you say downfall, I say lifeblood.

wah wah. as you know the shareholders is everywoman and man, not a bunch of billionaires but rather people who deserve for google to do their best. if you think maximizing profits is wrong, you should tax the companies accordingly.

Ask this: If it were mandatory for all usable organs to be harvested, would the long run result be that demand for organs would be filled to the extent that there would be no need/incentive for questionable executions/pulling of plugs/etc?

Yeah, legalize your pet drug, eh? Legalize it all, and stop using my tax dollars from to keep adults from using drugs they want to use.

because they're public figures. yes, you are actually allowed to watch the government do its work in this country.

This simply is not true.

It exaggerates an obvious truism in four ways. Those who go about repeating this catch phrase don't seem to have thought very deeply about what it actually says.

What is true is something like this: those who are UNAWARE of the LESSONS of the past are MORE LIKELY to LIVE SOME SIMILAR VERSION of it.

Important distinctions.

Oh, they know I suck at intercourse. They all know.

I used to love NewEgg, but they don't pack sensitive items well ... video cards costing $300, hard drives, etc. all arrive with a few sheets of paper and the video card in a box shorter than the video card...it didn't work and I had to argue for a full refund for 15 emails, but I did get it. Since then I've spent $1500 at ZipZoomFly, TigerDirect, and $50 at NewEgg and that only to get my shipping refund credit for the video card actually.

Can't they just take names and watch hackers until they break a law and then throw them in the clink? How hard would it be?

Why not just use EULA's instead of copyright to enforce GPL?

followed by doctors, then presidents, finally girlfriends.

An illegal search by someone working for the government as a contractor throws out evidence just like an illegal search by a government employee. If the cops pay me to break into your house it's an illegal search.

it worries me that it worries you so much

Try a studio apartment, makes my life simple enough.

not everybody can afford to buy a new computer every two years, or is tech savvy enough to know how to upgrade cheaply. hell, there are those who have hand me downs of hand me downs, schools, kids, public places like coffee shops, even libraries depending on the city. to them this info is important, but i doubt the mass media ever broadcasts the information.