Actually, Saturn also has a moon that is larger than Earth's Moon, Titan. Albeit the largest moon of Neptune, Triton, misses the size of Earth's Moon by about 200 km of radius.

It is not as it doesn't dominate its orbit around the Sun (this orbit is dominated by Earth).

Oh, Slashdot ate my degree sign.

The only planet whose north pole is not on the same side of the Ecliptic as the Earth's north pole is Uranus. In Uranus' case, the north pole is nearly in the Ecliptic itself, tilted at 98. All the other planets have their rotation axis (axial tilt) either nearly vertical to their orbit plane (e.g. Mercury, Venus, Jupiter), or tilted at about 20-30 (Earth, Mars, Saturn, Neptune).

The company I work for is considering to outsource their service division to IBM...

The human as a species is not stabile in any biological sense. To the contrary, it seems as if the genetic drift within the human genome has sped up considerably in the last 5,000 years.

The parents are still responsible for their own child, and thus still liable for grievous bodily harm - this time against their own child.

Lets put it thus: The parents can choose to not vaccinate their children, but if one child who is often in contact with the non-vaccinated children gets an infection the vaccination protects against, the parents are liable for grievous bodily harm.

It does insofar as the public keys of the intended receiver and the actual receiver don't match, and thus the actual receiver gets nothing but encrypted gibberish, thus no data is leaked.

The first research in food energy (and thus the formula of calories in - calories out) are much older and date back to the end of the 19th century, and much research was done already 60 years ago, for instance in [Wishnofsky, M. Caloric Equivalents of Gained or Lost Weight. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, (1958).]

... which means that the Raspberry Pi would have to be 15-30% more expensive. Yes, $5 does not look much in absolute terms, but compared to a $35 base price, it's a huge amount. If an educational society orders 1000 pts of them, $5000 makes a big dent in a tight budget.

The Raspberry Pi has the hardware to be very cheap while still being able to connect to a general lab setup and powerful enough for a lot of nice little projects.

That's not what quotation marks were invented for. And yes, his middle name is Hussein. So what? The first name of the world best track and field runner is Usain, which is Hussein with a different spelling. Do you also write him "Usain" Bolt?

What "leading climate researchers" said this? Citations needed. Did you hear this on Fox News, or are you just making it up?

Rising CO2 levels and climate change are politically controversial only because the fossil carbon industry hired a bunch of PR firms to sow public doubt. Who needs science, when industry PR is gospel?

You are argueing as if it was either existing ISPs or a government-run (municipal) ISP. Why can't they coexist? That's what happens here around. I can get the Internet connection from the local utility (which is basicly a municipal ISP), I can get it from the former telco monopolist, or I can get it from numerous other privately owned ISPs, of which some are just resellers of lines of others.

What we have is only the governmental mandate that an ISP with a local monopoly of lines has to offer capacity on the last mile to other ISPs in a non-discriminatory manner. That's all. Thus about every ISP is potentially able to offer his product everywhere. If he is not present with its own lines, they can be rented from the local monopolist or quasi-monopolist. Problem solved.

If you get hold of a list of robocallers, you could put something similar up yourself with Asterisk or any other of the free phone switch software packages.