According to Wikipedia, Brazil (the only Portuguese speaking country) accounts for a little less than 50% of South America population. Simplifying languages into nationalities, and considering the trends, it's safe to say that Spanish IS the most common language in SA.

http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/08/bright-side-of-sitting-in-traffic.html

Why is Google the villain? What if we put it this way?

"The whole reason they dropped Google Maps was that their contract with Google was up, and Apple wouldn't renew it on terms acceptable by Google. It wasn't about "supporting" or "helping" Google, it was entirely about what Apple was asking in return for allowing Google Maps in their OS"

Or, in the case of USA, for 3 years.

What ever happened with the stolen bag and laptop? Did you get something back? Did you LOSE data (that is, was something not backed up)? Are you mad with the organizers / country that hosted the event?

It is quite likely you will eventually hit something we might need someday.

Or the laser beam could come around and bite us in the ass.

Hitler's stated goal, publicly available years before the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact (which, to be fair, was not an Alliance, but a non-aggression pact. Yes, he still broke it, but Hitler did not betray his allies, Italy, Romania, Japan, among others), was to get some lebensraum at the expense of the Soviet Union. There was nothing to be gained invading the British Isles instead.

Hitler hoped that a peace could be worked out with the West as late as after defeating France. There's a reason he let 300.000 soldiers from the BEF escape in Dunkirk: he didn't want to hurt British pride so much as to make a deal afterwards impossible.

Did that even happen? Got any links? I doubt it, but I'm always willing to analyze evidence.

Well the American "system of law" doesn't comport with the rest of the world's basic notions of due process either. In the US of A, you can be imprisoned for years without being even charged with a crime. How is that better that Burma's again?

Brilliant. Well, it certainly worries this Linux developer -- although I mostly rely on pre-3.0 kernels. Wasn't there a rule on Slashdot about mirroring articles before posting links to them ?

blockquote>Unfortunately for the Hooke estate, the great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great offspring of the original microbes are demanding 347 years of royalties for the use of their ancestors likeness.

Which, divided by quite a few thousand trillion siblings, amounts to... not much.

The "Frost piss" title has never been so appropriate here: you will certainly like the chapter "Several Observable in the fix branched Figures form'd on the surface of Urine by freezing", page 88 (Google Books index). Hey, that frozen urine crystal looks marvelous !

Of course. That's what real economists, of the Nobel prize winning class, have said already: bitcoin has deflation written all over it, and that's its doom. It won't work as it doesn't encourage use, but hoarding.

Exactly. So it would be like in Switzerland. Seems to work over there.