I was raised in the Catholic church, so don't preach to me how Christianity is about "love".

This apple is red. Therefore all apples are red.

Maybe they recognize that there's a ton of open source software that people really want to use, and that easy installs of OSS on Windows adds value to Windows.

Like how they contributed some Linux stuff a while back to make it easier to run Linux in a VM... with Windows as the host machine (I'm not clear on the details, so I'm probably getting the terminology wrong).

"textbooks should be free/open source [...] all schoolchildren own iPads or other e-readers"

I like the idea, but I fear it is unlikely.

"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened."

What worries me is that all the false positives will make doctors think all positives are false positives. It may not happen often, but this is evidence that it's happened before.

You can't assume every apparently-nonresponsive patient is a dead salmon.

I actually knew it from Oolite, but I figured the universe they share is obscure enough (although with search engines, nothing is obscure for the online reader).

For those not in the know: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_%28video_game%29

Someone mod this guy up. Google's funding of multiple browsers makes sense, yet pretty much everyone else assumes it doesn't.

So is it right or wrong to make campaign promises which rely on having power?

Multiple times.

That may be, but at least in America, we have a few advantages, such as high turnover of leaders (every 4.16 years, on average) and infighting.

If I have to have an evil government, I'd like it to be slow and incompetent.

I chose educational materials, too.

I pretty much agree with your criteria for throwing out an idea, though I would like to add another: Things that have already been done, or can be done easily. One idea sounded vaguely like Wikileaks, and another sounded a lot like Wikinews.

I mean, if an idea has been or can be implemented with existing software and a webserver, I see no need to throw $10 million at it.