But you can use Gmail even if your friends/coworkers/etc. don't have it. If you're the only one in your social circle on Wave, it's useless. I tried it, thought oh, maybe this would be nice if more people are on it, but that never quite happened fast enough.

Lawsuits against god have been filed. Wikipedia lists at least two factual instances (and numerous fictional ones). And I have a dim recollection of reading, at some point in the past, about a few additional suits vs. the deity that didn't make their way into Wikipedia's hallowed pages.

Lawsuits vs. god

The logical solution is to have juries composed solely of omniscient robots.

While modern Turks are certainly descendents of people who have been living there a good long time, they did, in fact, originate in Central Asia. "Turk" was sort of generic designation, adopted by Arabs, applied to most of the Turkic speaking tribes they encountered in Central Asia. Eventually, some of those tribes ended up in Turkey.

My point, which you so very cleverly missed, is that Turks are not Arabs. If, as you claim, you knew that in the first place, than your original statement - "Turks are arabs, no matter how much they pretend otherwise." - is a touch disingenuous.

Well no, actually. They are Muslim. But Muslim != Arab. Turks are an ethnic group originating in Central Asia.

I don't think that being Muslim means that one necessarily must demand that one's government is Islamic as well. Just as there are Christians in the US who don't necessarily want a Christian theocracy, why is it so shocking that Muslims in Turkey (which, as you pointed out, has a long history of being fiercely secular) would feel similarly. You might be a little confused as to what being Muslim entails.

Adults, having the benefit of maturity, are able to be stupid in ways which would be impossible for a child.

Because then when your car is stolen, you can be super fucked. Why not up the ante, and use your car as a giant filing cabinet for all your important documents as well?

Duh. Steam powered rocket.

No weight and no bulk? What is it made out of, magic?

Buddhism comes from India. Acupuncture comes from China. The monk in question was Vietnamese. "Same people" is a bit of a stretch.

Actually, record enough garbage and insure that the important bits are forever buried in said garbage. See John Crowley's short story 'Snow' for an example, involving a technology similar to the one under discussion. Of course, the comparison doesn't quite work since his version allowed for only random access to data. That said, even if access is non-random, it might prove harder than you'd think, barring some high powered visual indexing, to get to the data you might be interested in.

There I go, relying on Wikipedia again. Probably should have researched more before pounding out my quibble.

It's probably worth noting, just for the record, that the Tea Party protests/movement started in January 2009 at the earliest. You may have been protesting back in December 2008, but it wasn't the Tea Party.