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The bridge's sorry state was known years ago. A certain political party used the "environmentalist" demagoguery to keep the status quo.

And now the same people are blaming the company that built and maintained the structure:

Transport Minister Danilo Toninelli, a member of the governing Five Star Movement (M5S), called for the immediate resignation of the company's top management Wednesday.

"First of all the top executives of Autostrade have to resign," he said in a message on Facebook. "If they can't manage the motorways, then the state will do it."

Because the government is so good at everything...

I know that if I donated my blood thinking it was going to save a life, and it was instead sold for profit, I'd be a little disturbed.

Do you honestly think blood isn't already sold for profit to hospitals?

Personally, I liked that one:

http://abcnews.go.com/Technolo...

http://www.wptv.com/news/local...

Just search for "zombie bees" to see a bunch of links popping up.

The worst that would have happened was someone getting away with their car and wallets.

You don't know that. It could have ended up like this: Crime History: Wendy's workers killed execution-style

Or this: Chuck E Cheese killer, Nathan J. Dunlap moves closer to execution, Supreme Court rejects appeal

There's a very good reason to store data. Local police will probably give it to the state or federal (FBI) police. I'm sure they can find ways around the HIPAA thing. It's a potential gold mine.

Except that Google blocked the video in Libya and Egypt. Google also caved to China's demands to remove links to certain types of websites on their China version.

Google is just another corporation. They are not a Free Speech crusader. They're a Free Internet crusader, but really only because their business would be hurt immensely by a controlled Internet.

PricewaterhouseCoopers. 'sending carriers' average revenue per smartphone user down to $83 per month last year. That's a drop from $86 in 2010 and $93 from 2009.

So they are losing money per customer , this really just a way to make more money off of you.

Yes, they are. Here are the citations for those so inclined:

NYPD wanting to run scanners on the streets of New York
TSA searching cars pulling up to the loading/unloading ramp at an airport
VIPR search in a train station
Another VIPR search at a train station
Stopping commercial vehicles on a highway in Arizona
Searches at a bus station

I'm sure there are more, but that should be enough to prove that no, the powers-that-be aren't limiting violations of the 4th Amendment to the airports.

As many problems as there are in government databases, they generally don't use the contents of the databases for marketing, and they're supposed to attempt to keep access to the data restricted to only those with legitimate reason. That could include law enforcement or legal officials, or the person who is the subject of the file, with the proper request.

You can continue to think that.
Florida made $62 million by selling Florida drivers' license information
Drivers histories $40

...I'd be surprised if they don't want to expand their coverage to trans and buses as soon as it's feasible.

Have you been living under a rock the last six months? They are already moving that direction. Here's a short list of links, for your reading/viewing pleasure:

In train stations.
...and again.
In a bus station.
Video of the Savannah, GA train station search.
TSA's spin^Wresponse to the Savannah, GA search.
What a VIPR operation is.
Napolitano musing about expanding the scope of TSA's operations before the above searches happened.

HTH!

Yeah, exactly! Fortunately, TSA only conducts searches at airports before you board the airplane and they never, ever, direct train passengers to a secure area (where it wasn't otherwise necessary for them to go) at the END of a trip BY TRAIN. Because that would just be absurd. How soon will the government apologists be arguing that if you leave your house, you are giving implied consent to be searched?

How about the government goes back to respecting the spirit of the 4th Amendment? You don't have the right to conduct an invasive pat-down or electronic strip search until and unless you have a bona fide reason to suspect that I might be a danger to other airline passengers, and no, buying a ticket is not a "reasonable suspicion."

Ohhhhhh...meth: http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/two-men-stabbed-after-sign-language-was-mistaken-for-gang-signs

Are you stupid? A quick google search yields stuff like this:

http://www.local6.com/news/13542239/detail.html
http://www.local6.com/news/10832086/detail.html?rss=orlpn&psp=news
http://www.foxcarolina.com/news/17379037/detail.html#-
http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/sep/19/home-invader-fatally-shot/
http://www.wptv.com/content/tcoast/story.aspx?content_id=13fcb937-2235-4ad3-9322-974c87b31eb1

I could post tons more links, but I think you get the idea. Of course, there's plenty of stories of home invaders shooting unarmed residents, and that's a good reason to keep guns in your home.

Of course, dumb liberals like yourself probably think that banning all guns will simple stop home invasions, completely neglecting the fact that many criminals are large men who've spent lots of time in prison pumping iron, and don't need guns to commit crimes against women, children, or elderly people. It only takes a swift kick to get inside a modern home, with the way they build them now. If you're a 75-year-old woman, how exactly are you going to defend yourself against 4 musclebound men intent on doing you harm?

There are bullshit rules, and good rules. Bullshit ones shouldn't invalidate the good ones.

Cosmetologists: Licensing (and training) probably sounded silly, until people started having problems with the flesh eating bacteria and pedicures:
http://www.wptv.com/content/investigative/story.aspx?content_id=e7ee80e8-7df5-4d46-aa21-c6455c92f32d

A little training, and a piece of paper proving they had training would be nice. It doesn't mean that they will follow the procedures, but the license fees help to pay for the periodic inspection of their facilities.