Get your ass to Mars, ... Get your ass to Mars, ... Get your ass to Mars, ...
And build a reactor that we can then start to release the water into the atmosphere.

Just don't forget to start those reactors.

After all, we need to give these people air.

My case is almost the same, only I switched from manuals to science fiction novels at some point. English lessons at school consisted mostly of handheld console games for me.
In addition to that, I learned German (to the greatest part; of course I had some interaction as well) from TV at age 5, when I moved to Germany. When school started (a year later) I could read, write and speak better German than most of my native classmates.

Back on topic, I agree with the notion that at least developers should all have a functional English at their disposal, it makes life easier. Also, there isn't nearly as much (useful) content for developers to be found on German or Russian websites, as far as I've discovered so far. Well, in my opinion that also applies to most other topics as well, but that's a different story.

That's exactly how I see it. Laws are rules, nothing more. There's no "right" or "wrong", just preferences.

But still, my point was that hacking yourself is not as easy as it could/should be, because of legal restrictions. You can circumvent those, of course.

Yeah, good luck hacking your system when most interesting and promising hacks are not available or will land you in jail. Or the government actively prohibits any such hacking (see stem-cell debates).

I enjoyed Miku's rendition of Kraftwerk's Computer Love:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOlcq3JFbsU

It combines my favorite Kraftwerk song with Japanese lyrics (and much more of them than in the original piece).

When I first encountered this work on YouTube I wasn't aware of Vocaloid and thought it to be a vocoded/otherwise edited human voice :D

This guy should team up with the Time Cube person. Then they'd rule the earth with their infinite knowledge and (invented) ideas. I wonder if Shampoo already "invented" this idea.

You're remembering the PicoP from Microvision, which is the only "pico projector" that will use lasers http://www.microvision.com/pico_projector_displays/howitworks.html . Everything else is just a small DLP.