So? I haven't attributed it to Bill Gates, the quote as I wrote it functions as a meme and it applies well as a comment to EU idea. Get some sense of humour.

640kB should be enough for anybody.

Look at how confident Firefox developers are!

There is no absolute freedom, if someone's freedom to shoot planes high power lasers collides with my freedom to safely do air travel, I say -- fuck THEIR freedom.

So what. If the range is 2-5 meters and bandwidth is in Gbps, it has a potential to remove the cable clutter from my desk, allows me to connect my laptop to my TV just by sitting in front of it and I don't have to worry too much that my neighbours will do man-in-the-middle.

over 50% of US electrical production is from coal it's not like an electrical vehicle produces zero CO2

Then why don't we decrease efficiency loss of electricity production by burning coal in vehicles directly? ;-)

If noise prevents you from working and you are unable to get used to it -- move to a quiter environment. I stopped noticing church bells, police sirens, etc. at all after 2 or 3 months of living where I live now. That's a nice thing about human mind -- it adapts to constant stimuli levels.

$ ls -lAh /usr/bin/disper
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1,3K pa 19 2011 /usr/bin/disper

Is 1,3K app good enough for you? Disper is also great when configured for Meta+Fn keys in KDE, I have a simple way of switching display modes almost as good as the one on Windows 7.

I went Debian->Ubuntu Server on my servers.

Last time I checked, there were more than 1 000 000 000 Chinese people. 5% of it is still 50 million people, they would need 130% market share in my country to have so many users ;-)

The belief that nowhere on earth offers 'basic freedoms' is a reasonable one

Why is it reasonable? Got any proof?

I could choose what I did with my life, what I studied, where I live, where and how I work. I can speak freely and am mostly free to do what I please as long as I do not disturb other people's freedom. That's "basic freedoms" if you ask me. If you think that we're all slaves because corporations and corrupt governments rule and we have mortgages or are married or whatever -- that's your opinion. Do not present it as facts.

That's a lot of porn.

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Awww. You think you have clean air and basic freedoms. That's cute.

Yeah, being able to comment about my freedom (or lack of it) without risking death penalty makes living where I live a little bit better than in China. And, water here is still blue and air is transparent. Not like on pictures I've seen from China, but of course they were photoshopped.

Yeah, who needs clean air and water or basic freedoms when one can download music for free.

With my broadband internet connection. I pay the same price for 150/10Mbps pipe that I used to pay for 60/6Mbps one, so I could say that those licences are really free. I guess that's one way they can convince people to use them. I have no choice to give those licenses back and get a discount. I don't think Microsoft has nothing out of it.