I'm a Finn, so naturally my surroundings differ largely from yours - but don't apartment buildings have a special storage area just for bikes (and baby strollers)? Now that I have said that aloud, it occurs to me that for those to exist, you would need the architect to consider such things and the inhabitants to have suitable trust for each other to store their bikes in a common room. It may well be that neither of these happen in New York, but what would I know?

I was not sure if you said what you did in jest.. I read it more like "biking is all very well, but it does not have any use other than as a hobby". I bike to work (when it's reasonably warm) few times a week, but on the other hand the bike road is well marked and I only have to stay in the traffic for only few kilometres. What I know of NYC, this would not, of course, be the case for you.

But everything was to be taken in good spirits. I'm sorry if I came across as rude.

You are apparently not aware of child trailers? Some models have space for two kids and even for one or two shopping bags.

They're surprisingly light, and if you own a mountain bike, you should be able to handle one of these.

Accoarding to wikipedia

Horse meat is the culinary name for meat cut from a horse. It is slightly sweet, tender, low in fat, and high in protein.

Sauce.

That article also mentions that Horse meat oversells lamb and mutton in Sweden and is called hamburger meat, which makes you wonder if McD is going along with the plot..

MacBook Pro costs 1149 in Germany, Finland and France - probably in the whole euro-area, but can't be bothered to check. MacBook Pro costs 12 495 crowns (1156,94) in Sweden MacBook Pro costs 1199$ (856,42) in the United States. At some point, Mac Mini cost hundred euros more in Sweden than in the monetary union, and there it cost hundred euros more than in the States.

In case this comes out as a surprise; if the stores don't order XP-N, people will never get it. And why should stores order lesser product, particularly as it was priced the same as "better" version of the same OS? Sure, you can request it to be ordered, but Microsoft never went out of the way to mention that the whole version even existed. So the demand wasn't really there. Please don't draw EU citizens into this. We didn't go around shouting that Americans hate Bush and want him out of power. Please offer us the same courtesy, particularly as the courts here do ok job.

You seem awfully exited of some foreign court order from five years ago. I suggest you go around and check what your local judges are up to, and let us Europeans work with our legal system, all right? After all, you seem to be raging because Microsoft gets fined and asked to do some stuff that ended up not working. You seem to mistake that just because Slashdot only reports EU/Microsoft court news, there are no other news. I can assure you that most of the "milking" comes from local companies.

Yes, apparently it's the same problem as with America != USA. Few more years, and I can successfully argue that Norwegians, Swiss and Macedonia aren't European!

Oh boy! I can hardly wait!

Not in Germany, they wont.