Have you ever seen a 1 page bill before? Head on over to the Library of Congress and find me one... 10 pages is pretty short for a bill actually.

First off, Internet Killswitch != Net Neutrality. Furthermore, Liberman is against Net Neutrality, and he's the one that proposed this nonsense. Get your facts straight.

as long as you're getting away with it, and boy are they getting away with it...

This is a pretty blatant move to pull while your business practices are already being looking into (albeit on a different front). Despite Jobs's comments about the spat with Adobe from D8, Apple seems adamant about throwing any olive branch Adobe extends directly into the fire. This seems like another knee jerk reaction to Google moving further into Apple's markets (Google Music?).

Those issues aside, this part seems reasonable.

Android's market explicitly states which, if any, types of data may be accessed by the app, and which are shared. Perhaps Apple can take note there. Once you send data to a website however (click a mobile ad, search a term on Google, etc.), any expectancy of not having that data aggregated is pretty naive.

Really wishing I had mod points right now. Seriously, this is the truth of the matter, and it is missing in the story post. Then again, I hope this story of this hoax is a hoax of a hoax doesn't run tomorrow and generate them even more traffic.

They haven't abused it yet, they've only just received it. Perhaps they sought the patent to prevent other companies from obtaining it and pursuing frivolous lawsuits.

"It's velour baby!"

Sweet jersey! Go All Blacks!

I agree with the basis of your points, but I think the biggest reason EVE has become so successful is that the players actively shape the game and it's events. More so than any other MMO, EVE's players really seem to have a large influence on what transpires, and how the world/economy work.

They'll need to retrain all of the White House staff on how to "lose e-mails" with a new browser.

Who is this mysterious Nemertes Research Group? They are part of the Internet Innovation Alliance, and you'll never guess who's footing the bill. I'll give you a hint, it starts with A*&*. No that's too easy, let's call them *T&T.

As has become the defacto standard way of doing business, let's pay some 'researchers' to publish the results that favor our intentions. "Remember, statistics don't lie, just the fuckers that use them."

How do you know you aren't just giving out stupid answers?

When you answer a question, or show someone how to do something, and they are able to then complete the task, would it not be safe to assume you adequately answered their inquiry? Now, 2 hours, 1 week, or 7 minutes later they ask again, after they were completely in the clear on the answer/solution/method. Now repeat that indefinitely. Some people either don't have the attention span to remember simple instructions, or simply don't care.

I can't speak specific examples from the OP's life, but I can illustrate one from my own. I play and coach for the local rugby club in my city. There are players who don't have the understanding of what decisions to make or how to execute a particular play. I then explain how to perform the action, and why you would perform an action (explaining the 'why' I find helps people buy into it, they then understand that there is a reason behind the way of doing things, not just me barking orders). From there we execute drills to reinforce the action, after several iterations of which, people tend to get it. They are able to execute the actions properly and decisively. The problem is that the same few individuals routinely forget everything they learn every 4 days, no matter how many times we go through this cycle. They are able to execute it properly once it is explained to them, but how many times should one have to explain the same action?