@Samurai I-am-awry: WooHoo for the PAPA!

@cipher.Cero: Christ you people fail at analogies. If you want to use food: It's like your supermarket selling you a microwave oven (which you have to sign a contract to agree to use for one year). Unfortunately, the only food you are allowed to cook in that microwave is food from the supermarket that sold you the…

@jazam2010: Journalists/news organizations/magazines will continue to get their revenue the way they have for over a hundred years, through advertising. The newspaper/magazine subscriptions that people pay account for only a small fraction of the traditional revenue stream of these organizations.

@patrick007: Yeah, that's what this is all about.

@espinha: ". Then again, you do NOT have full liberties, your freedom is inherently limited. Can you go out there and start killing people? No you can't, it's a liberty that is limited by law. "

@Sjenkins7000: "It's not like the government is stoping people walking down the sidewalk and making them walk through a body scanner....."

@TufLuck: "all the people whining about the new TSA screening processes and how this is a such a 'huge invasion of privacy' and these policies should be abolished will also be the same people first in line to raise hell about how a successful terrorist event was able to occur and these policies could have prevented it…

@Hami83: Several things you seem to have forgotten (or amazingly don't know). Virtually every major airport in this country is NOT privately owned. They are owned by the cities/counties that they reside in and are usually paid with large scale bond programs. Additionally, TSA workers are NOT private sector…

@snvarmpost: I don't understand what practical benefit this would have to most people. Do you spend your days hopping between hundreds of computers? Perhaps I'm wrong, but I think most people only use one or two computers.

@SecretServus: Not to get too off topic, but DUI checkpoints are an invasion of privacy, as well as the presumption of guilt, instead of innocence. Firstly, you are not guaranteed true safety ANYWHERE, be it on the road or in the air. "you pays your money, you takes your chances", as they say. Additionally, don't…

@Sjenkins7000: Talk about people spouting off about things they don't understand. The image are NOT "rainy black and white images on their screen, where features can just barely be made out (if at all)". They are extremely detailed (there wouldn't be much point in taking them if they weren't), but they software can…

@pete1061: The point is that, as American citizens, we should not be compelled to endure EITHER. Security is a valid concern in the post-9/11 terrorism world, but the forfeiture of liberties of millions of citizens is not the way to go about gaining it (especially as most of these measures are, in effect,…

@lucasway89: And if what you described was actually the way it worked it might be ok (actually, NO it wont, the automatic presumption of guilt until proven innocent is NEVER ok in this country, but lets just give you this, for the sake of argument).

@jbaranski: You may want to head your own advice. Firstly, Google does not derive its revenue from "search", but from advertising, search driven or otherwise. So, unless the inference is that 95% of googles revenue is derived from advertising on its web page as opposed to it's advertising delivered via other…

@mrm: Firstly, your Google skills suck. Here is just the first result I found. "estimated that 93.7 percent of male rape perpetrators are male and 6.3 percent were female. (Greenberg, Bruess and Haffner, 575)

I have only one question for all the "testosterone" motivated posters: If the "child" in question had been a 17 year old male and the person sending the photos a 24 year old female, would you have the same reaction? Would you feel so compelled to protect your progeny?

I knew our auto industry was having trouble, but when the hell did Fisher-Price buy out Ford?

@eddykilowatt: You dont know what you are talking about. While it is true there probably isn't a cutoff switch at the pole (although if you live in a multi-unit dwelling, you may have high cut fuses, which can be pulled with a hot-stick (essentially a cut off switch)). Also pulling the meter itself acts as a cut off.

@joep1984: They let "bloggers" write a piece about their misfortune.

@PresidentKennedy: Hello, my baby. Hello, my honey. Hello, my ragtime gal!