"Look kids, that's how daddy and I made you!"

Cell phone vs. landline is a comparison of completely different things (ever tried carrying around your landline phone to the supermarket and calling home to ask if there was anything else you should buy but might have forgotten to put on the shopping list?) whereas a new computer is just that: A new version of something you already have.
And I think that indeed most (non-technical) people just want to keep using their computer the way they did without having to learn new stuff.

This solve media captcha example accepted "asrgtvfj" as well and that doesn't mean anything in any language as far as I know.
Useless.

Another thing that came to my mind while reading the BBC article linked to by the Yahoo article in TFS (yeah, I actually read all that stuff, I must be new here) is the fact that while many people with non-english native language may be comfortable reading articles in english (maybe sometimes using Google translator or some other stuff) but not necessarily be able to easily answer the question, even if they knew the brand.
The "Ad-CAPTCHA" in question (image) asks to describe the brand "dyson". A valid answer would probably be "vacuum cleaner". Would the system accept "Staubsauger" (German for vacuum cleaner, actual meaning: "dust sucker") as well?

The point was, I think, "level a city". For doing that, you need a really "big bang". Things that have mushroom clouds as a byproduct help with that.

I think your analogy has its flaws, as has been pointed out already by others, but I had a great laugh when thinking about apple users as 'middle-class soccer mom types'.
Thanks for that!

They know it well and appreciate it. They actually changed the Hagia Sophia from being a mosque (which it became after the turkish conquest) to a museum (entry fee ~12EUR, quite some money should come in that way, I would guess).
Some turkish dude in Austria is another story that has nothing to do with what the people in Istanbul think about the Hagia Sophia.

Ernst Strasser, Austrian (former) MEP is just on trial for offering to sell his influence for EUR 100.000,-
Problem is, the so-called lobbyists where british journalists.
There are fine videos on youtube (he actually speaks english, ahem, sort of) as well, try to spill not your coffee though.

Maybe, but the remaining 1% would at least have the option.

of your phone, you just dump it into the shredder?
Will the phones then end up as confetti?

the mice are blocking teh tubes!
on a more serious note, this sounds like a cartload of crap.

No, I think it would rather lead to an increase of products 'made anywhere' but 'sold in the USA' by a company the copyright holder approves of, thereby leading to neither lower prices nor better availability.

While I think this action is quite cool, I would argue that not even coffee shops and businesses like that need open wireless connections.
They could just as well make the WPA2 key easy to remember and put it in some obvious place, enabling their clients to use encrypted connections and avoid all that Firesheep stuff as well.

'Potential Indicators of Terrorist Activities' guidelines? PITA guidelines? Well done!

I fear you'll find many people who ardently believe one thing or another without having any clue whatsoever.