The problem the Tea Party has is being represented by absolute fraking loons like Michele Bachmann. As an outsider, it gives us a foreigners yet another reason to point and laugh at the colony of crazy that is America.

Crashed and burned? They have sold 95 million Wii's http://kotaku.com/5879478/the-wii-will-sell-a-hundred-million-eventually

Nintendo did dominate the Xbox and PS3 to the point where both Sony and Microsoft felt the need to incorporate motion controls. Nintendo also made money on every system and if the Xbox 720 rumours are true, Microsoft appears poised to follow in Nintendo's footsteps with the next console cycle. The Wii did fizzle out toward the end of it's life but it's still a great console that shook up the industry far more than the PS3 or Xbox could ever hope to.

If anything I'd argue the Wii U is the lacklustre console. The Wii is a pretty hard act to follow but this is Nintendo after all and they could easily pull off a SNES here. Only time will tell but as far as the Wii is concerned, I'd hardly call it the flop you imply it is.

Your mistake was buying a Motorola product. Up until now, they've thrown a bunch of custom crap on their Android releases (namely MotoBLUR) and honestly have not produced good phones in a while (which is why they started patent litigation before Google bought them out).

I work for a mobile dealer and most of the people in my department carry around a Galaxy S2. There is one person with an iPhone 4, and a manager who has both an iPhone 4 and a Galaxy S2. When he got the Galaxy S2, he disliked it at first but now uses it as his primary phone. Your mileage may vary, but there are good Android phones out there that either match or exceed anything Apple is offering provided you're willing to spend the extra money for it.

Everything's derivative at best. I would argue that The Colbert Report and The Daily Show are derivative of This Hour Has 22 Minutes. I also wouldn't call shows like Kids in the Hall short lived when it aired for 6 years.

Saying Canada has no culture and that anyone of sufficient talent ends up in the US and effectively becomes more "American" than their country of origin is a pretty nonsensical statement. The NHL is filled with primarily Canadian players but most of the teams are American. Does that make all those Canadians playing in the US more "American"? Does it make hockey more "American"?

Canada's culture is one of individualism, tolerance and acceptance. The nation needed bilingualism to survive from it's very early stages and because it was much slower to be settled than the US, the native populations thrived much longer and had much more influence on Canada as nation. Multiculturalism is built into the foundation of the country, which can't be said of most other countries in the world (especially not the US which aimed to be a giant melting pot that assimilated other cultures into their own rather than preserve and nurture individual cultural groups).

The British aren't known for lumberjacks, beavers, poutine or long harsh winters the last time I checked. They had no Terry Fox, Tragically Hip, RCMP or Anne of Green Gables. For such a small nation Canada has produced a wealth of artists, musicians, authors, comedians, athletes, television shows and film. If you're blind to it, then that's a shame but Canada has culture and it's a lot deeper and more complicated than you seem to realize.

We produce more than just generic and annoying superstars like Justin Beiber and Avril Lavigne. There are a lot of great Canadian musicians that may not be popular in the US and never needed to be. Here's a variety of good Canadian bands just off the top of my head:

The Arkells
The Arcade Fire
Constantines
Death From Above 1979
Elliott Brood
Hey Rosetta!
The Flatliners
Metric
The Weakerthans

I'm also a fan of Dine Alone Records and Deranged Records in terms of Canadian labels and the artists they represent.

I understand why people would be opposed to requiring a percentage of our media being purely Canadian content, but there are some great fringe benefits to it, like CBC Radio 3 which is arguably one the best radio stations in the world. And your ability to only cite shows and music that are successful in the US kind of gives these laws validity.

It has very limited HTML5 and CSS3 support when compared to Firefox and Chrome. Don't get me wrong, it's a respectable browser but it's still a good year behind everyone else.

I could unlock my friend's Android phone just by studying the smudge patterns on the touchscreen. I imagine this would be just as easy.

I dunno why, but when I heard "drone" I thought of something smaller and less conspicuous. This thing's easily 4 meters across.

I hate to burst your bubble but Canada has unions too. It was cheaper to manufacture things in Canada because we had a lower dollar up until the last 4 - 5 years when American banks and investors ran your country off a cliff.

You trust US run telecoms and they will just as readily hand over your call and internet history to the US government under the guise of "national security".