So, by your theory of Republicans making decisions based on facts, all we now have to know is whether Michael Bloomberg thought of this idea prior to 2001 (when he was a Democrat), between 2001 and 2007 (when he was a Republican) or after 2007 (when he turned Independent, presumably so that he could choose whether to take evidence into account)

Data storage? Oooh... cloud computing! Will it be cheaper and more reliable than Apple's Mobile Me?

Perhaps the security services just have a marketing problem. If they "sold" their services as a free replacement for Google Mail and Amazon S3, nobody would complain as much...

OK... time for a lie-down...