And still after 22 years of web, webdevelopers don't give anything about standards and have to rely on javascript and flash to even be able to visit websites. I wonder what the results would have been for standard compliant web-sites.

The woman suing Mc Donalds wasn't stupid. A: she got quite a lot of cash out of it, and B: the reason why she won the case was that was shown that Ms Donalds put profit before safety. http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cur78.htm

Runs out and goes register "Chen": sorry, this name is already taken.

Bookstore owners have to pay sales tax. Amazon doesn't have to. End result: said store owner goes bankrupt because Amazon has a competitive advantage because of tax differences. More unemployment and less tax-income for the state because of less sales-tax income AND because less people have a job. So actually this means a smaller amount of people have to cough up the taxes the state needs, while if you have regional businesses, all that is smeared out over more people. This is just plugging a loophole.

At first I thought it was because the US won their group on the world championship. But then I realised the are no football fans in America.

If I get a game, I really want to give it a chance. But the majority of games are just real bad. The 4-5 hours is the time I play a game before I decide that it's a really bad game never to be played again. Of course even bad games have their followers that insist on playing it till the end.

I'm from the Netherlands. Although heavily crowded we have about the safest roads in the world (together with Norway and England). This is not because the Dutch are such good drivers, but the chances for being caught speeding or driving red lights are very high. If it would all stop and instead prevent all murders and other similar unnatural deaths in our country, we wouldn't save the amount of lives as are being saved by being strict about traffic. So in my opinion the measures against speeding are good and I can't understand why they would get taken away.
(On the other hand: private parties getting a cut from the fines? Only in Amerika)