you KNOW that's not why they're doing it. If this were the case, half of court cases would have the lawyers looking through victims' internet history. They're only doing it in this case because widely-publicized stories always lead to biased rulings, and they want to look for any and every angry comment or argument the kid's ever made online to give him a negative image.

You aren't going to see the defense showing any tweets like "brb gonna go beat up this neighborhood watch guy" or "lol gonna rob a store without a gun" or anything that would indicate that Trayvon had bad intentions the night he was killed. Instead you're only going to see negative comments he made on completely irrelevant things like youtube videos or on somebody's facebook wall weeks or months prior to his murder.

Because clearly that Zimmerman psycho knew all about some kid's online comment history when he harassed and shot him.

The defense lawyers and the judge need to be thrown in jail along with him.

$100 billion/year is a STEAL compared to what the US spends on travel. Consider our highway system, which already costs billions a year, and then EVERYONE needs a car for it, and all the GAS for those cars (which alone probably costs more than that whole high-speed rail system), and most people will be using a GPS so they don't get lost. And then for those people who don't want to sit in a car and stare at the road for 5-10 hours or more, just consider the upkeep costs on our air travel and airports. $100 billion is nothing compared to all that.

There's also the little fact that high-speed rail is by far the safest form of travel available. Accidents almost never happen, it's actually faster than air travel up until the 4-hour mark, AND most trains have wifi service (at least in the EU).

a class like political science would be the last thing to replace a science course with. Americans are already dumb and opinionated enough as it is; for god's sake, don't let the curriculum reinforce that in following generations.

you can't seriously be blaming a middle-school kid for being manipulated and subsequently tormented by a 32-year-old psychopath.

I'm a pretty avid gamer, but I wouldn't really mind this law in the US. I already go out of my way to get parts that are rated energy-efficient anyway, and everyone else should as well. If that means you have to settle with a slightly lower clock speed that might result in an ALMOST-noticeable framerate drop... you'll live.

Things like this are always a nice reminder that prostitution to corporations is at least ONE thing our congress can agree on.

If our submarines can't even see a ship next to them, how on earth will they EVER see the evil Taliban/Al Qaeda/Iranian/North Korean navy approaching US shores for a 2012 Red Dawn scenario?

Quick! MORE MILITARY SPENDING!

You, sir, make me wish i had mod points right now.

The office jerk is pretty much never the smartest person at the company. If he was, he'd have the sense to shut up and realize when he's just being an ass. But he doesn't, because he's not brilliant; he only thinks he is.

So what do you do with him? Fire him and grab someone who's actually a team player: Something pretty important for any tech company.

You can't assert that novels don't have an effect on society just because the author doesn't single-handedly put an end to all the problems they address like they're superman or something.

Also: did you REALLY just say "Harry Porter" THREE times?

are you seriously going to stick to that single comparison while ignoring the obvious similarities that the others have with every other form of advertising? If that's the case, there's no reasoning with you anyway.

no, they aren't different things. both are forms of advertisement. you dress nicely to a bar so men/women will notice you if you're single (or possibly a two-timing jerk), you do well in high school so colleges will notice you, you write a resume so employers will notice you, the list goes on. It's all advertisement. So yes, you're a hypocrite if you scoff at a business for advertising its services. What would you expect? Should they just sit idly by and hope potential customers stumble across them? I wouldn't want to work for any business YOU start up.

so I take it you've never seen any movie ever? Because those are all advertised.

Man, those Lord of the Rings movies were so terrible, the studio needed to ADVERTISE them so people knew they existed!

Every (successful) business in the world relies on advertising. That's how people know to look there for something.

I only took a few required business courses, but i'm pretty sure "sitting in an alleyway and hoping someone walks in there asking for what you're selling" isn't one of the chapters in a typical business textbook.

Also, why does the last-resort argument always have the word "sheep" in it? Frankly, if you're too weak-willed to resist an ad from Target, being coerced into buying Tupperware sets for half-off are the least of your problems.