1) I imagine they do not realise the significance of this particular disease. Disease is far more prevalent there than it is here, why is this one special? How will you convince them that this is so?
2) The familiies are literally being seperated with a very high chance of never seeing their loved ones alive.
I'm sure there are other contributing factors, but do you honestly belive that you would act differently in the same circumstances?

Exactly. Nintendo has a window of opportunity to open up its system and avoid total collapse. It will be a lot more painful to escape once that window is closed.

It's news like this that makes me point my webcam at the wall when i'm not using it.

glasshole.

You are right! Most users are not even aware that they are being tracked or that they have the ability to disable it. But whatever, they are just naive/ignorant right? Big brother knows best.

This is a pretty tall claim. Any evidence to back it up?

I hope you are talking about the Android phone?
http://blog.opower.com/2012/09/how-much-does-it-cost-to-charge-an-iphone-5-a-thought-provokingly-modest-0-41year/

Well what are we comparing here price or performance?

Well actually, none of those things are true.

To be honest, in this situation I would like the compiler to inform me that it had eliminated some code as it is probably not what I meant. Why not write it like this instead?

int foo(int a, unsigned int b)
{
a+=b;
return a;
}

Then in the calling code:
int *a;
unsigned int *b;
*b=10;
*a = foo(1,*b);

I understand that this is a simple example, but I prefer to write my code like this as it ensures that the pointers are only dereferenced within the scope in which they are declared.

I agree with most of what you are saying, however... interfaces designed by coders are usually awful.

Who needs a dislike button when censorship can be enforced?

Because it dilutes the gravy train.

I can't see how $150 billion in cash reserves will become irrelevant any time soon. For perspective, the cash reserves of ALL american companies combined is around $1500 billion.

I wonder if this is what Glen Greenwald is joining... http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/10/16/1216218/glenn-greenwald-leaves-the-guardian-to-start-his-own-site