With a different meaning since you been gone...

Stuck in Rutland Weekend Television.

I'm not sure that Nigeria needs more smartcards rather than less Boku Haram.

They must be killed - judge, jury, executioner - before they can reveal that "Charlie" was a Gladio.

A young man from Nantucket...

I know "this really isn't the right Cafe, now is it?"

I suppose it was a disgusted rhetorical... ;-)

My big problem was "change default audio device". :-)

Very anti-intuitive. I had to go through Metro to Win7 wrapper of XP menu for legacy NT/95 control panel. Ow.

The common denominator apps for Web, Twitter, Maps, Angry Birds, MP3 player and whatnot are basically equal across platforms. You can easily adapt to the peculiarities of one, so that the familiarity becomes an actual asset. Differentiation is then minor preferences in form factor, UI idiosyncrasy, etc.

But when you get to serious applications for music recording, editing and processing - or astronomical observation - or organising a rock climbing expedition - or any other rather specialised pursuit?

iOS is really the leader space. Because the tablet really is all about the apps. I can do everything from replace a 4-track studio to manage XBMC/Kodi, before a jailbreak. Nobody bothers with this stuff for Win or Droid. They seem destined for Spotify not Garage Band.

Neal Caffery? Is it you?

Oceania has ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR with East Asia.

Jackson ends up telling NO story - just a vomit of computer-guided coloured lights. Sound and fury, signifying nothing...

I was more worried about replenishing Red Vines, than seeing what happened next.

As a result, the money is stolen not from the customers, but from the bank itself.

"Party on, Garth."

Bizarre argumentation. One hardly knows where to begin with your assumptions and red-herring analogies.

To address your first point - with it's ill-considered implications of parity between democracy, capitalism and actual worth or value: Commercial success at this scale simply indicate how thoroughly that vulgarity and thoughtlessness have been cultivated and encouraged by this media-driven culture over the past 90-100 years or so.

When people make "free choices" in such a society, they do so in appalling ignorance, with a maximum of empty stimulation. This is the post-Edward Bernays world.