I don't know about the government, but I'd bet that your neighbours would be more angry than annoyed, and you'd need to ask for government police intervention to prevent physical 'annoyance' to your face.

To put it very simply, if USA doesn't have a strong advantage in innovation (as they did since 1950's), then there is no reason and no way that USA salaries will be so much above the world average as they are now.

Your income will be somewhere in the middle between current USA levels and a handful of rice per day. Does it matter now?

The same way as monkeys can pound out sentences on typewriters - sit and smoke weed for a couple of hours, 'painting' every plane that's landing, and you're bound to succeed in blinding a couple of them.

I don't see fly-by-night autocreated sites overtaking great sites in #1 spot - these are permanent, long established spam sites as it does take some time and 'reputation'/link building to get there, so manual whacking would definitely get some use. Noone cares if there are spam sites as such somewhere in the listings - the problem is that they get allowed to grow larger ratings over time than good sites.

Stopping web spam is technically quite possible - get the common web queries that people are complaining about, have a couple grunts check the sites, and if they are link-farms, then manually add a permanent negative infinity to the pagerank of these sites. THe fact that they are not doing this despite their ability indicates that they are not so interested in that.

It's still comparable, and I'd say that you would still need additional DVD's every year in the future for the new photos you will be taking.

Online would probably be better and cheaper - a subscription to Mozy or something else would likely be cheaper than a hundred dvd-r's, and take much, much less effort.

If someone controls your air supply and your only way out, then you've got a de-facto strong goverment and you don't get a say in it, want it or not.
I'm 99% positive that anyone sending people to moon will ensure that these people get zero access to 'weapons of equalization'.

As far as I remember, Open Office could read and write .docx formats easily, so wouldn't OO also qualify for this requirement?

Anything that actually happens is 'scientific' enough to investigate.

Nature and the truth doesn't care about what seems reasonable and interesting - what works, works, and should be studied scientifically.

Homesteaders got the land due to the Homestead Act granting them the right to be left alone. On the moon, however, the benefits will belong to whoever can enforce their will locally by force - it likely won't be earth governments (since it's hard to climb the gravity well to punish 'colonies'), but I'd bet that it most likely will not be the hardworking grunts either - some power structure will easily control and exploit them.

If any US investor of significant size wants to invest in FB, he can set up a shell company in Bahamas and have that company purchase the shares - I'm sure GS lawyers can present it in a neat package with a ribbon around it.

China is leading in the production of creative minds - many of them educated in US universities; while US citizen enrollments in engineeering subjects is falling.
Not only US seems to be losing the front position - it seems to be losing the engine with which to move forward.

Find a way to get to some actual free market competition somehow. Here in Europe there are offers for unlimited plans at 15-20 US dollars/month, but I don't talk that much, and easily get average bills of something like 8 USD/month.

There is no reason to charge 10c for a text message - I just saw here an ad targeted at teens on cheap/limited mobile plans, offering to subscribe to unlimited free SMS at something like 2 USD/month, and teens being teens, they'll probably send a thousand SMS for that.

With an optional upgrade, the office bot will be able perform these functions as well.