The bad side of technology (*), those that wanted face to face events are now denied it. The benefits of that are now gone.

Online in addition, ok, but canceling physical events, including one already scheduled and that people have already made arrangements for (travel, time off, etc) is bad.

People can socialize and network at a physical event, there are somethings online only lacks.

(*) Technology has also caused the loss of video stores, CD stores, so many things are hard to buy locally now. Technology should add options, not destroy them!

You seem to have an interesting (*) definition of 100%.

(*) i.e. mathematically impossible.

100% means NO other. so 100% "minority" means no non-"minority".

(nevermind that 100% isn't numerically a minority and we should use another word or phrase)

You sound like a Republican.

Downsizing is good?

Layoffs are good?

When even a gov't job is subject to layoffs and there is no job security ANYWHERE we have truly failed.

These are PEOPLE and LIVES you are talking about getting rid of, not machines!

Thank God we have Obama, since you Romney types would destroy so many lives if there wasn't anything to stop you.

I don't know about you all, but I'm putting some money in guillotine futures.

So you'll make money even if the gov't wins and executes all the people it doesn't like.

Win-win. (in a way)

Exactly.

Making it (spyware, malware which stops your PC from doing unapproved things, etc) legal isn't enough, if people can fight it by disabling it, removing it, etc.

If the law won't stop it, but people can, the companies pushing for this gain nothing.

So they have to make it illegal for people to fight against. Claim a property right in the software or an anti-circumvention prohibition and say people fighting it are interfering with property and/or circumventing protections.

Then they'll pass a law where providing tools to remove spyware will get you a 5 year prison sentence.

He had good reason.

People at war with the US need to be dealt with.

Obama has proved himself trustworthy.

I wouldn't have trusted Bush with that power.

Assuming that they're not planning to dismantle the outfit and sell it off chunk by chunk.

That's what Mitt Romney did at Bain Capital. Making millions destroying companies, selling off the pieces and causing people to become unemployed!

I trust Obama with that power.

Some knucklehead in my neighborhood shot off a gun to celebrate the New Year.

They had it timed right to the second, smart enough to figure that out, but stupid enough to do it.

Any air conditioner without both overload trips and compressor short cycling protection is almost certain to be dead of old age already..

Be very glad Obama was elected, or things would be worse.

You can also have something write to I/O ports which overvolt things.

I'm fairly certain that if all I did was write Perl, I'd go insane.'"

but Perl is a beautiful language!