SimTower is an elevator simulator and Tiny Tower is a video game. Having the word Tower in their name doesn't make them similar.

I know I'm replying to an AC but I would like to think that corporate lobbying was allowed because sometimes, a corporation made up of specialists in a field would know better how things in their expertise work as opposed to politicians (e.g. technology, education, environment, etc.). I am not a lawyer nor someone versed in law history so I'm not familiar with corporate lobbying's history but I would like to think that there was something good about it (as opposed to a shallow reason like the thinkofthechildren or LOSINGJOBS qualifier) when it came to exist.

If only there was a line that can be easily identified between "Corporation that knows what it's doing for the greater good" and "Corporation that is trying to abuse the hell out of the system and/or doing something stupid".

What's the point of having a democratic government that has far-reaching powers if the 99% doesn't care.

As I've already posted here...

WARNING: This is a protest against SOPA and its Nazi-style fascism. You must understand what we are protesting about to proceed.

[ ] Get me out of here!
[ ] Tell me more about SOPA
[x] Yes, I am over 18

Sounds like we can drop a miniature version of a N.U.K.E. of sorts (two parter) instead of just one or two leaflets. "The argument is weak but the repetition is compelling."

I can see how it'll look:

WARNING: This is a protest against SOPA and its Nazi-style fascism. You must understand what we are protesting about to proceed.

[ ] Get me out of here!
[ ] Tell me more about SOPA
[x] Yes, I am over 18

Some good that'll do.

Just so you know, there's a difference between "good, strong leadership" and "sociopathy".

This is written by a market research analyst. He just wants you to buy more Sony stock so that his shares in Sony are worth more.

The DAs will lose political clout with the police if they prosecute cases, even ones with mountains of evidence unless the expected political backlash is too great. Chances are, they'll just accidentally forget about it and/or rough up the guy a bit for show to pretend they thought he had no case.

Sadly, it'll probably just get paperclipped with a budget-related bill to bypass the filibuster like they did with the Patriot Act extensions.

It'd be nice if the rest of the Senate decides that it's actually a terrible bill and vote to kill it.

The parent's post just totally flew over your head.

Who cares if it costed $1,500 three years ago? If I bought Laptop model A for $1,500 three years ago and I'm getting it replaced, then I should get a laptop with similar specs to the model A, not the latest model B that costs $1,500. It's not about how much a model A costed then, but how much it costs now. Object-to-object equality, not dollar amount to dollar amount.

If I bought a blank CD-R for originally $2.50, and you scratched it before I could use it, then I'd expect you to get me another CD-R, not a DVD, nor a Blu-Ray disc, regardless of how much it costs now (e.g. pennies or less). What a lot of people are assuming is that I should get $2.50 worth of CD-Rs, which would be like...more than 10 CD-Rs (I think) depending on the store/brand/going-out-of-business sale/etc.

I think some working families throw their children into daycares during the day after school (if the kids go to school) until they come home from work. I hear daycares can cost a lot too.

Goldblum's achievements in Independence Day were very believable because he was obviously writing the attack using Perl scripts. Everybody knows that Perl is the miracle of the universe. Not even alien technology can withstand attacks from Perl scripts.

Here, I'll summarize it for you:

"Cybercriminals" use: Underground Forums, Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channels, Instant Messaging (IM), and Social Networks. And they use Russian versions of Paypal for payments.

That's the whole of the article. In the next column, she's going to talk about what goods cybercriminals trade for money.

The IRC channel is analogous to an exclusive party where matches as well as transactions all occur within a specific IRC channel.
She could've just called it a private chatroom and skip writing the entire paragraph.

In other news, a few years ago, Microsoft was poised to buy Yahoo!'s search engine but didn't. Would there be Yahoo! Search, Yahoo! Bing, and Yahoo! Mail if Microsoft had been able to close a deal to buy out Yahoo! in the mid-2000s? No, says Balmer. "If we had bought Yahoo!, there wouldn't have been Yahoo! Search or Yahoo! Bing ... I'd have screwed that up."

We'll have more on that story and other past attempted company takeover news at '11.