Something tells me, that U.S. might have more information about E.U. citizens and stuff, than E.U. governments have.

Well, why not Russia then? They would LOVE to know about Prism as much as possible, as they would love to create something like that, and I guess they could be quite generous. Besides, there might be a shortcut from China to Russia.

And by the way, this reminds me, that China has human-powered Prism for a few years now, and Russia has Echelon-like SORM system for 13 years as well. The more I think about it the more suspicious I become about his true reasons. Besides, who is the enemy of my enemy?

I guess they would assure you, that what they do (espionage) is perfectly "reasonable", which makes your argument "invalid".

Salvarsan was introduced in 20th century, 30 years before penicillin. He was speaking about pre-1900s, which means - before 20th century.

Also, by definition, AIDS is a disease, caused by infection.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aids

It doesn't matter how many of them will ever use Pi. But it's the name of the Linux distribution. Naming official distribution this way makes it harder for overall Linux success. Linux user won't say that Windows is gay anymore. Because you know what? Pidora Linux! (translation from Russian: Linux of the faggot).

My comment was about "obvious choice", which apparently wasn't obvious for major players in the market. Nowhere I implied that it can only be achieved with one, and not any other system. In my opinion, OS is irrelevant.

Just for your information, the Guinness, Carlsberg, Budweiser and a few others (all belong to the same owner) automation is controlled using Windows.
Actually, I am posting this from Guinness factory in Dublin.

Of course. And see large banners like "juicy burgers just over there, LOOK!" - and here comes the interactive banner...
And then - hacked glasses... Showing porn to all glasses-wearing crowd in subway... Phew, so many possibilities!

According to some "close to Microsoft" opinions, Microsoft is offering software companies their own specialists "for free", only to create wow-applications which would convince big customers to upgrade to Windows 8. But apparently it's not going to happen any time soon. Here's the article, anyway: http://kirsanov.net/post/2012/09/17/The-Future-of-Windows-8.aspx

You gave students iPads and thought that this is e-Learning? And now, when this tactics obviously failed, you are blaming e-Learning for your own failure.

For e-Learning to succeed, you need to have what is called LMS, or Learning Management System. e-Book is not e-Learning, iPad is neither. It's much more complex solution which has to be done right and tested on small group of best students before implemented in mass.

This article explains much better what e-Learning is: http://www.kirsanov.net/post/2011/12/23/Why-e-Learning-Is-Better.aspx

So, as you can see, it has many duties in the past.

Nope. Many people from new EU countries, such as Latvia, Poland and Lithuania, are coming to UK to claim financial aid. They claim they were living in UK for required amount of time (although they came to UK the same day they had interview). No forced labor.

Besides, if you are IT specialist, you shall not fear forced labor - it's easier to find job normal way. I think the hero of the article just dumb.

Indeed. Although the future of Silverlight is uncertain and I wouldn't define it as something you definitely should learn as windows web developer, I still consider writing OOB applications using it and don't think they are in danger next 5 years or so.

Indeed. That's why I hope they won't do that in final release. It appears that WinRT and Metro are pointing at failure and it's worrying to see how easily they kill what was promoted so much. Silverlight, for example.

Yes, it is. Just a GUI.