According to the Beeb.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13343600

Gnu phone anyone ?

All that education wasted on what ...to be asking such trivial question.

A bit disengenuous about ease ...your bank/credit card will typically authenticate you by asking for your zip code, address, and your SSN#

Do you want to give google all this info ?

If yes then i agree with you ...if no then a bank and a email provider should not be considered as the same kind of beast

By people: all individuals in the US do you love, including all people from Georgia to Alaska, Hawaii to Virgin Islands ?

Then you love your government as they are run by individuals (the federal and state governments must be tens of millions of people including politicians).

But you say you hate government ...then you are inconsistent or illogical.

I am sure if you dropped that DVD of snow-leopard it would have worked out of the box...oh wait that hardware is no longer supported !
Aren't you glad you have a community that gave you OS/software that still works for your older hardware (albeit be cranky)?

If you enter a cublcle and the machine tell the security guy what is wrong...
What is it that needs human to look over a picture that cannot be automated ?

This is an unfair comparison ..there is not much you can do with a cell phone connectivity apart from talking
where as a knife is used in other situations that saving and removing life. E.g making salsa etc

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Yes I know Colbert uses his ipad or iphone for making salsa !

zaReason for example.

That is why linux is not going to get into mainstream desktop as every thing you want to change you have to
edit some mysterious files...oh wait ..

The 2 parties have primary goals is to oppose whatever the other proposes...except for going to war !

I am sure majority of American voters (of the time) would have opposed civil rights law or abolishing slavery or vote/equality for women.
That is why referendum on every major decision is a bad idea.
You vote for what you think is the best leaders and let them make decision popular or unpopular and kick them out if you want
later...i think that is better than making decision by popular acceptance which would mean daily electioneering already its terrible every 2 years.

Run for power if you think you'd do a better job than is being done. But the question is: ow come every libertarian or small govt person that gets into power morphs into yet another protect wall street person ? Is Wall St the center of liberterianism ?

I believe the usage is way higher in developing countries. Some universities in Brazil for example has been using openoffice in
all administrative offices for 8 years or so.

There are more computer users outside developed nations now than in it.

Why not one for Linux or Mac too....Why compete on your turf only ?

Every child in Uruguay has one

Thus Uruguay has 3 children only !

Not closing my curtain allow you to see in my house but that its not ethical (may be legal still though)
  to put a video camera and record the going on