No, windows is not user friendly. It's actually very user antagonistic. It is, however, corporate (particularly *AA) friendly.

Rather than not being user friendly, Linux's problem is it is too user friendly: it's easy to get lost in the choices.

Most windows users want their hand held. Corporations want to use handcuffs. Windows provides the handcuffs.

The flora isn't far behind the fauna.

I had a friend who's allergic to latex. Forget the itch. Anaphylactic shock. When I asked him about the common use of latex being inconvenient, he said there were non-latex versions available.

Cash is king. To the point where many vending machines will take 10000yen (~$100) bills and return a stack of 1000yen (~$10) bills plus some coins when you buy a drink (however, most drink machines won't take anything bigger than 1000yen).

RFID cash replacement cards exist (as do ways of using your mobile phone as one), but places that accept them are rare outside the vicinity of train stations (or even in, in western Japan).

EFTPOS seems to be rarer that the RFID readers.

You can make online puchases with some places (eg, Amazon), and pay in cash at the local Lawson convenience store. COD is very common. Lawson even has a system where you can book for certain popular places (tokyo dysney, ghibli museum, etc) and pay in-store. Paying for your mobile phone is the same: many convenience stores will do the processing for you. Seems to be free, too (probably built into the mobile billing system).

The most technologically advanced country on the planet still likes to rub two coins together.

Discharge a AA nicad batery (~1200mAh) in 4.3 miscroseconds, and you have 1.2GW, so a few lettuce leaves poses no problem. Now, getting a GJ would take a few head of letuce.

Ah, but I am one.

As far as I'm concerned, there is but one appropriate rathing: PG, with a very strong emphasis on the P.

IIRC, paper's ignition point is 451 degrees Farenheight (about 233 degrees C). If things get that hot in your computer, you have bigger things to worry about than the case catching fire. Then again, a bit of water cooling and you have a cofffe maker.

And that too, is true, until you realize that the true purpose of war is to run a scythe through the popluation, preferably before they can breed.

While very true, here's something to consider: with iceballs going that far out, that's a lot of expansion room for any humans willing to live on iceballs (and makes it rather difficult to wipe out the species). Sure, getting there by colonial expansion could take millions of years, so what? Other than the fact that's a long time to figure out how to get there faster :)