Our continent has had a rich history of cultures and languages, perhaps the most diverse in human history!

Not to belittle the great diversity of language on the American continent, but sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia, especially India, Indonesia and the Philippines, are significantly more diverse lingustically even than Bolivia (the most lingustically diverse country in the Americas).

given how war-torn their two countries are

You mean the Irish come from both Eurasia and Oceania?

You're unlikely to get robbed in a drug neighborhood, for example, because most people either don't have anything to steal, or have a weapon, or will fight to the death over their last $2.

There's also the fact that the gang that controls distribution has no interest in increased police presence on their turf, so they tend to keep petty street crime under control.

So the freedom of speech of the terrorists who made those videos trumps the right to privacy of the families of the victims now?

America has become very screwed up since 9/11 in more ways than one.

I remember reading a few years ago that in one of the south-east Asian cities (Kuala Lumpur maybe? Singapore?) there was two-tier pricing on electricity -- dirt cheap up to X kWh so that everyone could have lighting and basic usage

In Malaysia there are 5 tiers for electricity pricing (until recently it was 9), and if your total bill for the month comes to less than RM20 (around USD 7), the government covers it.

Other media organizations are not posting the video because of ethics. How would you feel if it was your brother, son or father in that video that is being splashed around the world? But Fox news will never learn from their past mistakes.

Only Borders and Radio Shack have come to Malaysia for their retirement as far as I'm aware. Radio Shack only started appearing around the time of the Borders collapse, so I guess the holding company for both has decided to specialize in deals with ailing US companies looking at overseas expansion as a way to save their business. But unlike Singapore, where Borders closed down a couple of months after the US, they've managed to separate it out enough from the parent company to end up with a known brand that they can continue to run independently. A newspaper article yesterday said that the local Radio Shacks have their own supply chains and won't be affected by the US collapse, so they may also last well beyond their US parent.

The company's franchise locations, as well as stores in Mexico and Asia, are not included in the deal.

I get that the overseas stores are not included in the sale to Sprint, because that would make absolutely no sense, but what I really want to know is what happens to them when Radio Shack goes bankrupt. In other words, I want to know if my local Radio Shack located inside a Borders store (I kid you not) will still be open.

The music corporations are entirely non-US companies.

Not quite. You still have Warner (the smallest of the big 3).

I'm not a lawyer, but I know some of you are.

Pro tip: Anyone claiming to be a lawyer on Slashdot, or indeed on the internet in general, is probably lying. Especially if it is while they are providing you with what appears to be legal advice.

Mail from third party servers doesn't pass through Google's servers to be visible in the GMail app. If it did, it would also be accessible from Inbox. All they did was added the IMAP/POP3 backend to GMail so the interface can be unified.

One great thing about Outlook is the ability to recall mails

????. One idiotic thing about Outlook is it gives non-technical cow-orkers the illusion that you can recall mails. Personally I get a bit sick of my mailbox being full of duplicate emails and recall notices because someone wanted to fix a trivial spelling mistake.

Alpine Linux uses 130 MB

The first version of Slackware I tried ran on two floppies - one for the kernel, and one for the userspace. This didn't include a graphical interface though - you needed to download the CD image for that.

2km? I'm pretty sure I heard somewhere about an ancient construction technique that can support structures up to 8,848 m.

If your wireless provider refuses to release updates, how are you expecting a backport of the fix to 4.3 to help?