Meanwhile the man who has been masterminding the release of the documents about the NSA - and disrupting the schedule of world leaders - was on a Brazilian road, talking on his mobile and complaining to the BBC about a lousy phone connection.
"That will be a bigger problem for Netflix than any competing companies or lousy internet connections".
(Asda was nice, but the internet connection was lousy).
Any time there's a lousy experience people have an emotional connection to and spend a lot of money on, there's an opportunity for a startup.
It can't possibly be our lousy teaching, it's got to be that slow Internet connection.
That's a lousy deal, especially for a single person looking for an emotional connection, not a role in a harem.
(You wouldn't get an argument from me if you attributed this lack of connection to the fact that standardized test results are lousy indicators of educational aptitude or achievement.
Many of its critics remember when AOL was synonymous with constant busy signals, dropped connections, slow connection speeds, proprietary Web-browsing and e-mail software that was truly lousy,.
And in many developing countries, persistent crime, lousy education and a lack of opportunities for energetic people to prosper without graft and political connections.
