"who's funding them"
Qatar. And their feud with Assad possibly dictates the Syria coverage. But there's no other money in the game. It's one family funding the operation from their oil-wealth. Not a plethora of commercial interests like Fox "News"

Given the religious views of Iran's populous and the amount of Arabs in Israel and Palestine I would hazard the guess that Iran would abstain from contaminating the sacred sites of Islam in Jerusalem with nuclear fallout.

Al Jazeera English is one of the most respected and most neutral networks in the world. Yeah, they are biased about Qatar and Syria (everybody knows that). But Al Gore didn't sell his TV Station to a Jihadist Network. It is a well respected organization that has guests like Neil de Grasse Thyson or Gary Johnson (which are not known for supporting Anti-Americanism).

Last year in an IAEA report they said that iran doesn't refine its uranium to weapon's grade but to a metallic form that can be used in reactors but can not be refined further. Now Aljazeera writes: The IAEA's report showed "no evidence of diversion of material and nuclear activities towards military purposes,"
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/02/2013221224353882956.html

It seems that the IAEA has in all their reports strong indications that the nuclear program is peaceful. So IAEA officials have been denied access to military installations which are not covered by the Nuclear non proliferation treaty. And even then, Iran has allowed inspections at a later date even though the IAEA has no right to do so (it wouldn't have in any other nation as well).
I have the distinct feeling that western media is very biased. But it was with Iraq's WMDs (or lack thereof) as well.

So even in one of the oldest and most conservative institutions in the world, the black guy's votes carry as much weight as the white guys' and they aren't repressed in any way and can post their ballot in a timely fashion?

Since this is now the 7th member of the ruling coalition that has been stripped of his or her title (beginning with defence minister Von Guttenberg), something like that seems like non-news to Germans like me.

it's how you mass-extinct with it.

Maybe we should all just start playing sarcastaball. That will be much safer.

So is his company then going the way of ReiserFS?

Even if it were all publicity, I must say, that I am impressed. Look what every other politician would do for some PR like that. Everybody can go around kissing babies. Doesn't matter what you think of him, but you have to commend his commitment.

If I remember correctly, there is this one voting district in Bavaria with about 80 elegible voters who are usually done counting about 20 minutes after polls closed (the smallest voting district has 12 people but usually they are about 2000) and they get the record for fastest tally every time. Don't know how the 12-people-district manages to screw that up, but anyways

You do know that most of our electronic devices rely on electrons colliding with stuff?!

Would have suggested that right away but didn't know whether it packs enough bang.

As far as I know, you could put a linux-box there with pulseaudio and make the input device network-available. You could record then with any pulseaudio-system anywhere.

We've seen companies opening up in the past and often they started closing down again after time. Let us hope they stay open and even more, let us hope it works for them from a business perspective, so that other companies may follow.
As long as the guys in the suits think they make more money by closing down, we still have a problem.