I'm not sure about the ESA but it seems kinda tiny when compared to NASA and the Russian space agencies

I wasn't sure about ESA's budget compared to the others either, so I checked it - straight from wikipedia:
NASA: $17.6 billion
ESA: $5.03 billion
RSA: $2.4 billion

You completly missed his point. He's not saying apple is violating patents related to GSM, he's saying that yes, nokia did a lot of patented R&D in the last two decades.

Oh come one now, you're just making things up. You really think we french monkeys paid over the internet "without any kind of encryption whatsoever" until "fairly recently" ? There was one such law during the nineties to limit the level of encryption allowed (I said limit, not forbid) but it was never enforced for obvious reasons. Now there is no such limitation anymore except for companies exporting encryption materials, like pretty much any country has.

As for your comment regarding privacy and personal rights in France (and the retarded thing about what you call our "swat teams") well ... Maybe you should inform yourself a bit more; what you read on digg isn't always true.

Why is getting out of the car being equated with "acting like an asshole" ?

Maybe he didn't know what "the protocol" was? I might of done the same thing in that situation and the idea of doing something aggressive doesn't even enter my mind in situations like that. It could be handled by a simple "Please get back into the car, sir."

I don't know the story yet as I've said elsewhere, but common sense has to say here that there has to be something other than that for justification of a physical beatdown.

He was obviouslyreferring to the title
ISS Can Now Watch Sea Traffic From Space

Yes, because pirates always follow regulation and install a AIS transmitters in their "large ocean-going craft"

Yeah, the USA would never use religion as a motivation to go to war

George Bush: 'God told me to end the tyranny in Iraq' (another source)

George Bush has claimed he was on a mission from God when he launched the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, ...

Palin: Iraq is a task 'from God.'

Sarah Palin (R-AK) addressed the graduating class of commission students at the Wasilla Assembly of God church. During that address, Palin portrayed the Iraq was as a quest decreed by God, and said that U.S. soldiers were carrying out "God's plan"

I'm sure we could find the same kind of thing for every country you listed, these were just the ones I could remember from the top of my head

For a home based, personnal use, less-than-ten-years-old computer this is a non issue - at least with seven x64. It detects pretty much everything by itself, and if not you can use the vista x64 drivers. Sure you can find hardware with no x64 drivers whatsoever and I'm certain someone is going to reply to tell me how wrong I am because his 5 years old serial port thing which barely made it in 32 bit stop him from upgrading, but for joe user bying a new computer installing windows x64 would be painless*.

I think they will have way more trouble understanding what is that UAC thing is and "what the hell is a standard account anyway".

* actually and to be honest, that wouldn't be entirely painless thanks to the absurd number of softwares who require to install some kind of shell extension yet forget to provide a 64 bit version. But hey at least that's not a driver issue !

Parent never said the 32 bits version of these had problems, he said there weren't any windows 64 bits builds (aka; binaries that are natively 64 bits, not 32 bits run through wow64).

Fixed that for you.