ancienthart

Won't work simply because people will report false instances for personal gain, revenge, etc.

This is an example of "The problem with commons", where a limited resource that isn't "owned" by anyone, or rather "owned by the commons" is usually mishandled and used up.
In Europe, farmland used to be owned by the commons during the early medieval period. Because no-one was responsible for it, such commonly owned farmland was often low in fertility and yield.
Later on, the commons were divided up and ownership handed out to peasants by the feudal lords, and wonder of wonders - when you own something, you take better care of it.
Now deciding WHO owns a limited resource - that becomes a REAL problem.

Properly regulated porn will benefit our society, but if legislators don't crack down on child and non-consensual porn, that will cause big problems.

Oh god no.

It took years for people to get annoyed with Bush. Anything looks good after that.

As a digital camera consumer, I tend to dislike battery pack-based cameras. This pack will only work for cameras that are designed to use it.
Now, if you see similar technology in an AA-form battery, then we can get excited.

This question needs to be made clearer. Does it refer to banks in US only, or globally?
In Australia, the Commonwealth Bank is underwritten/guaranteed by the Government, thus is seen as more stable than credit unions. Additionally, St George, the biggest credit union in Australia, took a nose-dive several years ago.
Bendigo Bank became popular a few years back, but mainly in communities that had branches of major banks shut down. The Commonweath Bank and other banks were seen to be less interested in the average customer, and this drove customers to the credit unions and community banks.
However, since then, the large Australian banks have realised that alienating the average customer was a really bad idea, and have been doing their best to change their business practices.
Overall, the current situation in Australia, is that community banks and credit unions have reached a plateau, and I am personally concerned that with the current economic climate, you will start to see more credit unions collapse like St George. I predict that the Commonwealth Bank will see a return of customers, but not the National Australia Bank - dodgy bastards :D.

It's the "market share" bit that makes me dubious. We still have to see if there can be a strong enough revenue stream from internet TV.

It will be a mutt. They're the friendliest and healthiest. I also wouldn't be all that surprised if he got it from a shelter.

Lets go through them one by one:
Political career is shot - no-one's gonna nominate him for anything.
Volunteer work - maybe, but I doubt he'd get much publicity for it.
Executive - you must be joking, right? Would you let him handle your business?
An author - this one is a pretty strong potential, though whatever he writes would most likely be ghost-written for him.
A speaker - hah. If someone writes the speeches for him. They may trot him out now and again at semi-political rallies, but I doubt anyone would find him interesting enough to listen to full time.
A professor? - of SFA maybe.
Do nothing - 0%, see below.
Other (most likely) - sit at the family ranch, life off the family wealth, give hand-jobs to big oil at social functions, try to keep his daughters out of the porn industry.

Not in first quarter - we'd have to see ongoing financial difficulty over 1-2 years before they completely tank.

Out of curiosity, how will this be verified?

Windows ALWAYS starts to blab early about the "next great thing" - still took them roughly seven years to get out Vista.

The title and the question differ from each other - confusing.
We won't see an economic recovery in 2009.

No doubt that Vista is dead in the water financially. (Will Microsoft _ever_ sell enough copies before the next version to recoup development costs?)
However, most people are quite happy to stick with XP. If there is any haemorrhaging of users to Linux/Mac, it's going to be sllloooooooowwwwwwww.

Economies and countries around the world seem to be scrambling to keep things together. Witness Kevin Rudd's "Christmas bonus" promises here in Australia. Russia will secure the loan to Iceland - though it won't do much to stop the meltdown.

If they've kept the law from requiring licenses this long, then the status quo will continue in 2008. Never mind that historically, air-powered rifles were considered _the_ sniper's choice during the 100-year war in Europe. If civilisation ever collapses in Australia, spring-powered air-rifles will probably be the weapon of choice here. (No easy-to-access sulphur deposits in this, the least geologically active continent in the world. Thus, hard to make gunpowder.)

Hard to call. At least here in Australia I can predict that even if the oil prices drop, petrol prices will stay constant or even rise.

Oh yeah. Yahoo hasn't done anything in the last 1/2 decade that shows they've got "something in the background", and with a recession/depression imminent there will be plenty of pressure to "cost-cut". What people don't seem to realise, is that with software and web-services, it really only costs to produce new ideas/implementations/services. Yahoo can coast (I.e. cost-cut) on its accomplishments for a few years yet (Though it will quickly become obsolete if it does so.).
They don't have the philosophical or business focus to generate new approaches like Google. The public perception of Yahoo is a company that had a good idea then got lazy. In this case, I think the public perception is probably pretty accurate.

This is a tough one. I see "Web 2.0" continuing as a hype, but the phrase becoming more and more ridiculous in the public eye. They'll probably give it a new hype-name of course.