That's the point. American companies losing every public contract abroad, because nobody believes their claims of disabled wiretapping.

As non-American I am also very much in favour - this should be huge boost for IT sector everywhere outside US.

Or you could do cat program.exe > /dev/dsp . I just proved that program in is fact collection of sounds.

Oh, I am sure my Great Idea will survive in the market just fine, however it won't benefit my company at all. Immediately after putting it on market, bigger and richer competition will just copy it, set up mass production and use huge advertising campaign to grab all sales. In this case why should I even bother trying to innovate?

Or redirects all WM8 clients to goat porn.

I would say that the tipping point was twisting "regulation of interstate commerce" into bullshit rule covering pretty much eveything. Or maybe secession war - it shown that states that abandoning USA if they find federal law unbearable is not an option.

Actually Ribbentrop proposed that Poland joins anti-soviet pact during meeting with ambassador Lipski on 24 Oct 1938 . It was of course declined.

And here ladies and gentlemen we have fine specimen of religious reasoning - "I don't believe it, so it cannot be true"

It is only about as efficient as H.264 *baseline profile*. Considering that recent hardware (even phones) has no problems with h.264 high profile, VP8 is in fact far behind.

At least not until you make codec that is radically different. All current codecs are based on the same stuff - some variant of cosine transform, macroblocks, motion vectors. Just small improvements of concepts from MPEG2.

No, the main function of version control is ... version control.

And we are back to feminist rule number one: everything is men's fault. Bunch of feminists is talking crazy? Of course it must be patriarchal conspiracy to weaken feminists and oppress women!

New definition of sexism: everything that feminists don't agree with.

Could we? Easily accessible deposits of any useful ore or fuel has been mined out ages ago. We could find ourselves in situation when we need resources to build tools, but without those tools we cannot access resources.