Can you set the track pad as tap to click, click to right click?

It used to have the ability to display oldest first.

I really wish google had that, search a name, reverse sort order).

also, I wish gmail had the ability to remove atrchwments, but keep the mail, don't know if yahoo does.

Fair enough.

I think the rest of the world has a spill-over benefit from the corrupt system, that perhaps has its roots in legitimacy (being relatively untouched in WWII put the US in a unique position for a lot of things). A leg up in medicine (Switzerland and the US are where the drug companies tend to reside), and tech (though England's fear of tech was responsible for that too), military (the US had more money to spend, and didn't need to be rebuilt).

It's pretty obvious to anyone that can think at this point that it's just a self-feeding rip-off the populous machine, it doesn't mean other countries don't gain fro it in ways too though.

Again you imply I think it's noble. I think it's bullshit. Germany, Japan, and south Korea can all defend themselves. So can isreal.

The us government is losing lots of money funding the military, and until their suppliers start providing social programs, that's what's relavent to the discussion.

There were a lot of spillover benefits to the US nuclear program, even if the motive wasn't for them.

We're a bastion of corrupt mess, but that corrupt mess is worth 1-2 percent of GDP to many other developed nations. In 2008 the excess military spending by the US was 30-50% of the deficit.

Allowing countries to defend themselves (we don't actually let them, I'm not blaming other countries, only the US), would go a long way to deficit reduction.

WRT to drugs, that's not what I'm saying at all.

I'm saying the the US health industry costs more for the same thing, that is where the profit comes from. I know that social countries do research, and it pays off when they sell the drugs in America.

In what way was I libertarian about medicine? I think I mentioned a price-cap, If on-patent medicine costs more per a pill in the US than Canada, it factually means the US is funding more of the research (into marketability and profits). I think I said the free market in healthcare was fucking the US people, not helping.

Google+ fucked up by trying too hard.

I liked Buzz, it played to google's strengths (I always had a gmail window open for chat and email), and automatic tight communities (people I regularly chatted with). They should of slowly scaled it up, integrated with Picassa, etc.

Instead they dumped it, made something new, and tried to get everyone to switch. 30% tired it out, didn't want to go to yet another site, and staid with the 70% who didn't try it.

Facebook grew naturally, and destroyed Myspace over a long period of time, google fucked that up with google+, but I think Buzz could of done it.

It's a lot easier to be socialist when your defense and medical R&D are covered by other countries.

I wish the US would see this and stop doing so for the rest of the world. It's really annoying as a US citizen to be spending 4 times (as a percentage of GDP) on our military as Germany (I think we can trust them now). Yet we pretty much mandate it to be so.

Additionally we pay more for the same medicine because our government refuses to take a stand on this issue, while other governments do. I'd like to see a law that no medicine or medical devices can be sold in the US for over the average price in the rest of the G8.

They love to bundle TV with the internet (cable + Internet is $100, either alone is $65).

Except downloading from an unauthorized source for personal use is barley illegal (if at all).

It's the distribution that that is a crime.

Thus my subscription to Usenet.

If providers follow take-down notices, it's legal for them too (and there is a lot of legit content on Usenet).

It's the original uploader that's made the illegal copy (with the provider getting safe-harbor).

IANAL