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what i'm more interested in, is WHERE THE FUCK IS THE MONEY GOING?

When businesses report losses in their earnings reports, it doesn't necessarily mean that they actually spent that much money more than they brought in during the process of doing business. What is usually the source of very large losses is that they are taking on charges for future liabilities or writing down assets.

I am of course too lazy to actually look through their quarterly reports, but my guess is that $158 million loss has a lot do with things like saying "we need to hand out large severance checks to people we are firing because we cancelled their game projects" or "we had developed stuff (code, graphics) built for this game that we valued on our books as assets worth $X million dollars but now they're cancelled so they're worthless" or even "we planned to spend $X million on advertising for these games but had to cancel our contract and pay some or all of that money upfront."

The [main hybrid battery] has no user-serviceable parts and can kill you if you're careless.

Do you really think that will stop people trying?

On a side note, the "normal 12V car battery" can kill you just as easily. If not easier (700+A vs 6.5A). Volts don't kill you, amps do.

I do think you're trolling, but I'm opting not to mod and give you the benefit of the doubt. (posting anonymously because of previous modding performed in topic)

The most damning implication of RealID is that of circumstancial evidence. The government would have further information from which to make inferences and read sinister plans into your innocent actions. The more a person is tracked, the easier it is to show that information in a criminal light. The idea of concentrating that information strikes me as dangerous and a recipe for corruption. For a more recent example of something similar having negative consequences, look at the National Student Loan Database and the shutdown that just happened there due to the insecurites in the system and the abuse of the knowledge.

As tinfoil hat as it may sound, Look at how the government releases information about people's habits to the media to portray the party as guilty, If you want an example that stands out in my mind, Richard Jewell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Jewell, the person who saved lives in Atlanta in 1996, was later investigated and had his entire life dragged out into the public eye, including spurious and salacious details such as his porn collection.

So you could argue that you haven't lost any rights. But you're misrepresenting the arguement. It's not about a constitutional right. It's about the idea that Governments are dangerous entities and the idea that concentrating more information and power in a body of inperfect people who may be more tempted to use and abuse that information for their own ends is a bad one and should be avoided like the plague.

Heck, maybe you trust the government. Maybe you believe that the police are out to protect you and are all good people. Maybe your life really is that obscure. I think Police are human, there are good ones and bad ones. Unfortunately, it only takes a few bad ones to really screw things up. How about having a nightclub fight, have the cop take an unarmed person outside then shoot him in the back of the head repeatedly, his also unarmed brother runs to help his now dying brother, and the police shoot him in the back.http://www.accessnorthga.com/news/ap_newfulls tory.asp?ID=90914 it would be bigger news if not for the Virginia Tech Shootings. Or, if that's not bad enough, how about Kathryn Johnston 88, who was gunned down in her own house after the police lied to get a no knock warrent and broke down her door, she shot at the police, and wounded them, only to be cut down by their return fire. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryn_Johnston The point I'm trying to make here isn't that 'Police are bad mmmK' but that power is abused. and that RealID would simply be another tool used to abuse power.

I hope this helps explain why I would be concerned.

Let me pile on with the others who have said, yes you can. There are numerous cases where anti-abortion groups wanted to run ads on television showing dead fetuses and such but were denied by the stations in question. The groups claimed discrimination and other things but the courts consistently have held that television stations and such do not have to run the ads.

Here are cases involving billboard companies refusing to run ads because of their content:

North Georgia
Crawford Texas
Hollywood
Times Square

I know for a fact that Lamar Advertising refused to run ads in my area from anti-Bush people during the last campaign.

Here's a story from last year (2006) when CBS refused to run two ads during the Super Bowl. One was for PETA and the other was anti-Bush. Link

So yes, you can deny someone advertisement on a whim just like a restaurant has the right to refuse someone service for any reason they so choose.

Read on down to the end of MasterCard's press relesase.

The U.S. Government is currently considering legislation to expand the Gramm-Leach-Bliley law requiring better security procedures for personal financial information. Currently MasterCard is subject to this law - third party processors are not. I would not be at all surprised if no real accounts have actually been compromised, but then I like tin foil hats.

In fact, Master Card is already backtracking:
http://www.accessnorthga.com/news/ap_newfullstory. asp?ID=61946

Now the number of cards considered "at risk" is only 68,000 - and the spokesperson for Master card says "It wasn't a large amount of fraud, just an abnormal pattern that triggered our system. ... We have tracking systems in place to find the common point of interaction."

Of course, no person who isn't a criminal could oppose "protecting" your personal information better, could they? Especially if it helps protect the children...

But the list of broken arrows is a pretty long one. The way I understand it, there's no one organization that keeps track of all incidents and lost devices. On the bright side, they may have found the lost Mk-39 near Savannah, GA.

It's being done here in Atlanta as well. They're using construction equiptment to do so. Story here