Armor, Armour, Armer all all pronounced the same way. Language relates to the spoken word, how it is spelled is up to the intellectuals and academicians. Spelling makes not difference in language. Which is why it surprises me that a symbol that has no unpronounceable is included in this tongue in cheek policing of the language.

Why, welcome to Slashdot, Gov. Palin... what a surprise, nay: honour to have you posting here!

"The annoying part has been the attitude of almost all occasions I've basically felt that arrogance of "YOU ARE NOTHING, WHY THE HELL SHOULD I LET YOU IN, you pitiful European".

Seconded (or thirded, fourth'd, whatever, didn't bother to read the other replys). What really killed me was my last entry, when the DHS officer spoke worse english than I do (a feat quite hard to accomplish). The whole process feels almost designed to put you off visiting the USA. I mean, they had these sort of motivational posters everywhere, telling the DHS-personnell that they were something like "the calling card of America" (paraphrased) since they would be the first contact any visitor has with the USA. The general feeling of annoyance and unpleasentness, however, was so deep and felt so institutionalized, that I've come to believe it's being done on purpose, and the posters are some kind of cynical joke.

Yes, that's where I was starting from: when you have a 3-finger/scrollwheel-mouse connected to your mac, then obviosly you would use the middle button/scrollwheel of the mouse.(*) In the absence of any external pointy-clicky-rodents you use the trackpad (with or without modifier keys, see above.)

(*) actually... that depends... sometimes while typing I use the trackpd even with a mouse connected, just because it's nearer the keyboard. same thing when I've got an external keyboard and a mouse connected: I then often use the mouse for a mouse and the trackpad for gestures.

"Middle-Click" is [command]-click (i.e.: hold the [cmd]-Key as a modifier while clicking. [cmd] on a Mac-Keyboard is like the [Win]-key on a... well Windows-Keyboard. Very useful, since the default setting for most web browsers on a Mac for a "Middle-" or "Scroll-Wheel-Klick" is to open a link in a new window or tab. You could achieve the same by Two-Finger-clicking on the touchpad (that's like a Right-Click) and choose "Open link in new window/tab" from the context-menue, but [cmd]-click obviously is much faster.

Haven't you seen those X-rays of things people ...erm "accidentally" got stuck up their butt?

You're insured on your way to and from work.