So they don't care what you want, because they want to run their ever larger, bloated, growing websites.

Unless we get a greed cap.

Wow, you are so stupid you shouldn't be allowed to vote. Its ok not to no things, but its not ok to make up shit because one can't be bothered to figure things out.

You are comparing apples to bicycles.

If people can chose their leaders its a democracy, if they can't its a dictatorship.

If a country has a president it is a republic, if they have a king or queen it is a monarchy.

If you have a king or president has no bearing on whether or not it is a democracy.

Iraq, before the war was a republic which was not a democracy.
The UK is a democratic monarchy.
Saudi Arabia is a non-democratic monarchy.
The USA is a democratic republic.

What if the previous text ended with a "." - now you've changed the text to read ".," - that's a bug right there!

Then you won't have that ugly apple marring the entire trailer

"'It's important to use your common name,' Google explains in its Google+ ground rules, 'so that the people you want to connect with can find you.'"

Bullshit, on the order of nazi propaganda. Google wants you to use your real name so they can make more money from me. The people I want to connect with me can easily find me, I mail them a alink - your policies are making people I DON'T want to connect with find me.

Or it would if I used G+ which I won't. But you've lost your way greedy google.

"This is Slashdot and nobody seems to have done a simple USPTO search!"

Because we use Google, not some weirdo search thing!

"Pushing a heavy ship up on the ice to crush it and thus break it may be efficient, but is hardly the only way to break ice, and probably not the most efficient all things considered."

No no, the better way is the American way: Release a lot of crap into the stratosphere heating up the planet and getting rid of all the ice at once by melting it! ;-)

But on a computer screen? Naa. Waste of time.

Now what if there was a way for the device to download ads without charging it to you?

That could be made.
(And would quickly be hacked, oh dear :)

Don't buy it

"I will teach my kids whatever I want to teach them."

And that is the problem. Just because you are able to have offspring (which all animals are) doesn't mean you are a good teacher.
Most wars and death and destruction came about because the children were indoctrinated by their parents and then grew up with those beliefs.

"A belief in god does not have to make you stupid. "

But it does, unless you believe out of fear of living without someone to help you in the afterlife.

"There are radicals on BOTH sides of the issue and they (i.e. YOU) are the problem."

Nonsense. Religion is the problem for the planet.
But don't you worry, there are so many scared people on the planet that religion will probably win.

Or you are really bad at your jobs and just rationalize what you do, like this unprovable supernatural thing in the sky you worship.

Its not a question of "coding for 2.x" - its a question of being compatible. The early version of Android were very fully formed, almost all of the fluff added later were in the interface (*).

If someone is making a new app they need to take a look at if they NEED 4.x - most won't - they can make their apps with the features available in earlier version of Android.

"Angry Birds" only REQUIRES version 1.6 - but is compatible with all later versions of Android.

The "must have latest version" is mostly tech pundit circle jerking.

(*notice i say "almost all" meaning not all, learn to read before flaming)

So you are poor and broke and who exactly are you blaming for that? Not yourself apparently.

The market is growing even if you are begging on a corner.