No matter what you think of the Cloud, you have resilient cloud like Amazon that goes away sometimes, or you can have cloud like Everpix, that refused to give me my pix after they went to price model and told me “screw you” and is about to go away forever.

Nothing is permanent. Eventually some natural disaster is going to make a huge chunk of data away for services that are not geographically redundant.

In China, the maps should show Taiwan as a province of China.
In the rest of the civilized world, including Taiwan, the maps should show Taiwan as its own entity.

Gosh you're right. There's no software that ships with critical bugs these days.

So are you of the Android bigots, Blackberry morons, or Windows ignorantly hopeful?

They are only exceptional in the number of their own people they have killed in their history. And with all his bluster about great Russian history, I do very much tie Putin into that part of their history. They’re not fooling anyone with their faux peace blabber. They just one to keep one more client madman on his throne. Unfortunately, as there are no good options in Syria that do not involve

        a) killing the wrong side
        b) staying home and watching the carnage
        c) killing everyone

Russian’s entertaining stupidity is just one of those three options. Taking away Syrians chemical weapons will just be like holding the bully’s gun while he knifes his victim to death.

Or unfair to assume that this phone service is really nothing more than two cups connected by a string, which everyone stands in line for their 5 minutes, primarily to receive a ransom call about or pay a ransom for their relatives kidnapped by a cartel.

He’s right for the same reason that private business has never opened Antarctica. It’s not as safe and cheap as taking a bus across town.
That is not to say we should not explore, but exploration has always been backed by military and governments because of funding. It’s one thing to kickstart and get a balloon up into near-space, but completely another to get out of our neighborhood of the solar system.

This was my comment back in 2002 about Star/Open Office
http://www.computerworld.com/news/2002/story/0,11280,73896,00.html

Gore is trying to be the next Tesla. Excuse me while I use by Gorebook Pro to get on the Gorenet and buy some more of these Gore carbon credits to power up my house before Hurricane Albert hits us at category 28.25.

Using Category for hurricanes is as useless that fucking red-orange-yellow-green terror alert from the early-to-mid 00s. Why don't we recognize that having a category 2 to cover range of 3 mph is patently ridiculous.
Just measure the hurricane by how fast the winds are! 250 mph winds? That sounds fucking fast! I'd better get inside!

Also can't we just agree that Al Gore should be wearing white paint on his face, a plastic red nose that honks when you squeeze it, and rainbow hair? Or are we insulting circus performers by calling him a clown? Nothing like live TV to prove what an idiot Al Gore is. He's becoming borderline Dan Quayle!

Leather.

Office 365 isn’t cheap but it has SkyDrive Pro included, which is protected by multiple U.S. data centers, and is only in the U.S.

That would be too obvious. Last sentence below seems to have some importance:

“The interglacials and glacials coincide with cyclic changes in the Earth's orbit. Three orbital variations contribute to interglacials. The first is a change in the Earth's orbit around the sun, or eccentricity. The second is a shift in the tilt of the Earth's axis, the obliquity. The third is precession, or wobbling motion of Earth's axis.[1] Warm summers in the northern hemisphere occur when that hemisphere is tilted toward the sun and the Earth is nearest the sun in its elliptical orbit. Cool summers occur when the Earth is farthest from the sun during that season. These effects are more pronounced when the eccentricity of the orbit is large. When the obliquity is large, seasonal changes are more extreme."

Not for most people. Receptionists need phones are their desk only because it is tied to a place, but most office workers do not.
I forward my desk phone and blackberry to my iPhone. I still don't get enough calls to even approach my plan limit, since most calls are during the day and cell to cell. I'd really be happy if they could take the physical phone away and just keep the extension forwarded.

Actually, what he was trying to say was "you won't believe what a low bar I've set for what I now find acceptable."

You've been watching too many movies.