You mean like Nokia does?

Could this be related to the recent news about Anonymous?

20,000 of 305,000,00 is 0.6% of the population. As a percentage of deaths it's 0,8%. So maybe over 99% of death causes are more newsworthy?

I find it hard to believe you're a biologist. As a biologist you should know vaccinations do just that, train your immune system. As ColdWetDog says, it's a non sequitur.

I misread the headline and thought Microsoft was starting Kinect-based backups.

Are you sure about that? I'm Dutch, but I've never heard about performant (there are some sources but I'm pretty sure they stole that non-word from English) and dope just means drugs (I've never seen anyone dipping their beans in sauce, but if we would do that, we would probably call that dipsaus). The rest sounds correct. Also: apartheid, candy, cookie, drugs, santa claus and many more.

Well, I may be dumb, but I'm really not your God, and at least I'm smart enough to know the difference between literal and figurative meanings, do my research and provide citations.

You must be thinking of the figurative meaning of tyranny. As such, it does indeed mean cruel and oppressive government or rule. However, since this article is about governance (right?), I am talking about tyranny, form of government, which literally is rule by a single tyrant [6].

There is no such form of government as Tyranny by the Majority [1]. There is one named tyranny [6] and there is majority rule [2] usually seen in democracy. Tyranny by the Majority is a concept, a theory, a criticism of democracy and majority rule [3]. As a form of government it would be an oxymoron. How on earth could a single tyrant, the smallest minority possible, ever be the majority? I do understand the concept, but imo the term is poorly chosen. A better one would be "oppression by the majority" since that wouldn't be so ambiguous.

There's also no form of government called Tyranny by Oligarchy [1]. In fact, there's very little google can find about that. About the only search results are about "the replacement of tyranny by oligarchy" [4, 5]. And this term would also be an oxymoron.

Your statement "A monarchist system is tyranny by oligarchs (the nobles/lords)" is pure nonsense. A monarchy is ruled by a monarch [9] which can be, but not necessarily is, a tyrant. I should know, because where I'm from, is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy [10] and in fact one of the top ten democratic countries in the world [11], far from a tyranny.

To summarize: tyranny is rule by a single tyrant, oligarchy is rule by a few, democracy is rule by the people and monarchy is rule by a monarch.

References:

1. [1] List of forms of government
2. [2] Majority rule
3. [3] Tyranny of the Majority
4. [4] Google search on "tyranny by oligarchy"
5. [5] google search on "tyranny by oligarchy", excluding "replacement of tyranny by oligarchy"
6. [6] Legal definition of tyranny"
7. [7] Legal definition of democracy
8. [8] Legal definition of oligarchy
9. [9] Legal definition of monarchy
10. [10] The Netherlands
11. [11] Democracy Index

PS: If you were really as smart as you were implying, you would know about literal and figurative meanings and that I was talking about the literal meaning of the word. And yes, I'm implying something here.

The question is, have you thought about that? The average person's IQ is 100. Retards have an IQ of less than 70. So, I'm guessing yours must be somewhere in between?

You do realise that the worst except all others is actually the best? Seriously, you need to learn to think before you speak. You call people stupid, but you don't sound too smart yourself.

No matter how much you disagree, he's right, democracy can never be tyranny, by their very definitions.

A tyranny is "a government in which a single ruler (a tyrant) has absolute power".

A democracy is "rule by the people, especially as a form of government; either directly or through elected representatives".

So it was a democratic decision to kill Socrates.

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Please get another job! ;-)

The word you're looking for is dijk. Waaterbonkenwaapenflaapen means to thruwforliously watherdriggle. I think you're trying to elevate Dutch to the US standard :-)

The researchers believe that smaller resolutions are feasible.

I imagine with a lot of hard work they could eventually bring it back to 1x1 pixel.

Google Custom Search does this, among other things.