Beaglebone Black does not cost 4 times more (anymore?), last time I've checked it was about 2 times more expensive.(about 60 Euro for BB vs 30 Euro for RPI)

I recall there were alternative chipsets for both Intel and AMD CPUs coming from companies like VIA and nVidia.

What about conservation of energy???

Actually, twelve:

"Mark Hamill has stated that Lucas told him in 1976, while filming the first film in Tunisia, that four Star Wars trilogies were planned. Lucas suggested Hamill could have a cameo role in Episode IX, which might be filmed in 2011.[1][4] A Time magazine story in March 1978, quoting Lucas, also contained the assertion there would be 10 further Star Wars films after The Empire Strikes Back.[5] Gary Kurtz was also aware of proposed story elements for Episode VII to IX before 1980."
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...

To elaborate (I'm neither gay, nor gay hater, nor Russian, nor iPhone lover, please spare me and don't try reading between the lines as there is nothing in there, really)

Russia has a law that basically forbids "as Good As You" approach. (that's where word "gay" comes from, to my knowledge)
That is, by claiming being gay is as good as being heterosexual, or that gay sex is as normal as heterosexual sex, you break the law.
The theory of Russian parliament is that such claims are effectively gay propaganda.

Now, Cook not only said that he was gay (which, frankly, could also have been interpreted same way), but also claimed it to be "a gift" from God. This, apparently, breaks the above mentioned law.

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.