Well, they could build their products to last at least 2 years, that should drastically reduce the number of repairs/replacements needed... but I know, that's just a fantasy.

Not in Germany.
Here, if the labor unions follow the rules (which they usually do) a strike is people taking an authorized (not by the employer but by the law) leave of absence to bring the employer to the negotiation table.

German labor unions aren't using strikes as excessively as the unions in other European countries seem to do, thus the whole systems works out fine for everybody involved most of the time.

There are lots of current Android phones with SD card slots.

Nexus devices don't have them because somebody at Google doesn't seem to like them.

High end devices of other companies sometimes don't have them because the manufacturer wants you to buy the model with 32 or 63 gig rather than the model with 16 gig and a cheap MicroSD card.
But the mid-level devices of the same manufacturers usually come with a CD card slot as they cut down the onboard flash memory to reduce the price.

Lucky you.
I made the same experience as GP. Some times (I haven't found any cause) some of my playlists have a filesize of 0.

Also (and this is independent from the above mentioned lost playlists) foobar only saves changes on playlists on close. So if I rearrange stuff in playlists and then keep using foobar and it later crashes those changes are gone.

If taxes are reduced, will companies pay better wages, decrease their prices, hire more people?
Hell no! They will still outsource everything, reduce wages and pay the upper management more for increasing profits.

Let's see: If the American company Apple does business in Italy but moves it's money to Ireland to pay taxes there, the taxes lost to the Italian treasury are paid by... ah yes, here it is: The Italian people.

The Italian people first pay the multinationalcompany for the products and then again have to make up for the taxes that this company evaded paying.
And the multinational gets richer and richer...

Usually you can remove pre-installed apps once you rooted your android device, as that gives you the option to get read-write access to this 'ROM'.
Only on a few devices with unusual partition schemes does that not work.

But this is not an Android fuck-up, as you claimed, but a Motorola fuck-up, if anything.
On all 6 of my Android devices (from 4 different makers) I can update pre-installed apps without problem.

If you really would have to remove the old version on the Xoom to install a new version you should be able to do that by rooting your device. After that you can usually remove pre-installed apps as you can get write access to the system folders.

The way you worded your original statement is just plain wrong.
(And don't come with the 'I'm not a native English speaker' excuse. I'm neither.)

What the...?
You can update the pre-installed version of (almost) any app from the Play Store or by side loading without any problem.

The first thing that happens when I do a factory reset on an Android device is that the Play Store wants to update half of the pre-installed apps.

23 sites with 41 facilities. Each site has at least 1 facility, some sites have 2 or more.
On 2 of these sites a total of 2 of the facilities have not been tested.
So it's not 4, it's still just 2.
2 facilities, one each in 2 sites.

You mean something like Plasma Active (http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active/Devices), which runs on the Nexus 7?

Is it? The internet is global thing. There are no signs on the entrances of websites telling everybody 'this is a US site. Don't enter if you're not a proper 'merican!'.
And US companies using generic TLDs like .com, .net or .org instead of .us (yes, that one exists) certainly suggests that they are open for everybody.

So how about you pack you xenophobia and call it a day?

Probably because you don't speak any foreign languages, right?

Oh, and car analogies are used basically everywhere in the world. 'cause, you know, we have and love cars too. Just different brands.
You could have figured that out all by yourself. Considering that you will find quite a few Japanese and German cars on American streets...

This WSJ article seems to be the source of Der Spiegel: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304470504579162110180138036

Actually, a new report from Der Spiegel suggests that Obama didn't know about the NSA spying on Merkel and stopped it as soon as he heard about it: http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/us-ueberwachung-interne-untersuchung-beendete-spaehangriff-auf-merkel-a-930301.html (German, sorry)

Now, we don't know how much truth is in there, but things might not be as simple as your statement.

Somebody who uses 'Crauts' (it should be 'Krauts', btw) and 'Huns' probably lacks the mental capacity to think two steps ahead, but on the off chance that I'm wrong let me try to explain something anyway:

Us 'Huns' haven't started a war in 68 years, which is about 56 years more than the US can claim.
Why?

Well, I would like to think that we actually learned our lesson and are nicer people now, but something like that is hard to prove.

Another reason why we didn't is that the US took a somewhat novel approach after WWII: Instead of beating the defeated enemy to the ground and destroying his economy and so on, the US convinced the other western Allies to help rebuild Germany and help them form a viable democracy.
A beaten and humiliated foe will never stop seeing you as the enemy and the reason for his downfall. The Germans, on the other hand, learned to see the western Allies as (sometimes uneasy) friends.

With the membership in the NATO and the formation of the EU it goes a step further: The military, political and economical interests of Germany and it's former enemies are now intertwined. Starting a war with France or the US would hurt Germany itself more profoundly.

So letting 'the Huns' in the 'front freakin door' is an important part of making sure that we don't start WW3. And 'killing the EU' too might not have the results longterm that you're looking for.

American often complain about anti-Americanism in Europe.
Well, I can't talk about other countries, but I know that's not true for Germany.
We still see the US as a friend. But if a friend does something that you consider stupid or counterproductive or as hurtful for your friendship you will tell him, complain or get a distance for a while until he goes back to being the friend that you like.
That's the phase we're in right now.