Give me *everything* BUT windows.

The video was NOT removed as soon as it was brought to Google's attention.
According to the prosecutors the video remained online for two months even though web users had already asked for it to be taken down.

It is also worth mentioning that Google execs will not serve jail time because in Italy sentences of less than three years are commuted for people without criminal records.

The funny thing is that I can't really be defined as an American liberal. Mine was intended to be a joke, without any of the political malignancies you and others found in it. To put it blunty: the guy, no matter his political views and decisions, couldn't deliver a proper speech and was frequently involuntarily funny ("Is Our Children Learning?").
I could have joked about the syntax of 13-years-olds online which may turn out to be much less complex than that of any other primates, but I'm not sure it would have been equally funny, especially considering that teenagers are not world leaders addressing respectable audiences...

Believe it or not, I wasn't expressing a political judgement on the former US President. More simply, one on Bush the public orator whose frequent mistakes were, frankly, rather embarrassing.

A little nervous, eh?
There was no war... As to the war against idiots, well, I like to quote De Gaulle on this: "Vaste programme, en effet."

I must assume that you have never heard Dubya speaking.

Personally I'm not so sure that it is the belated international availability which dwarfs the iconic status of the Kindle. The iPhone too was only available for the US market for a long while. Certainly, the unavailability of a product doesn't help its popularity, but many other factors (not all imputable to Amazon itself), contribute to the somewhat limited extent to which people around the world have reacted to the "revolution" which Amazon was hoping to bring with its device.

I use clipperz, a free and anonymous online password manager which comes in an offline version too. It is based on open standards, proven encryption technologies, and has no vendor lock-in, and full anonymity.

http://www.clipperz.com/

I like the philosophy behind it and the people who have developed it.

If you use it, please consider a donation =)

And there never was any erasing. I checked the archives of the newspapers I read with my Kindle: there NEVER was any erasing of any book. And there never was a reduction of the chocolate ration.