It's OK. You weren't. I stopped reading once I got most of the way through the subject line.

" Microsoft is very good with backwards compatibility"

I am completely flabberghasted. They can't even keep backwards compatibility from one version of word to the next. It friggin blows my mind that someone would come here and post something that absurd. Seriously.

Oh come on! I can already hear the Reeses song in my head: Two great bloats that churn great together!

That's what she said

"It's why Cops dont have to call the mayor when they see a guy running into a bank with a gun in his hand and a big sack with a dollar sign painted on it."

Yeah. That's why I never paint a dollar sign on my big sack, or my gun either for that matter!

It seems you have no idea what the internet is, and have confused it with the web. Here's your sign ...

"This carries big implications in NSA's spying/QUANTUM program"

Oh, I totally agree. When the US no longer controls it they can exhert pressure to those that do, and then poin the finger elsewhere since they can say "But we don't control it anymore! We can't be held responsible!" Anybody who thinks the US won't control what they want through black-ops activities is an utter fool if they have been paying attention to any of this.

But given that they're doing everything in their power to kick out google and face book... I don't see it.

Stop pretending you didn't lose horribly. Its pathetic and it makes me feel sorry for you.

Sorry, finding new ways to rent out your car through an iPhone app is not any kind of Renaissance.

If anything, it's the decline of computer science from world-changing to trivial amusements for trivial, pointless people.

It works, so presumably they did address those issues ;-)

Also, photons don't have cross-talk. That is a specifically electro-magnetic phenomenon.

Unless cops, and I mean a lot of cops, start going to jail for their criminal behavior, then this isn't working at all. I know for 100% fact that many if not most cops are criminals who commit perjury and break the law on an almost daily basis. Yet, somehow, magically - none of them ever does anything illegal, and no matter what they do they are da officas! Dey wouldn't do nuttin' wrong! Sure they kicked a guy repeatedly in the head, but hey - you don't know what it's like to get such an adreneline rush just from the idea that you are going to be able to kick some poor bastard in the head and then get away with it! Can't you see man! It's OK, cause deys da coppas, and dey get excited, so you can't expect them to not kick a sick and helpless guy in the head, or shoot an old man ... just in case, don't ya know!

I'm sorry. I require that those with whom I might have a discussion like this have at least a modicum of reading comprehension ability coupled with at least semi-functioning logical facilities, but good luck finding someone who doesn't care about those things!

A particularly low vaccination rate, mostly. Along with Switzerland, it seems that most of the USA's trip-to-X-and-came-back-with-measles cases seem to be from France.

"If WW2 were to happen tomorrow, we'd still sit on the sidelines as long as possible and you can be sure that the second we declare war there will be protests in the street."

You mean unlike WW1, where we .... wait for it ... sat on the sidelines as long as possible? I don't know about protests, because there was no internet ot TV (as it exists today), so there may well have been many, many small local protests.