Nope. The US problem is that you have built all your cities for cars instead of for people. Rural areas are about the same in any western country, you will need a car for some things. I live in Sweden and in the countryside most people need cars to get around as well. Our cities however are built for people, with sidewalks, bicycle lanes and decent public transport.

Having a car engine designed for gas mileage instead of as a penis extension also helps a lot with gas costs. I was in the US last summer and drove around the south with my brother. The car was a small, normal car but it used at least 1.1 litre of gas per 10 km. A comparable car in Europe uses something like 0,6-0,7 litres per 10 km. Plenty of cars are avilable over here that use 0,4-0,5 litres per 10 km, and no, they arent just Priuses.

...except for seismic events when faults slip due to increased lubrication, contamination of groundwater and increased hydrocarbon emissions from the fracking sites. But I guess you can hand out disposable dust masks and BRITA water filters. Problem solved ?

Meh, accidental AC The iPad is already a market leader and theres keyboards available for it if you want the laptoppy thing. ARM MacBook makes total sense, the MacBook Air has two main selling points : small and pretty. ARM lets you go even smaller and still have battery life enough. Noone buys a MacBook air for its raw numbercrunching potential anyways.

You have no clue. The Swedish government gives almost 400 million SEK to Cambodia because it is run by the Illuminati and they want anakata for a ritual sacrifice. The sacrifice will take place on december 21st at Angkor Wat and stave off the end off the world as prophesied by the mayans. See, I just constructed a news story with equal truth content based on the same figures. Which one do you prefer ?

Through a combination of his inability to control his penis and lack of judgment Mr Assange has sentenced himself to a life in Ecuador. I think that probably qualifies as cruel and unusual punishment for a narcissist like him. It must have been a harsh awakening when he found out that the laws of both Sweden and the UK applied even to Internet celebrities.

Just watch some Star Trek TNG episodes and see everyone use thin and flat touchscreen computing devices with rounded corners.

Protecting everybody ? You mean protecting american interests. I dont see any mentions of american soldiers intervening in any african conflicts, except of course in northeast africa where oil has been found...

Exactly. As for what hes accused of, think of it this way : Having protected casual sex is not such a big thing. Having casual sex without a condom is. The fact that Assange is the kind of guy that would run and hide in an Ecuadorian embassy is why Interpol are involved in the first place. Assange has put pride in the fact that he has no fixed address and that he is "on the run", that in itself would make any prosecutor in any country reach for an international warrant.

Assange is a guy who, along with a few other people, had this great idea of leveraging the Streisand effect into a tool for revealing things governments do not want publicly known. Public outrage at things that governments didnt want known ensued and Assanges ego eventually reached critical mass and imploded into a singularity. As with all singularitys one cannot see the singularity itself, but the accretion disc made up from paranoia, bullshit and general delusions of personal grandure is quite visible even at astronomical distances.

Or, most criminals actually have some morals/smarts. Its a big step from robbing someones house to killing every potential witness. Comitting crimes does not automatically make you a homicidal maniac, guns or no guns.

OTOH, if Microsoft was openly working against Android phones and for instance obstructing their use they would have the antitrust people up their ass really quick. Repeat offenders tend to go to the top of the suspect list.

Amen, brother.

It obviously did since youre capable of trolling the internets with impunity...

Yes. Everyone in Sweden is assigned to one of these camps when they turn four and spend the next sixteen years there. Thats why Sweden is such a model nation. Oh, and we read from "Das Kapital" and the "Communist Manifesto" every morning to properly indoctrinate our citizens.