Even if it does not impress you. it should not convince you that the holder of that IQ has nothing to say.

As for the other accident of birth you referred to, some owners of those are extremely smart too.

The chronically uninformed and uninformable* will find some way to deny this is happening.

* - people who feel that their ignorance outweighs the knowledge of any scientist and so nobody with an IQ over 125 has anything to tell them.

There have been several tools to search multiple search engines at once and aggregate the results.

How about a multiple search over different countries Googles and just show the differences?
That would immediately show specifically what someone wants to hide.

For instance, I could do a search on somneone in Spain and would immediately see what financial instabilities do not show up here.
Someone in China could look Chinese historical events and immediately have them pointed out.

I suspect that it depends on where you go. My family is from Orkney and I find it pretty well covered when I'm back.

As far as London and Edinburgh seem to feel, we are somewhere around the North pole and have a population of about 25. If its up here, it may be even better covered down south where (self) important people live...

They haven't really referred to them as "cell phones for a long time - perhaps the 90's.

What we are really good for in Orkney is wind, not particularly rain. They generally stop admitting to wind speeds over 90mph but that doesn't mean that speeds well over that are unusual.

Sadly, we are pushed for 3G.

If we can identify a zero point, we should just calculate all technical time in seconds past that date. There is already a Julian Day. I would call it the Julian Second. It is now 212,268,345,960. That is not much good for daily activities but perfect;y fine for any electronic system Trivial to write for phone, computer or whatever.

Twitter may be, unconsciously, moving out of the way so that someone can replace it with something better and less susceptible to the control of oxygen thieves.

I have observed that you also are very enthusiastic about your hatred of your phone companies.
If half the stories I hear are true, it is totally horrendous!

If the USA starts acting in an illegal manner, there might be moves to block such acquisitions. Yes, the USA would then start to block foreign buyouts of its companies. If that continues, eventually over 4% of humanity would be structurally, financially and socially isolated from the rest of the planet. Trade wars tend to favour the bigger players. It does not look like the USA is going to stay one of those forever.

So is the USA. You have a lot of citizens who identify with their perceived ethnic origins. You would have the IRA upset with you as well...

people with a very successful choice of parents

Even those who have far exceeded their parents can often be seen to have been comfortably off before they grew up. For example. Bill Gates does not come from poor origins, does he?

The major exception to this are people with sociopathic tendencies or worse. There are certainly plenty of those in organised crime - legal and illegal.

I'm quite happy not to be from your country. There are other variations of what we do elsewhere but in the UK, tax is deducted by my employer and sent to the "tax man". There are fairly simple ways of calculating how its done but basically, I pay 1/12 of my tax each month. Other deductions aside, I get about £10k tax free per year and pay 23% on the rest. If I was higher paid, some would be at the higher rate. If I was self employed, I would need to do what you have to do but even a tiny business can deal with PAYE (Pay As You Earn). I ran a payroll once and it took less than 2 days work per month to do about 350 peoples pay & deductions. Your system seems very complicated/labourious.

I use it this way and cannot see any other use for it.

Want to send me a message? Try email, SMS, skype.G+ and so on. Even Facebook.

Want to send me a picture - see above...

I see no other use for a 140 character max message than to replace the RSS feed

I don't know if it is a real theory but it is an item in a half written book that I may finish one day.

When humans move into space, they will move away from the need to follow any solar day. They will use a 100,000 second day. That's 27 Hours, 42 minutes and 40 seconds.

It's only a minor plot item so I haven't worked it all out but there are several people here saying that they would settle into a 28 hour rhythm. I think I would too.