I'm pretty sure overloards are, in fact, fead.

Stealing (e.g. learning / copying what others did, legally or not) is a great way to develop industry from scratch.
Note that many things they do go far beyond stealing. E.g.:
1) Moon probe returning back to earth
2) High speed trains (this one started with importing technology from all countries with major know how)
3) Longest bridge in the world
4) Biggest dam in the world

My point is, the steal at times, but they are not limited to it.

Well, no, not really.
It started with George Hotz's dumps, which was a combination of hardware glitching + program running in OtherOS.
If not the OtherOS, it wouldn't even be possible!!!

Before that PS3 system was very obscure, hence next to nothing was happening.

More to it, dumps, once analyzed, revealed epic mistakes in the encryption scheme (they used a static, instead of random number in crypto), which lead to Sony's private keys becoming public which lead to PS3 being hacked wide open.

However I wouldn't count with this happening again. It could well be that current gen consoles won't be hacked even in 10 years.

Witcher 3 (was released on gog.com), Dreamfall released a couple of weeks ago.
How well they'll do remains to be seen, though.

Actually, no, it wasn't Stalin's.
In Stalin's era USSR was developing faster (actually, like 4+ times faster) than the West. He started with retrograde agricultural country and ended up with a nuclear superpower.
Hitler's economy was insanely good too.
And hell, yeah, we know about the price for both cases, no need to remind.

As far as USSR's economic growth goes, in Khruschev times it was still more than healthy, twice faster than the West.
However , in Brezhnev's era at some point in 70th it simply stopped growing. Let alone that most of the grows was done at the cost of the quality (higher number of lower quality machines). In 1978 Soviet Union didn't grow even according to the official statistics.

Then how is Earth 6000 years old? Isn't it what Bible states?
  http://creation.com/6000-years

She speaks Cantonese.
She has close relatives who speak only Mandarin (and Zuckerberg wanted to communicate with them).

So it makes perfect sense to call her Chinese in this context.
  http://money.cnn.com/2014/10/2...

Oh yeah. We saw how well things fly without vB, cough, Vanguard rocket, cough

None of them was even remotely at Von Braun's level.

Ok, it might be cheap, but "safe", seriously?

Chernobyl? 200 thousand square kilometers affected. Then, maybe that happened because it's a former communist country, right.
Is Japan, perhaps, industrial enough? Fukushima, cough?

The REAL negative thing about nuclear power is, that it's too damn RISKY to run the damn things. Benefits are not worth it (for many people, including me), THAT'S why it's being shut down in many countries.

There ARE better alternatives, in the first half of 2014 30% (thirty percent, yep) of electricity in Germany was generated using renewable sources (mainly wind, biogas and solar). (up from 6.3% in 2000)

They don't plan to stop at it either, current goals in Germany:
Renewable electricity - 40 to 45% by 2025, 55 to 60% by 2035, and 80% by 2050

There are countries which are far ahead. For instance Sweden was at 50% back in 2005.

I'm glad you didn't mention iPad. Remember the expensive devices Microsoft was pushing in late 90th?

For me, and I'm pretty sure for most owners of the pocket PC's in early 2000-s transition from "Pocket PC" => "Pocket PC + Phone" was more than obvious.
The only thing that was missing, was cheap enough tech.
Apple was not the only company working on it.

Multi-touch => pitch to zoom and the likes is obvious too, we had that back in 90th.

Musk, however, managed to create electric car market, when car manufacturers were saying, nah, maybe a decade later.

Lower crime rates, mandatory health insurance, larger middle class.

Well, yeah, but it's still a valid concern.
Weightlessness is a major problem, muscle atrophy, skeleton deterioration, both at rapid rate.

So Porsche, which sells about 80 000 cars annually, is "a fringe brand"? Seriously?

What makes F35 better or faster than F22?