Amazing! Shock and Awe! Double Jeopardy! Everyone, quick, run for the hills!

In a second case of egregiousness, Mastercard failed to announce a compromise of outrageous proportions at the beginning of this year. In fact, almost 680 million Mastercard credit cards have been exposed to over 17 trillion (17,000,000,000) people worldwide in the twelve months of 2004. Unbelievable. Information here.

(And another amazing increase in the world’s population .