France and Italy != "most of Europe"

Most European nations have decent laws around job safety. Firing employees is not usually a problem at all, unless:
- mass firings often require some form of "social plan" (i.e. help them a bit getting a new job)
- it's obviously abusive, as in this case

Also not entirely sure what you mean about innovation, development and other "important functions" not working well in Europe, as there are almost always European nations that perform better than the US around innovation, education, stability, credit ratings, GDP per capita, etc.

As far as I know, almost every single section of any legal text by Facebook violates one or more laws in the EU and other European countries and are thus completely irrelevant (ignorig the fact that at least in my country, sections like this would most certainly also be considered as unexpected and therefore abusive, making them legally irrelevant).

Hence, why care?
Unless you're American, that is.

Not sure what you mean with "unskippable ads", unless that's a US thing. I own maybe 200 blu-rays and not a single one of them has unskippable ads (on PS3). Yes, there's often an unskippable copyright warning texts, but those of them (maybe 5-10%) that automatically start some trailers at the beginning always have them skippable.

... but on my counting, the result is not *more* jobs, but simply *more interesting* ones.

In order to control any RC device like a car or some multi-copter even remotely professionally you need precise controllers, reliable connectivity and low latency, all of which any iOS/Android touch devices seriously lack, by design.

Even intermediate hobbyist senders (actually bidirectional these days for telemetry, FPV etc.) have precise and adjustable mechanical contol sticks, come with specialized circuits to bypass the controller's CPU where low latency is of importance and use frequency hopping RC for more reliability and to allow hundreds of pilots in a close range.

Isn't drug and alcohol use much less liberal in the USA than in these countries?

There's no such thing as WP6.5. There was Windows Mobile 6, and there is Windows Phone 7, but they have less in common than Mac OS X and Windows 7.

Almost all allow you to specify a different email address on every website though. I personally do that, for all kind of reasons. This also works fine with OpenID, as long as your provider allows you to configure it such that it does not provide any email address (afaik doesn't work with Google) - you're then usually asked for your email address after the first login to complete the profile, if needed.

Although BrowserID allows multiple email address, it looks like this workflow wouldn't work well in practice (with hundreds of aliases) - since instead of a neutral claim as in OpenID (which the site then maps to your profile there) you're forced to use an email address as claim instead.

An email address is exactly what I do NOT want to provide to every second website where I just need some simple customization/profile. And where I do provide an email address, I always use a unique address (essentially allows me both automatic organization into folders but also to get less than 1-2 spam mail per year, simplify by blacklisting aliases which either leaked or obviously have been sold to some spammer (happens usually about a year after some web service/sites shuts down)). This works very well with OpenID, at least with decent neutral providers.

But then I guess BrowserID does not primarily target tech people...

By that definition, the USA would be declaring war on the rest of the world if it would indeed enforce SOPA (including the DNS parts).

More details (but not more content):

Update 7.10.8107.79 indeed "Fixes a Google mail syncing issue."

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsphone/en-us/howto/wp7/basics/update-history.aspx

Can't be very serious. I have multiple gmail accounts configured on my WP7.5 and never even heard there is supposed to be an issue with gmail, even though I do follow WP7 news actively enough.

A quick google search does indeed reveal some people having issues around the end of 2010, or something related to syncing with google accounts without gmail (i.e. bound to some other email address).

It's actually not that popular in Microsoft projects either. Even Microsoft itself doesn't really use them, their recent open source projects mostly use the Apache license.

No, you can't even load the website outside of US: "We're sorry. Google Music is currently only available in the United States"

The majority of people, in general, are not as stupid as you may think (usually only about a third of them).

Looking at currently established direct 100% democracies, most of them:
* agree (democratically) to limit their own rights to put human rights on top (other than say the US that doesn't really care about them)
* often priorize education very highly (as opposed to e.g. military expenses)
* are politically very stable (middle ground, instead of back and forth between extreme positions)
* are economically very stable (even these days)
* have almost no strikes
* sometimes even agree to increase taxes (yes, they can essentially vote on how much taxes they want to pay)
* have low unemployment rates
* do not start any wars or threat other countries (seek diplomatic solutions and cooperation instead)