What about the flood?

My history may be way off but:

Didn't the Japanese move there recently (evolutionary timescale) from the mainland? There wouldn't be enough time for evolution to make an equivalent difference. Modern (same timescale) cultures can offset a lack in resources easily. After overcoming that hurdle, a small land mass can be a blessing for a country's development. One example is how much better their connectivity is because they don't need to span a country the size of the US.

Are both ends of the spectrum the best for a country's development? US = huge = tons of resources, japan = small = needs less resources. (I realize that there might be a lower limit to this, making this not work for tiny countries. There are also other factors that have led to Japan's success)

Anywhere in Japan.

There are laws to keep this from happening. It is already very easy to add a small speaker to posters to do this kind of thing. (Remember the Big Mouth Billy Bass) People would throw a fit and get such things taken down if they ever got to be so annoying... quit over-reacting people.

Not true, digital media degrades much faster than engraved rocks... You'll just have to make copies of your tombstone continuously to keep it "alive".

Make it like The Hive then...

If you still want to use FF with such old OSes then just keep 3.0.

Why should the few people that don't want to upgrade hold everyone else back?

They are using the high end market to drive the technology until it's cheap enough to work for everyday cars. This is a much better approach than the EV1 that started cheap.

Even better is TWILL

Yes. 1080p is the one thing that VLC has trouble playing.

For that I use CoreAVC Pro. It's a codec for Windows Media Player, which can then play 1080p without any trouble.

All of it.