They probably would have burned him too, just to be sure.

There must be an American born every minute. Of course it could be that evolution is leaving them out and that's why they can't see it. One third of Americans will go the way of the Neanderthals.

Example: 8 years ago we moved to a small town where no one picked up their dog crap in the park except me. The local ascetic said, "That won't do any good. No one else does that." When people saw me picking up after my dog, they started doing it too. Soon there was no dog crap in the park. There was no requirement to pick up, but people did it because it made a better park for everyone. Just because some people steal, doesn't mean everyone will join them. Most people will do the right thing because it usually makes everyone better off.

Microsoft should transition all those XP users to a linux distro made to look and behave more like Windows. If Windows really is better then those customers will come back when they buy a new machine. In the mean time, Microsoft will have off loaded maintenance onto open source and freed itself to innovate. No doubt they will do something else, that will turn out to be stupid.

Thanks for asking.

A person certainly could spy without spying on me. That is what's at issue.

The NSA scrubs every phone call made anywhere, yours, mine, everyones. Privacy is a luxury of the past.

I wouldn't trust Elop to keep a popsicle frozen. He'd sell off the freezer to save on energy and make his only product, a popsicle, more profitable.

Don't let your kids catch stupidity! It's spread by touching!

Who would miss France if it never showed up in any google search?

Republicans hate science because knowledge is power and they want to keep people as powerless as possible.

Google just has to say 'ineligible subject matter'. Google will also lose it's own patents, but the competition can't outdo them so Google's own patents don't matter.

Of course, it depends on who is counting the votes.

Where would we be without idiots like this to make us feel smart? The same place but feeling less smart.

The American constitution is also supposed to prevent unlawful searches, so why does the Japanese constitution succeed and the American constitution fails to stop illegal capture of electronic communication? Do the Americans just not care?