
C] If you've never played D2 I don't think you must speak here, also I stopped regarding you as a valid human being 1 line ago.

NO !
Single Player in D3 isn't the same as in D2 you 12 years old freaking n00b : That's the WHOLE POINT ! ... Hum... sorry.
We want Blizzard (actually we beg) to MAKE it like D2 and war3, because it was the best online/offline experience ever.
In D2 you have an OFFLINE Solo mode, then open bnet and then closed bnet. The only rationale for getting rid of the first two is to "limit piracy", which not only is in itself a stupid statement, because it of course won't, but also is a acknowledgement from Blizzard that they will actually procure a more crappy experience to their fanbase on purpose (the one that FUCKING brought you here Blizzard : HELLO ? Spent maybe $1000 on your games in the last 15 years ! Thanks for becoming such douchebags)
And Yes I played SC2, Yes it's a great game, and yes I bought it, but NO F*CK NO it isn't in any way shape or form a bonus or a feature that Lan is gone, it's a freaking shame !

Can you actually read ?
He said foreign "researchers". Yes these are american companies. And how many american researchers do they have ?

True. But the reason why these people emmigrated to the US to do R&D in american companies is because the pay is better and this condition hasn't changed.
Or rather hasn't changed enough yet. I don't think there is any Chinese company who can rival IBM's R&D, or Intel's.

"democratically elected politicains are passing laws"
There is so much wrong in this statement. where to begin ?
First of all I'd like the democratically elected politicians to MAKE the laws instead of passing laws redacted by lobbyist, and private interests groups, and passing only the ones they get paid to pass.
Secondly The average congressman gets 5 TIMES its salary from Lobbyist and private corporations. That's right : the average Senator is 5 times more Goldman Sach's bitch than yours. So please keep your condescending horseshit. Democracy is a very nice ideal but the USA are FAR from ever achieving it.

Not at all.
He is suggesting quite the opposite : 94% of the population doesn't care UNTIL there is a civil war. Once there is they side with the strongest a.k.a the government because they are lazy cowards and also because they've not given a shit about anything for so long that they are physically unable to make their mind about anything.

Don't get me wrong I'm not a revolutionary and I know fanatism is bad. Really bad. But Fanatism on its own cannot do that much arm because by definition it is held by few people. It is the apathy of the great majority that enables this fanatism to become a threat.
My point being you can't really fight fanatism by reason, so better try to tackle apathy.

Yes I totally agree with you. Don't demonize, it's counterproductive.
I was only objecting to your argument that he could not possibly have said something so shockingly anti-democratic. The fact is that Nazi Germany propaganda was very fiercely anti-democratic, democracy held the same role in their propaganda as Communism during the MacCarthy era in the USA (and still today in the discourses of the right).
So it is possible that he said that. or not.

No, but demand accountability, make this a major issue debated, demand the creation of independant bodies to oversee the use of the datas, and more importantly demand laws that prevent the private companies to harvest the data in the first place, because today the number 1 source of information regarding dissidents in countries with authoritarian regimes like Yemen, Syria, and before Lybia and such, are Facebook, Google & telephone companies.

Are you actually angry because you cannot buy sufficient fire power to outpower the entire US military ?
Because if so I need your name and address please. First I'll send a psychiatrist, and 2nd I'll make sure to get at least a Thousand miles away from you !
I mean you do realize that :
A] The right to bear arms was never intended for citizen to be able to fight off policemen or the military, but because it would facilitate the formation of militia to DEFEND THE STATE NOT FIGHT IT.
B] The concept of a state of rights and law, of government and democracy finds its most primary root in the concession made by the people to the government of the monopoly of righteous violence.
Read Thomas Hobbes, or even better Max Weber.

Your point being that Goebbels is in no way a villain in a movie ?
I mean the guy's job was basically to sell the systematic extermination of Jews, gypsies, gays, lesbians, mentally retarded and physically challenged, you would think he was ok with saying more chocking things than "the truth is the greatest enemy of the State", especially in a private context.
That being said I wasn't there so I can't testify.
Coincidentally , in Mein Kampf, Hithler has a rant about "the jews' big lies" which is very similar to the quotation above, so maybe it was indeed forged. History is written by the winners after all.

can you access/record/store hundreds of thousands of Terabytes of CCTV, telephone communications, SMS, chat, emails?
Can you as a citizen, pay thousands of people to retroactively investigate on the life of other citizen ?
How are citizen more empowered by big browser than governments ?
As some dude said someday on the interwebs : "Staline would have LOVED facebook". And I might add, no jews would have survived the holocaust if it had taken place in Y2K.

Everything you buy, any dollar (or Yuan or Euro or Pound) you spend today is a vote.
It is an endorsement of the choices (all of them) of the company/artist/whatver you are buying from made. It's true of the Nike Shoes manufactured by 8 years old malaysians you bought in the 90s and it is true now of the DRM music ou movies you buy online, of the kindle you payed amazon for, of your iPod.
I think what pirates do when they do buy something is demonstrate this. They say this is good stuff, nicely made and rightly sold. I agree with the way it was manufactured and marketed and I don't take offense in the way the vendor is making money.
This is why I won't buy a kindle (or any ereader) as long as there is a kill switch in it for instance. It's not that I think ebooks are bad, or not as good as paper books, they actually are better I think. Cheaper and easier to distribute for one, and lighter to carry. But I will never endorse the idea that it is OK for amazon to be ABLE to delete a book from my collection. The same way I don't think it would be OK for amazon to come to my house and burn a book I just bought.
Private corporations have fought very hard against piracy saying that when you download a pirated ebook or mp3 you STEAL, that it is actually theft, well if it is theft, and the ebook is an actual good, then deleting it from my computer/ereader is exactly the same as coming to my house to burn it, and locking it with DRM is exactly the same as forcibly preventing me physically to lend it to a friend or to give/resell it.
Nobody (sane) would EVER take the crap that some (all the big ones) digital publisher gives us with physical goods.
I simply ask : WHY ?
And yes I veered off topic. it's the mention of DRMs (or in that case the absence thereof) it pushes my button.

Just because a question was asked doesn't mean it was the right one, or even a smart one to start with. We should never stop reformulating the question, it is most of the time much more interesting the trying to find "the answer" to a bad question.

I agree 100%. a MBA is a $999 netbook. a netbook can be (poorly) replaced by a tablet+keyboard. where is the news ?

My thought exactly !
The guy FTFY just replaced its $1199-facebook-machine by a $599(iPad)+$99(Keyboard)-facebook machine and apparently he wants a medal for it...
If you do NOTHING on your computer, then of course you can swap it for a Tablet+keyboard. It will be less robust, slower, and you'll be limited to the App store but hey what the hell that's the price of hype !

Tablets are nice, but if they become your primary computer, it means you never needed a PC in the first place, a $299 netbook would have done the trick, much better than a tablet BTW.