Sounds like someone has a case of tiny dick syndrome.

Fixed that for you.

"Sony" tattoos on all new born children? I'll vote for that!

Shit. In that case you better make sure you don't ever e-mail someone who may look at your message on a Sony computer. In fact, someone may have read your post on a Sony computer. I just typed "Sony" twice - no, three times including that one. Better not read this response.

Yeah, if only they could invent a way for us to send our mail "electronically." Oh...

The fact that you can boycott them means they are less powerful than most governments. Regardless, how is a bunch of Sony haters going to boycott a company they don't patronize in the first place? And why should those Sony haters try to get people who like Sony to turn on them for the sole purpose of making them "go broke?" You are already making your choice by not buying their products. Please don't try to ruin it for the rest of us.

Giggiddy.

I was just trying to provide contrast. I do not care to restrict the internet for fear of bad information. Besides, bad information always finds a way...

I recall the Warren Buffet story. How much of his tax was ordinary income and how much dividends and interest? Or capital gains? It is easy to find anecdotes of large companies and rich individuals paying a small percentage, and it is even easier to repeat abstracted statistics about the same, but none of that tells the whole story. I'm not saying the whole story will definitely make the corporations look good, but I will not lambaste them without it.

Even the W3C uses HTML5 as a marketing ploy. How else do you think upper-management will ever back the adoption of standards? They need to be marketed to since they don't know how to read.

Considering that the moon landing was STAGED in a desert it just might!

You obviously aren't American (or one of the herd) if you believe that crap.

Oh, right. Corporations are evil, man! Oddly, while I do not share your disdain for corporations, I do believe Joe Sixpack sits in front of his TV sucking up the propaganda. But I also believe he sucks up nearly the same propaganda while drooling in front of the Web. Access to information is great if you know what to do with it. Shouldn't you be afraid that unrestricted access to the wrong information is just as bad - if not worse - than simply drinking the corporate Kool Aid on network television?

I, too, am glad you are not an American.

1. 1. Don't worry, no one is trying to force a cure on you; and,
2. 2. What about all the people who really, truly want to be cured of "gay?"

We preach that intolerance is wrong, but we are intolerant of people with opposing views. We can't tolerate the idea of a gay man wanting to learn to be straight. Even if the idea is wholly ridiculous, people have the right to do things we think are stupid (astrology, reiki, ouija board, need I continue?)

If Groupon was only used responsibly their IPO would be worth - well, they probably wouldn't be worth an IPO.

I don't see them as a company who will change the internet (like Google or Facebook). I wish them luck, but I wonder why anyone would think they are a good long-term investment.

When someone offers you $6 billion dollars for your company you say 'yes!'