Let's face it, 90% of people are fucking stupid, and believe everything they see on TV, including "crime dramas" where unbelievable feats of forensic science are achieved in every episode. People eat this shit up, and most of this stupid underclass believes it is necessary to prevent or solve crimes.

This is why the revelations that these ubiquitous, omniscient surveillance systems exists generated nothing more than enthusiastic yawns among the populace.

People... just... don't... care...

Honestly, the people who do care, even being as vocal as they can be, make an almost imperceptible noise against the drums of big tyrannical government - like an annoying mosquito in the ear of the underinformed, low-information majority who just wants to know when the next episode of the Kardashians or Property Brothers or CSI or other mindless drivel will be on.

Your logic an assumptions are horribly flawed, most notably because you are assuming they can't and won't ever lower the price again if they need more subscribers.

They go off so often that nobody even notices them anymore. It would probably not change the accident rate to simply get rid of horns altogether.

This makes perfect sense from a shareholder point of view. Raising the price to $119 will decrease the number of Prime members, thereby decreasing the cost of providing the Prime service, but the people who stay with Prime will likely more than pay for those who leave. So, it's a win-win for shareholders and Amazon.

FCC is chaired by one of Obama's Telecom Lobbyist buddies, remember?

What is so funny is that his broken campaign promise is STILL on the change.gov website:

http://change.gov/agenda/ethic...

        "I am in this race to tell the corporate lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over. I have done more than any other candidate in this race to take on lobbyists â" and won. They have not funded my campaign, they will not run my White House, and they will not drown out the voices of the American people when I am president."

        -- Barack Obama, Speech in Des Moines, IA
        November 10, 2007

Ok, I'm gonna go ahead and disagree with you there. Would you care to cite any of these "100 cases" for us laypeople?

An almost identical bill passed almost unanimously in South Carolina a couple of years ago. The vote was 109-3 with support of both parties.

Do you honestly think it will go any differently in KS?

We had the same thing happen here a couple of years ago. Oconee county got fed up with the broadband players' reluctance to hook up rural parts of the county, so they decided to go in with the Feds to roll out universal fiber to all, because of the economic implications of such..

In response, AT&T objected, said they had planned on universal coverage, and lobbied the State for a "level playing field" law that would prohibit hooking residences up to any publicly funded infrastructure where the same subsidies were not given to AT&T and other private carriers.

The day the bill was signed into Law, the AT&T CEO declared wireline infrastructure dead, and that not one more penny would be sunk into wireline expansion in South Carolina.

Now that nobody has jobs anymore, I guess it's not important to know precisely what time it is... Is there a "Vienna Sausage o'clock" so people know to go pick up their welfare checks?

Do you really think it's a hassle to fill out a 1040-EZ?

The problem with this approach is because it discourages people taking deductions to which they are entitled, because there is a not-so-subtle coercion to avoid "correcting" big brother.

Privacy Guard blocks location access to whatever apps it is enabled for.

Generally though, I examine the permissions an app requests _before_ I install it, and if it wants permissions it doesn't need, I don't install it in the first place.

He doesn't care what fanatical group of zealots funds his campaign of anti-Semitic insanity.