What is the advantage of this over DLNA/UPnP? I get the streaming of Netflix, etc, but why wouldn't this be possible using DLNA? Why not use standards that are already established and work on most televisions bought in the past couple of years?

That would be why the rail is usually grade separated at that speed, i.e. roads run under or over the tracks. Hell, even mainlines here in Sweden are mostly grade-separated, and where they are not there are systems in place to detect obstacles and stop the train before the train driver can physically see the obstruction. And we only have trains running 200 kph, you can be pretty sure that railways that allow trains to run at over 300 kph are entirely grade separated.

I guess it's all a matter of how much in terms of for instance working rights already exist within a nation. My concern with the EU is rather that it erodes our working rights, civil liberties and environmental regulations. For instance the Laval judgement prohibiting unions from interfering with the ongoing exploitation of EU citizens working in our country and the subsequent social dumping: in my view everyone who works in Sweden should have the same rights to a decent wage, vacation, union representation, etc, but this is not the opinion of the EU, they want to create a subclass of people who don't have the same rights as everyone else simply because they are not citizens of this country. It's the neoliberals who are in control of the EU, they have no interest in helping you maintain your workers rights.

What nation would search a diplomatic aircraft, with a friendly foreign president to boot, simply in order to grant asylum to a dissident who may or may not be on that plane, on his way to a nation where would have been granted asylum already? Seems disingenuous to say the least..

Tech workers are unionized in probably most of Europe, that doesn't mean the jobs are outsourced. Even my job is unionized, and I'm a doctoral student, employed with a decent wage (increasing with the proportion of my degree completed from the equivalent of $46000 to $55000, renegotiated by the union every year or two) and six weeks vacation (minimum by law being 5 weeks) collectively bargained for by the union for university teachers which is part of a central organization for university educated workers.

Then, by your own logic, the most notorious slave owners are capitalists, who do in fact live off the labor of the working, middle, and even the non-capitalists (i.e. those who are wealthy but not so wealthy so as to be able to live off capital returns) in the upper class.

Unless we're talking heavy calculations here, doing them locally will likely drain less battery than a lengthy network request, especially over a laggy 3G network...

No, capitalism is not fundamentally "opposed" to government. Government is in fact required for capitalism to function in any kind of efficient manner. If not for the laws governing ownership, ownership would be reduced to the concept of "what you defend, you own", meaning capitalists would have to employ massive armies to protect "their" property, both from rival capitalists and from the people who live or work there.

Capitalism does not require private ownership, e.g. in state capitalism, the state owns the means of production, but the state is not controlled by the working class as it would in the case of Socialism with state ownership. (The difference between capitalism and socialism, if you did not read up on basic political theory, is where the ownership of the means of production lies, with the few (capitalists, whether private or state) as in the case of capitalism or with the people as in the case of socialism (whether by a worker-controlled state or cooperatively by the workers of the particular establishment, to mention only two models))

Also, don't confuse the capitalist economic system with the ideologies advocating keeping such a system, e.g. Liberalism. Capitalism in itself cannot be "opposed" to something, it is an economic system, not an ideology.

Both Anarchist and Libertarian are very old terms, it is only recently that the term "Libertarian" has been (in the US at least, not so much in the rest of the world with the exception of a few kids spending too much time in online forums abound with conspiracy nuts) associated with what are essentially Anarcho-capitalists.

We have the opposite problem in Sweden, we're saving and the debt is going down, the problem is that the right-wing government doesn't want to spend in bad times, it wants to save in both good and bad times and essentially hoard the money, meaning no major infrastructure investments which could be very useful right now with an unemployment rate of some 8% and a welfare system in shambles...

"BRAINPOWER" would be included in the "labor" category, just as physical labor is. What is with this idea that those of us who work with ideas do not labor? Of course we do, it's just in a different way from those who do physical labor. All forms of labor require some form of mental capacity, some more than others, but the amount of mental capacity required does not make it more or less labor.

The summary is of course adapted for American audiences with different definitions of many political terms than other parts of the world, but I would still like to offer my corrections of the political situation. The "Conservatives" mentioned are not conservatives, they are mostly liberals, ranging from a self-professed "liberal-conservative" party to a liberal party, a "social values" Christian party which is however very liberal in terms of economic politics nowadays, and a "Center party" (the name is a misnomer, the party has veered far to the right since its golden days). Personally I think the closest description of their collective politics is some type of neoliberal. The other "block", consisting of the Social Democrats, the Left Party and the Greens is not so homogeneous in terms of their political stances as the right-wing, the Social Democrats and the Greens are nowadays essentially liberals, not much difference from the government except for a few minor details, and the Left Party is the only socialist party and the only party that actually advocates something to the left of the status quo.

And regarding the actual topic, I'm not at all surprised, there is very little difference between the two "blocks" as a whole (the exception being the Left Party on the left and (in terms of issues related to a single issue) Sweden Democrats on the "populist" right) and people (unfortunately) mostly vote for purely superficial reasons like how they "percieve" a certain politician.

Last time I tried it, there was no hardware acceleration and no access to sensors though. Has that changed?

That would be pretty crazy. Actually I find this persona cult built up around the "founding fathers" in the US quite fascinating, even though these are people who lived in a time that is very different from ours and during very different conditions, some Americans still seem to have this obsession about what this founding father or that other one would have thought about a present-day issue, one they could likely not even comprehend. We have no equivalent in Sweden, I guess the closest to a "founding father" would be Gustaf Wasa who liberated Sweden from the Danish king in the 16th century, but noone in their right mind would, if given the chance, ask him for input on a present-day political issue or obsess about the religion he did or did not practice. Nor would they ask those who wrote any of the revisions of our constitution.

Like I said, in countries *not* inundated in gun violence.. London would be a more apt comparison to Chicago than Oslo though, and they manage without guns in their day-to-day work.