Then you can demonstrate one such statute.

No I won't take anthropomorphic climate change as an example, and you trying to assert it isn't science is no different than a creationist claiming evolution is a religion.

Like a sensible education in the sciences?

Frankly I think we all need strong military protection from Jeff Bezos.

The China of 2014 is moving as quickly as it can towards becoming a major military power, and let us not forget that China is a nuclear power, so the idea that even if Japan went all the way, amended its constitution and formed a fully fleshed armed forces with nuclear capability (and everyone already believes that Japan is already nuclear capable), that it would mean the imminent invasion of China.

China does not fear invasion, or anything like it. What it fears is that its own imperial ambitions will be completely constrained.

The militaristic Japan of the last century is a useful propaganda bogeyman for China, but as a real threat to anything but contested maritime boundaries, it doesn't exist.

There were no high level pleas for peace from Japan. Tojo and his government were of the opinion that Japan should go down in flames rather than surrender. And the Americans were likely concerned about the Soviets as well. A quick end to the war and surrender to the US was far preferable to what happened in Central and Eastern Europe. In the end the Soviets did seize some Japanese territory, and if the land invasion had gone ahead, at least some portion of the main islands would have ended up in the USSR's hands.

Oh come on. The Japan of 2014 is not the Japan of 1945. Virtually everyone from that generation is dead or beyond any political influence. I have some issues with Japan over its acceptance of some its activities during its empire days, but all in all, it has been a well behaved member of the international community and one of the West's most important Asian allies. I doubt it even wants to have nuclear weapons, but considering the way China has been behaving of late, any prudent Japanese government is going to want to make it clear that it's lack of nuclear deterrent is due to the decision not to have one, and not because of any technical difficulties.

China cannot continue to poke its neighbors with sticks and not expect that those neighbors will not begin to ponder just how much longer they're going to be poked. Japan is a major industrial power, one of the wealthiest and most advanced nations on the planet, and if China doesn't want to feel threatened by Japan, then it needs to stop pushing buttons itself.

I think if Japan were sufficiently provoked, yes, I think they would build a nuclear bomb. I have a pretty good suspicion, considering Japans technical sophistication, that a nuclear weapons program would not be hard to achieve, and clearly China knows this.

Exactly. China's claims over disputed waters with its neighbors is creating the conditions in which those neighbors either cozy up to the US, or, in the case of a heavily industrialized and wealthy nation like Japan, begin to reconsider their position so far as military position and investment.

If your logic held, we'd all be running OS/2 right now, and Windows would be a distant memory of some flaky OS code-named Chicago all them years ago.

In reality, bugginess is irrelevant. What counts is acceptance and penetration, and in that vein, Android hasn't just beaten BB, it's literally wiped it off the map.

Yes, I know QNX shows up in some embedded hardware (which was what it was designed for the in the first place), but as a mainstream smartdevice OS it is now officially a failure.

And honestly, I have two Android devices (Nexus 7 2012 edition and Nexut 5). Yeah, every once in a while an app burps, but I have no major stability issues that I can think of. Not only that, if I don't like Google's version of Android, there's always Cyanogenmod (though the devices work so well I have no desire to go that route).

Frankly, I think the day of the keyboard on a phone is gone. Yes, there are a few stalwarts left that prefer it to touch screen, but they are a shrinking group. Android manufacturers aren't interested in manufacturing phones with keyboards because they'd end up like Q10, hundreds of thousands of units taking up space in warehouses.

The touchscreen won. I doubt in ten years there will be any keyboard phones to buy.

Can you define "popular" for me? Sales figures indicate they are a bit player that is even losing enterprise share. I see no indication of even a negligible uptick in sales in Canada or anywhere else. BB's value seems solely defined these days by its patent portfolio and secure messaging system. The hardware has been in a major decline for four or five years now, and shows absolutely no sign of recovery.

Yes, the Android subsystem in BB sucks.

Fantastic news.

I mention my Wikipedia activities in the "Other interests" section of my CV but I'm always worried that employers will misinterpret it as an offer to polish their image. With this rule change, if an employer does ask me to "Hey, since you know how this wiki thing works, can you correct some stuff?" I can say that I could but I'd have to declare it as being paid work.

That'll make them less interested, so I'm less likely to get put in that situation to begin with.

(Some other comments rubbished the idea because it won't get 100% compliance but they're missing the point. Improvement is improvement.)

Whether its malice, incompetence or some other reason, the fact is that crap is being sold under their name. Better, to my mind, to simply not manufacture until supply chain issues are resolved than to try to put lipstick on a pig.