Not to mention the compiler that was used to compile _your_ compiler - http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html

What are your sources for those numbers? They don't seem completely off, but it would be nice to know what year they were from, etc.

Those 20% include several lumped-together categories. 20% were on different kinds of welfare in 2010, but that includes the disabled (not sure what year your 12% is from, though - hard without sources...), a special early retirement program, and welfare directed to getting people back into work.

Also, note that close to all teachers - from kindergarten up to and including university, most doctors and most nurses are employed by the government in Norway and other Scandinavian countries.

Not sure if it's a good legal strategy to withhold the patents you think the defendants are infringing, during discovery. IANAL, but that sounds like acting in bad faith to me.

You know Facebook has an office in Hamburg, presumably to sell ad space?

Have you got a 100% efficient battery? 0o

What? Syllable is in C and C++, with only a few pieces of assembly. I think you read the linked article about MenuetOS.

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2004/12/co2-in-ice-cores/

Excerpt:
In other words, CO2 does not initiate the warmings, but acts as an amplifier once they are underway. From model estimates, CO2 (along with other greenhouse gases CH4 and N2O) causes about half of the full glacial-to-interglacial warming.

Well, what if there's no DNA in evidence to compare the sample against? With this law, a sample would be taken anyway.

It's nice that you always remember which buisnesses are allowed to send you newsletters.

Don't you think it's plausible that someone signs up for a newsletter, and when they get it 3 weeks later have forgotten, and mark it as "spam"? Wouldn't that be a problem with the suggested anti-spam system, especially for smaller buisnesses?

If there is incriminating evidence on the harddrive, then the police already have it. She would be pointing out the incriminating parts of the harddrive by providing a key, and therefore she would become a witness against herself.

You can call the powershell modules from any .NET-language, as long as the windows automation libraries are installed - and Exchange needs those anyway.

So no, you don't _need_ to use powershell. But you might as well.

Well, you can browse the local SMB network with ease - and all KDE programs can read/write to SMB shares automagically.

See, the fun thing about a centralized government is that they can decide to lower prices on those buildings, to minimize losses. I guess you already know about most of the not-so-fun-things, so I won't list them all here :)

KDE's release wasn't really that disasturous. They released their platform, which was pretty ready to start building on top of.
Now naturally all the "ultra-hip", "cutting edge" distros had to include the incomplete KDE 4 desktop, instead of the stable 3.5 one, when they could have just shipped the libraries; they can live side-by-side.

It's not modifying society, it's leveraging how a society behaves to achieve your goal.