The one where online privacy and intellectual property rights are the most important issues.

I subvocalize exactly like you do. However, I think the distinction made by the article may be less than what you're asserting. Even though I hear words in my head, I *don't* process letters or syllables within a given word. I read an entire word at a time, recognize that word, and then hear it. The individual letters and syllables never play a role unless the word isn't familiar. I still recognize words based on shape; I just do so one word at a time and with an internal vocalization.

I'm an auditory person. I mentally "hear" every word as if someone is speaking. It happens more quickly than people are generally capable of speaking, but I still run the mental auditory pathway for every word. It's simply how I'm accustomed to processing written text, and how I remember that text most easily. Coincidentally, it also means that I often can't remember if read a piece of information or heard it in an audio file or video.

While not politically correct, I find this to be an absolutely true phenomenon.

Most fonts are about the same shape, except for fonts which mimic cursive (at least in English). The style and feel are different, but the shapes stay largely unchanged.

For me, it explains why it takes me longer to read actual text in fixed width fonts, and why I often forget that variable names in my programs also happen to be English words.

And it's not reading ability, it's reading speed, which I'd be hesitant to trust self-assessment on with metrics.

Watch the fucking video. This isn't spanking. This is abuse. I was spanked as a child. It made me a better child. What never happened, though, was repeated whipping over my entire body after I was screaming in submission. He beats her. She screams and cries. Then he beats her more. Then he yells at her, cursing. Then he beats her more. She screams. He beats her more. If you think the fathers behavior is ok in this video, then you are lower than scum.

Before you go all chicken little on nuclear power, find out how much 137CS "a large fraction" actually is. In my location in North America, the local nuclear experts saw a spike in Cesium equivalent to approximately one half of one banana.

Out of curiosity: are you advocating fleeing the country as a means of theft, or are you simply saying that that is what some people do?

Stallman wants exactly one thing: visbility for FOSS. He doesn't care about anything else. So if he has to make some pseudo-controversial statement about a generally well-liked public figure in order to get some air time, he will. Personally, I elect to pay him little attention.

More than the collateral damage you cause.

You talk like you're in the service, and I respect that and you for it. However, it doesn't mean that the greater good is served by wars that kill as many or more people than the situation that caused them.

A guy who walked on the moon thinks manned space flight is a good idea. Full story at 11.

In all honesty, manned space flight makes no sense right now, as it's not something that can be done half-assed. With the current state of American finances (and the petty squabbling surrounding it) , NASA will never get the investment they need to put a human anywhere that matters. Robotic and satellite exploration, however, is not out of reach at all. We need to do more of, and we need to invest more in it if we (the US) are ever going to maintain some innovative power going forward. Space exploration is the right thing to do, but we don't yet have the knowledge or technology to make meaningful manned missions.

The difference that when IE is bundled with the operating system and you don't like it, it's difficult, time consuming, and possibly expensive to choose a new operating system. Alternatives in the general desktop market to Windows are either expensive (Apple) or difficult (*nix) for average users (especially before more friendly distros like Ubuntu).

Alternatives to Google's products are plentiful, easy to find, and largely free. Bing, Yahoo, Ask, etc. All you have to do is redirect your browser. You can even use Google to find them. There is a certain amount of lock-in to an operating system. There is almost none to a website.

Caring is a product of risk. Risk is, by definition, a probability and a cost. In the case of open vs. closed software on my phone, the cost of the worst problems associated open software are approximately equal (open source malware on Android can steal my information just as easily as Google can). The probability that I'll experience any problem at all is HUGELY greater on open software (incompatibilities, slowdowns, and most commonly unintuitive, obtuse configuration).

Overall, it means that the risk of closed source software is the same or less than open alternatives. You can be condescending all you want, but "Most People" figured this out while enjoying their lives watching sports and sitcoms, while you've spent hours of effort researching and defending an ideological stance that has no evidence of significant impact in the world where actual people live. Eventually you'll find that "most people" are actually a lot more intelligent than you think they are, and they're laughing behind your back while you go on caring about inane shit that doesn't matter.

--Disclosure--
I own an Android phone because I like the features and price.

Watch this video

Choice and corresponding competition drive innovation, which creates better products for users. The current browser market is a great example of this, where Chrome/Firefox/IE (and Opera and Safari to some extent) compete fiercely for market share and are thus required to make compelling improvements for users.

Having a multitude of choices does have real downsides, though. When you have these choices, you're never really sure you made the right one. KDE/Gnome etc. have this problem, where users switch back and forth because of various updates/changes/features that they do or don't like at any given time. Because they flip, they aren't confident that they are getting the best experience, which degrades the entire experience of using the OS.