Well, I have been burnt by Microsoft phones twice already. Almost 3 times.
I most certainly will never buy another one until the phones can be upgraded to the latest OS version over time.

On the bight side, Hans might have a 20 year all expenses paid development cycle ahead of him. Think of the contribution he could make if allowed to.
Talk about making productive use of prisoners time.

Get the little buggers to code some unit tests in VI.

There may be intergalactic travel laws that we are privvy to yet....

Wouldn't it be funny if Apple bought Nokia, just for their mapping tech?

Not if the poor buggers are using ActiveX objects in IE on their intranets....

Democracy is a political system. Communism is a financial system

Just to put it into context, The Fed can only issue money based on the level of Government bonds it holds. Government bonds are backed by tax earnings. So essentially the US Taxpayers were forced to become indebted to the Fed for all of the secret Trillions given to the banks.

This is not entirely true. the Fed is only supposed to print money to the same value of Government Bonds that are issued simultaneously. This is why the American population is indebted to the Fed. It also means that government issued Trillions in bonds that were kept secret.

I call bullshit. 6 pounds 50 should easily cover the cost of making 12 cup cakes - especially if you are making 102 000 of them.......

When the so-called experts can do something simple - like be able to predict the weather - I might consider taking a small sip of the cool aid.
Honestly, do you want to give the green light to scientists to do experiments with our one and only fragile global climatic system?
This whole latest propaganda drive around about the time that the climate convention is being held in Durban has only one purpose - to speed up the implementation of the global carbon tax/credit scam.

PS: Why do you think that humans are not part of nature?

Climate change has never been reversible, and never will be. Period. All of the crud around the issue is simply because we don't want it to happen - and it is going to happen regardless of any futile (and probably horrendously expensive) measures we may take. The sooner we face the fact, the sooner we will be able to course correct and plan accordingly.
I suspect however that there is much fleecing to be done before the zeigeist becomes conscious of this fact.