... get rich by giving the profits to a foundation dedicated to free-speech and democracy? I do however they get some monetary compensation for the ~5 years of labor they put in it but it wouldn't surprise me if they won't. Why on earth you are modded insightful is beyond me.

In a real democracy the opposition can be far more than 49% when there is more than two of them. The difference is that every now and again America gets it's panties in a bunch and decides to invade a country despite not having permission from anyone to do so or decides to overthrow an government by funding revolutionaries. The rest of the world reacting to Americas policy's is a matter of self defense at this point, don't fool yourself into thinking it's because half the people respectfully disagree as you re-elect the loonies for a second term.

H.M. seemed to do ok:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/us/05hm.html?_r=4&pagewanted=all
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=861#more-861

Why go to sci-fi when there's real people who have been in that sittuation.

You do realize that the entire earth was covered in these wind blockers called trees before some guy decided we should cut them all down, right?

If it's a grand project you want I suggest you go manhattan-project on fusion power, the costs would be enormous and the benefit likewise.

We are one step closer to killing that "Todays youth"-meme that has been going on for probably well over 2000 years.

Society needs to understand that everyone does stupid shit once in a while and it's, OK. Yes I'm talking you you, judgmental random people (no not you, the other guy, no not him the one in the red shirt yeah HIM!).

In Japan the speed limiter gets disabled when you drive onto a track.

Road? It kept insisting I was on water when I was in Berlin. I'm happy if it can figure out what city I'm in sometimes.

Warning speed limit exceeded, you are doing 30km/h you should be doing 8 knots. Stand by lowering the sails and firing the canons.

• BSA is killing at least 9 babies every day.

• 5 our of 10 RIAA employees snort crack.

• MPAA responsible for 80% of Global Warming.

In line with the BSA methodology this has all been confirmed through the use of chicken intestines, tea leaves and and an unhealthy amount of LSD.

All of your points could have been attributed to Netscape Navigator once, yet it crashed and burned.

Maybe people realized that putting your name on the Internet doesn't mean people will show up at your doorstep and rape you. Also now that hundreds of millions of people (billions?) on the Internet there's plenty of people who share the same name.

Except for me because someone thought it was a good idea to name me after an American comic book character, an old-Swedish middle name and a Norwegian lastname. Thanks!

The only thing I'm really worried about is a potential future employer googling me and finding drunken rant of mine (as to say I'd tell the employer I was drunk at the time..).

I installed ruby on windows for the first time today with the windows one click installer, it worked like magic.

I don't see how strawberry perl is particularly hard to install I even think it's easier to use on windows as it doesn't keep nagging you about internet access when I grab something of CPAN.

Then there's vbscript and jscript interpreters built into windows already.

I've yet to install python but I expect it to be as equally easy. I think you might be way of base on that point.

I run Ubuntu as my desktop OS.

Wow, someone should be fired. Preferably the entire line of people who knew about how low and where those planes would be flying didn't stop and think for one second, but more realistically the person who instigated the e-mail notification.

This is one of those cases where leaking to the press should be considered a good thing.

When the databases leak (and they all leak, who are we kidding here) at least with the government I'm more convinced it's due to incompetence rather than mallice.

At least I've got the power to try and replace the people in charge of government every now and again. My only option with the ISP would be using a gun.

I get your point though, worlds a messed up place. :(

Which might have been relevant if Australia didn't have lower energy consumption than the US (per capita) as does the United Arab Emirates.

Places that have a higher (again per capita) consumption include Iceland, Norway, Finland and Canada

So in essence you are pulling that argument out of your ass. (mod me flamebait all you want, it's true. See: http://earthtrends.wri.org/searchable_db/results.php?years=all&variable_ID=574&theme=6&country_ID=all&country_classification_ID=all)