I don't know where you live, but I live in a big city. No garden to be had, nor roof top available to anyone except the penthouse.

As part of the EU, where the largest budget item is farm subsidies Austria is just as bad as anywhere else. However, I agree that the way farming goes on out here (I'm in NL) is far more responsible that the megacorps in the US despite crazy rules on how bent a cucumber needs to be to end up in the stores

For some reason I doubt Boeing would build a super secure phone on a flawed platform. Neither platform is inherently more secure than the other.

ARGH! If you have to explain a phrase after using it, don't use it! e.g. "California Stop".

its "retarded" (ie, pertaining to an action that is performed by a persone with three standard deviations below the level of common sense or intelligence of the average population)

A with everything, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Very true. I've already forgotten what you just said.

Agreed. Stop litigating (or at least stop granting such retardedly large compensation claims). This will encourage the businesses to stay in the US, be more innovative, an funnel resources to things like R&D.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones

stone coins weighing up to 4 tons and up to 2000 years old.

Since when do we really need TV anymore?

Just a layman's idea but, could it be that due to some kind of gravitational interference, light is slowed down just a tad around Earth while some neutrino's are not thus allowing them to be measured as going faster than light?