The German team is half Polish/Turk/Nigerian/Tunisian anyway. Hitler would have rolled over in his grave.
When you have the money to buy the best players or pull in the most talent - it's easier to win.

Panasonic Toughbook - business and fully ruggerdised notebooks?

What about the Sharp (SoftBank) 941SH with a 4inch screen (ASV = 16.7mil colours) boasting 1024x480 last year?
Or the Sharp WX-T930 with a 3.0-inch 854 x 480 pixels (full widescreen VGA LCD), also ASV 16.7 mil colours?

Dial up internet access is better than nothing in places with no Wifi, ethernet or 3G.

One's security level depends on one's previous experience. If you were an ex-British colony and now think you're being dictated to by the West and your brothers are being bombed by your enemies' allies - you may not be as receptive to criticism as
if you were a well adjusted, always on the winning side, hoity-toity British lad (rule Britannia and all that) whose ancestors were the masters of these people and whom you now consider backward. It's a matter of perception. Would you want foreigners to mock you or things you consider sacred/important? Maybe we should just give them breathing space for deciding for themselves how far they're willing to go. You know like not impose things on them.

Anything can be justified. The ultimate conclusion to the logic you employ (get rid of religion in case it is used again after a 1000 years to justify war even though it teaches against violence) is to get rid of everything which can usefully be used to justify anything negative. Newspapers can be used to justify war or sway public opinion with pseudo-intellectual cr-p or with pseudo-science and so they too should be removed. Oh, you say papers are free - well in a Capitalist society they're not - the owner has last say - so get rid of Capitalism too. Get rid of everything. :-) How absurd is that?

The Crusades had many motivations. We've learned to avoid them now. Christianity is no longer uses as an excuse to start wars or defend against them. Christianity itself has realised the error of its ways from within itself. The Scripture is right there - "Thou Shalt not kill", "turn the other cheek", "shake the sandals off your feet and leave" in places where they reject you and not kill them instead - and so on. These are pretty nice ideals. If we keep them we have more choice at the end - we still have freedom to follow the good and reject what we don't like - Mr Atheist can still agree with "thou shalt not kill" but reject all that supernatural stuff. Bigger choice - better value and if it helps some people get on with their lives - all the better. :-)

Are you saying that secular democracies with bills of rights are never able to put their own interests ahead of their neighbours or other states and act aggressively? Are the three things you mentioned above complete guarantors of neutral or benevolent behavior towards your own people or other people?

Hitler, like Stalin (and Pol Pot--different religion I know) de-prioritized the belief that God was most important--said belief that man-made laws were fallible (and therefore suspect) and instead replaced this inherent skepticism in all man-made works with a different dogma, based entirely on the authority of the party - Communist Party or the NSDAP. Both Nazis and Communists (Bolsheviks) were essentially the same as both were Marxists at heart. Anyhow, once you got God out of the way and the Fuhrer or First Secretary (Lenin/Stalin) became your god (as can happen in any system where supernatural gods are eliminated) the soldiers could be told to do whatever was required of them - kill Jewish and Polish (Catholic) women and children for instance and have no fear that they were being anti-God/Christ or Buddha/etc. It didn't work in all cases, as one particular Catholic - Von Stauffenberg tried to kill Hitler because he thought Hitler was bringing about the destruction of Germany.

Religion like all things can be manipulated for good and bad. War can be justified by any means and I think that those who think atheist based systems are foolproof and always inherently ethically good are naive or deluding themselves.

Atheism is about disbelief in supernatural gods. It has no stance on political, social or economic systems. Just because a political system (eg secular humanism, fascism or communism) may lead to state sponsored dogma does not mean that these systems are run on behalf of supernatural gods.

Monarchs help with continuity and political stability. No matter who gets elected there is always some form of continuity - national identity - some form of heritage to remind people who they are or what they stand for - even if many of those things are ascribed to modern non-absolute monarchs and may have previously been outlawed by their predecessors.

Cachexia is common to all cancers when they become sufficiently advanced.

NEC VersaPro UltraLite VS or the new VC - former is an Atom 1.86Ghz CPU, latter is an Intel i5 processor. The netbook is 735g in weight, notebook is under 1kg in weight, built with Mg Alloy - 150kg weight resistance and 75cm drop height resistance on both. Then there is the Panasonic Let's Note range - water resistant keyboard, Mg Alloy case, 100kg weight resistance, 10 hour+ battery, Core2Duo or i5 CPU and 76cm drop height - weight is about 1.3kg for a 14.1inch model
which includes a built in DVD Writer (which the Macbook Air does not).

In short you get a very large, sturdy and well made ultra portable and for not much more weight or form factor than an iPad
with the power to run Adobe Acrobat, Lotus Notes, VPN software, Office, Photoshop etc.

The iPad as said before still requires a whole hand or arm to hold it. You may as well carry something a little heavier - not much really - and you can burn/read CD/DVDs, use any Windows/Linux app and work with any file format.
Of course the iPad is lighter, always on (Netbook takes 15sec to power up Windows with the built in Toshiba SSD) but
iPad is instantaneous, but at the end of the day you still end up lugging them both around - and both have advantages and disadvantages - yet the advantages of the iPad in my mind don't overcome the disadvantages of having to occupy your whole hand with a bulky device. A smart phone can just fit in your pocket (and you can make calls on it too).

I'm just curious how pointing out 'intolerance' and 'violence' which a minority of Muslims follow by using insulting depictions of their deities gonging to work to help them become more moderate. Remember you seek to impose your FOREIGN point of view on a distant culture which already sees itself as being victimised in that the West usually sides with their opponents, the West spreads pornography et al and the besides it's a foreign criticism we're talking about. It's difficult for a Westerner to understand this. The West has been imposing its POV and law on other cultures for hundreds of years but when the British decided to do this in America the War of Independence broke out and later the American Civil War when the South did not want to have Northern laws imposed on themselves. A society needs to change from within. Take Central Europe for example and Iraq. Iraq never had a history of democracy but countries like Poland did. The Poles had the second democratic constitution in the world after the American one. Guys like Lech Walesa knew very well what freedom and democracy means - it was part of their culture - when liberation came they accepted it and now there is a multiparty democracy in Poland. In Iraq however the population never had that ideal and after US liberation they turned on each other - well extremists from both groups turned on each other but there would be less extremism if Iraq had been truly democratic before Saddam Hussein.

My points are thus - understand how change has to occur. It has to be from within and it can't be imposed by foreigners especially when culturally important aspects are seen as being insulted by people far away who themselves are seen as supporting their enemy (whether that is objectively true or not). The Muslims themselves must start to make their own satire and learn to laugh at themselves before letting others laugh at them. Remember that if you in the West say you don't care about being laughed at it's really because you never had foreigners occupy your country. This is also a reason why it's OK to portray a white guy as a dimwit in some TV ads and not a black one. Blacks lived under white oppression but not vice versa.