He said 30 days, or monthly, so 12 (December's password) becomes 1 (January's password).

The US auto industry is not uncompetitive because of their unions, but because of their lack of engineering quality and desirable designs. What the unions ask for in the US is a subset of what workers already enjoy in most other civilised countries.

Sherman Antitrust act, for having a secret agreement with a content producer that can remove content of their competitors at will, thereby giving them an unfair advantage.

While it might not be the crux of this dispute, if this turns out to be true Google might have to explain in a future antitrust hearing how it is that a media company has the power to remove any video it feels is competitive with it.

Not that I don't think you're right, but if you love the service and it's worth it to you then why not wait until they destroy Netflix's value proposition rather than doing it preemptively?

What exactly did they share and with whom when I searched for "occupy seattle". And what did they store, and when and with whom did they share that stored data.

If you cannot answer that question in the specific, it's not clear enough. 'We share data with people' is not very clear.

Yes and no.

The problem with ad-supported the searcher-is-the-product Google is that it is exploitative to those that don't realize the ramifications since it's not in Google's best interest to be completely honest with how they operate and monetize. Those in the know can prevent some of those techniques they understand from harvesting their every bit, but the majority are in the dark. To me, that feels a bit underhanded.

The problem with for-pay the searcher-is-the-customer Google is that any payment scheme that is easy and secure to use today will require tying all those searches to an account, giving Google not only revenue from searchers, but unavoidable information about them too. That's double-dipping, and feels a bit overmuch.

One could I suppose sell anonymous search codes at the local cash shop and have them be good for 100 searches or whatnot. Or some other scheme, but that's not very cheap in a cost per payment method nor is it very convenient.

No one, but incidentally that is the data roaming rate from AT&T in Hungary.

Since when is fuel consumption not a concern in racing? Fuel has mass, and volume.

They publish their contact address:

BBC World Service
Bush House, The Strand
London WC2B 4PH
UK

They also have a web-form to contact them: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/institutional/2009/03/000000_contact_us.shtml

Forming one's own opinion and applying actual cognitive reasoning does not go very well with making broad sweeping generalisations about an entire user-base with diverse needs to fill. Especially when the person you call an iOS user did not specify if they were in that set or not, merely commented that many iOS users are such because they feel a walled garden is safer. It's pretty presumptuous to attack him or her for not forming his or her own opinion based on a comment he or she made about a set of which his or her membership is unknown.

The poster had NetFlix on the list, which is not free, and mentioned nothing about free only good quality with no bullshit.

Amazon has the entire Original Series available to stream with no advertisements for Prime members.

Personal gratification?