Actually, I did not know. Looks like it's an extremely dumb name for a party...

Because, you know, if it's named a spade, folks should be able to assume you're talking about a tool or a card suit, right?

How the heck do you shower a baby during pregnancy?

I don't watch crap TV shows either. And I'm not aware of a non-crap one.

Not in this case. Google did unsend the mail. One more reason to never use a mail provider that's not responsible to you.

No -- according to the updated article, the account hasn't been accessed between the mail was sent and Google breached it to comply with Goldman Sachs' demand.

Does this mean for me all sports are fake?

Or rather, that optimizing compilers can expose bugs in buggy code that weren't revealed by naive translation.

And when it comes to loyalty to their new "allies" after the switch, how would you call shooting at English and American planes trying to help the Warsaw Uprising if they tried to go over Soviet-held territory, not even speaking about refueling there?

Russkies were a third side in the war, their relation to the free world was at most an uneasy truce because of a common enemy.

And what about Russian or Chinese hordes of biased editors paid by their governments? They plague not only comment section of pretty much any mainstream news website, but also Wikipedia as well. Try for example the WWII article -- it's so full of paeans of praise for the Soviet Union that someone who doesn't know better would take them for heroes who almost single-handedly liberated the world.

Uhm no, the patent system works as designed since day one. The purpose of patents was to extract some money for the rulers (the king at first). When money went to someone else, elected parliaments try to fight that, like in 1624, but whenever they receive some of the money they propagate the problem. It was never about "innovation".

Go to ipv6.google.com (obviously, requires IPv6), it doesn't do that annoying geolocation.

No, only a part of USians will assume that. For the rest of us, the message is clear, unless we happen to know details of that particular incident, which is unlikely unless one happens to read US news.

No, "Virginia State" is an US state (with a little-known own name of "Commonwealth of Virginia"), "Virginia State University" is the school. Using bare "Virginia" is not enough to tell what you mean, especially in an international forum.

T-Mobile "not evil"??? They gouged me $150 for 1.5MB data roaming from Bosnia (I'm from Poland), and would take more had I used a contract rather than a prepaid plan. And unlike the guy in TFA, I did not get them to reverse the charges.

There are three kinds of men:
* those who admit to watching porn / ogling women /etc
* those who lie
* those below the age of 12