I would say the right to use a nickname protects your freedom of speech a lot. Especially in connection with services like facebook.
Also I don't see why anyone except the bears should have a right to their arms.

Id Software released several training simulations with this topic quite a while ago. I guess them to be at the very least as enlightening as Mr. Cooper.

Looking back onto their actions, recording the background hum for 7 years is only slightly creepy. They can do worse.

Don't eat the "white" snow then?

So for some people this might actually offer some improvement over the usual lump of coal.

Ah the good old days of MS bashing...

Actually iPhones and many other gadgets are often cheaper in the US than in Europe.

And what would this button do 99.5% of it's time instead of wasting space and being a butt dial waiting to happen?

Well officially since 1893 and the Mendenhall order http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units

Yeah, but you shouldn't mess up peoples pet theories by providing contrary facts.

112 is used because 111 could be dialed by accident (hanging up a few times) on old pulse dial phones.

The point is with a mobile phone you sometimes don't know which network you'll be connecting to. It might even be a foreign network if you're near a boarder. This works nicely and in a standard way (it might not be your phone you're using) with a common number (or set of numbers). Otherwise you would need an "Emergency" Icon (which language) or button on the phone, that had to be unremovable, prominent and not to easily buttdialable.
In my opinion having a one or two emergency numbers to call is the best solution.

Back in the old days some countries used 111, which could very easily dialed accidentally by clicking the receiver contact a few times (rotary pulse dial phones).

So... your (mom's) collective basements where flooded?

I still remember the sound of tortured souls my 9dot printer made when he tried to print all black.