As a Sweed I take offence to the mockery of my accent.

My name is three characters long and I have to spell it out to people, even though pronounced it's grammatically correct they add an extra t to the end of it the few times they hear what I say.

At least when Peter Sunde got famous I could stop spelling out my last name... bloody Sweeds.

I much rather vote for an ideology than a person, people are fallable as we get reminded of time and again. We (Sweeds) get to vote for parties (optionally people in parties) though.

... get rich by giving the profits to a foundation dedicated to free-speech and democracy? I do however they get some monetary compensation for the ~5 years of labor they put in it but it wouldn't surprise me if they won't. Why on earth you are modded insightful is beyond me.

In a real democracy the opposition can be far more than 49% when there is more than two of them. The difference is that every now and again America gets it's panties in a bunch and decides to invade a country despite not having permission from anyone to do so or decides to overthrow an government by funding revolutionaries. The rest of the world reacting to Americas policy's is a matter of self defense at this point, don't fool yourself into thinking it's because half the people respectfully disagree as you re-elect the loonies for a second term.

H.M. seemed to do ok:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/us/05hm.html?_r=4&pagewanted=all
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=861#more-861

Why go to sci-fi when there's real people who have been in that sittuation.

You do realize that the entire earth was covered in these wind blockers called trees before some guy decided we should cut them all down, right?

If it's a grand project you want I suggest you go manhattan-project on fusion power, the costs would be enormous and the benefit likewise.

We are one step closer to killing that "Todays youth"-meme that has been going on for probably well over 2000 years.

Society needs to understand that everyone does stupid shit once in a while and it's, OK. Yes I'm talking you you, judgmental random people (no not you, the other guy, no not him the one in the red shirt yeah HIM!).

In Japan the speed limiter gets disabled when you drive onto a track.