Face it. This is no longer a country of laws. The powers that be do what they want, how they want, whenever they want. Get used to it.

How stupid do you have to be to give these idiots money?

So sick of this headline science shit. "New Discovery That May Cure Cancer". "New Discovery That May Cure Parkinson's". "New Discovery That May Cure Alzheimers". Blah blah fucking blah. Come back when you actually do something.

The saddest part about your personal information--your privacy--being bought and sold by third parties is that it is not, actually, worth very much. The way corporations like Google or Facebook make it worthwhile is they sell TENS OF MILLIONS of potential customers at a time. Even if one did take control of the market for their own personal info how much do you think you could make? A few cents a transaction maybe? A couple of bucks tops if you're in a really coveted demographic? The true amount is probably a fraction of a fraction of cent. Worth it?

This is true for most professions today in the U.S.. When the U.S. exported its manufacturing industry, vaporizing millions of well-paying blue collar jobs in the U.S., the middle class was told that these jobs would be replaced by even higher paying white collar or "creative" jobs for everyone--you just had to educate yourself. Well, people listened, and they educated themselves, and now they're finding out that they were sold a big fat bucket of bullshit. Just ask any recent law grad, or architecture grad, or marketing grad, or, yeah, bio-med grad. There just aren't enough of these professional jobs to replace the ones we've lost. There never was and there never will be.

Let's ban thunder and lightning as well, because this also scares the bejeezus out of animals. Hell, while we're at it, let's also ban predators, because NOTHING scares an animal more than being lunch. Fact is, most wild animals live in a perpetual state of horror. That's why they run away whenever you try to pet them.

Is this not the same Congress that just passed CISPA? Does anyone think this is some great victory?

MRSA is a direct product of our total war on all bacteria. Most people who become infected with MRSA were exposed to it in a hospital. Hospitals have basically become ultra-efficient incubators for MRSA.

And no matter what kind of lock you place on your house's door a sledgehammer will probably knock it down pretty easily. So what's your point exactly?

So now state-provided, state-mandated education is capitalism?

Get your shit together. This is sounding more and more like a fly by night operation every day.

Stand-up meetings make big, tall people look big, and short, small people( women included) look small. In sit-down meetings everyone is the same size, more or less. You can say sit-down meetings were the great equalizer in corporate America. Stand-up meetings bring us back to a jungle dynamic.

Facebook is the largest and most sophisticated data mining operation that has ever existed on Earth. It's very simple actually. If you want to keep any semblance of privacy, don't surrender your personal data to them. PERIOD. You don't need Facebook. It solves no problem. It creates a lot of them, though.

Any doctor or potential doctor caught cheating on their board certs, or caught aiding another cheating on their board certs, should be barred from serving as a medical doctor for the entirety of their lives.

I find it very odd that people believe that any criticism of the Obama administration has to be accompanied by a statement proclaiming that Republicans are bad, even when it's completely irrelevant to the topic being discussed. It's almost as if, for some weird reason, people think they have to apologize for making very valid and necessary criticisms against the terrible policies supported by this president. Not that I give a shit about Republicans, but I think the apologetic tone softens the criticism, which should be expressed as plainly and bluntly as possible. This president is not what he promised to be. We should't apologize for pointing out the fact that we were duped.