Then explain why public transport in US cities (and outlying areas) can be so horrific, then? You can't claim "we so biiig!" when talking about cities, as they are directly comparable to those in Europe...

Stop thinking about borders - telecoms doesn't give two hoots about them. If what you say is true, internet in US cities should be the best and cheapest around, with the boondocks suffering. As it is, it's mainly crap across the board. Making excuses for shoddy US infrastructure is only helping it continue - I know you might feel upset at not being #1 #1 #1, but without accepting that you're not going to improve anything.

Plus your map is not showing 'continental Europe' - Europe is larger than the US, so it appears you are merely furthering the stereotype of geographically-hindered Americans. Shame on you. You got so much wrong in one post it's bordering on the hilarious.

I pay well less than that in Germany, and get 160mb/s down. It was 160, anyway - they keep increasing it. I've not checked in a while what I've currently got.

People in areas of Sweden with a population density of ~4 per square KM still get better internet than in many US cities. Your argument is old and busted.

Then why isn't internet access in US cities any good? They're no larger than in other parts of the world, and those other places seem to be able to offer decent, cheap internet for anyone interested...

You mean Windows XP mode? It gives you a (usually-invisible) VM, and you can export apps from that VM to your desktop, so they run in their own windows. I've used it and it's absolutely genius.

The partnerships are still there. Bush created the power vacuum, not Obama. It's rather apt to blame Bush for the invasion of Iraq, as he chose to invade it. You thinking it has nothing to do with it is incredibly telling.

He was talking relatively. Clearly people are not equating a single 50$ lightning rod with the shifting of the entire global industry to green technologies. Only an idiot would think that - oh, it's Bartles. My apologies ;)

Amongh many other things, with carbon credits you get less CO2 pumped into the atmosphere, giving humanity more time to come up with a solution, and a method of partially funding it at the same time. It would help you to know what you're complaining about before doing so, in order to differentiate you from some ignorant talk radio listener railing against whatever his chosen broadcaster hates this week. I know it's tempting to post pithy one-liners in order to try to make a point, but when the one liners merely illustrate your lack of understanding, it's not particularly beneficial to the discussion, or to you, to do so.

Apart from it being a free upgrade for Windows 7 users, you are entirely right! Rabble rabble rabble!

Better performance for free is neither unjustified or expensibe.

But it will work. Windows 10 is free if acquired in the first year of release. Is this so hard to understand?

Microsoft Terminal Services Client is ever so difficult to remember! I wonder why people haven't died simply trying to remember it - these MS bastards should be taken to court!

The toys of the rich become the tools of the poor, when given enough time. Yes, the rich will get all this stuff soon, but eventually, if successful, they will become so cheap everyone will have (or be able to have, should they wish) one.

Anyone who is enthusiastic about something might overemphasise its abilities, especially if they are trying to sell it. If you know that you won't get quite so offended or surprised by these pitches not precisely panning out in the long run, saving us from having to read the age-old faux-outrage responses again and again and again every time someone attempts to introduce a new way of doing things.

The petty ramblings of billionaire technologists are allowing you to read what I'm writing, so I'm not sure you can call it mostly drivel...

You are absolutely pathetic. Are you really that scared you feel you need to create such ridiculous straw men in order to besmirch a religion? Don't you realise that for every one of these comments you shit out you only make yourself look like some ignorant, intolerant, 19th century muppet, scared and confused, lashing out at that which you don't understand? Of course not - you're a xenophobe. You probably think you're doing the right thing.