This is not true. If you pay $100 you can compile and run whatever you want. You might be unhappy about these $100, and indeed, Apple is rich enough to provide this service for free. Also, they could easily make their Appstore GPLv2 compliant by requiring sources for GPLv2 apps and offering them for download. They are even entitled to these sources. All they need to do is add a little extra function to the Appstore. However, it seems that they are not so interested in GPLed software: It's easier to pull apps as needed.

You might still be allowed to include your interpreter in your bundle. This is commonly used for Python applications. Sounds wasteful, though.

This would be a non-issue if the new Mac Appstore could distribute low-level software, libraries, third party software and frameworks just like linux distributions. In particular, if Apple isn't interested in Java anymore, but someone else would maintain it, everybody would be fine.

Well, 30mph is a challenge (do really need that), but if you make a small concession on the speed you can do it easily with a bicycle, this is cheap and even somewhat heallthy. I do that everx day and I wonder really do wonder why people actually discuss problems like still instead of getting a bicycle. Also please note that a moving belt of 30 mph would require at least three levels (Asimov style) and thus be quite expensive. If you use one level you never get more than 10mph and I beat that easily with my bike.
P.S. thanks, I'm still alive, traffic has been domesticated here long time ago. I'm living in Europe.

This is not correct. Thermal solar power can store heat for the night. Probably you should learn a little before mistreating small helpless screen pixels like that.

yes, and at an interest rate of 3% (lets just assume that, we have a low risk loan here) that's $50 per month and home. That's still a large number, but if you add the other positive effects like job creation and technology build-up this not a "drunken sailor" invest. Just as a remainder: Iraq and Guantanamo for example, these are drunken sailor activities.

Well, if you are willing to shell out 100$ for the developer license you *can* develop whatever you want and you can even install it on 100 iPhones. You can even distribute the source code. You can't distribute the binary through the appstore, unless they are accepted by those censors. However, I'm not sure that RMS' favourite freedom is about distributing binaries.

It seems that you do not know too much about fascism. If you want to something against fascist tendencies, why don't you look after human rights in Guantanamo Bay, Baghran and other places humans are imprisoned without due process and, yes, tortured?

If you look at the temperature from outer sky you might measure the heat emission from earth to outer space. The higher the temperature, the higher the heat emission. If a greenhouse effect is effective, it reduces the heat emission and thus the temperature. In this scenario there would be a lower temperature in the upper atmospheric region as long as until a new equilibrium is reached, with higher temperatures at the surface of the earth.

I'm a Kraut. If I want to enter an umlaut I have to press the corresponding vowel and wait for about 2 seconds until a bubble pops up where I can select my favorite umlaut. I hate these two seconds.
What I would suggest: allow people to bring up this bubble by a small gesture, e.g tap the character and then slide down.
By the way: slashdot seems to be umlaut-challenged, too.

Testing gravity on small distances is extremely hard because gravity is so weak. See http://www.stanford.edu/group/kgb/Research/gravity2.html for example. Cosmology is ongoing research, as you can see from the discussion around dark energy. In particular, measuring cosmological distances is a difficult problem. So one cannot say that gravitation were fully understood on cosmological scales.