FYI quite a few Canadians fought in the US Civil War.

The article mentions all of this could be resolved if the Russians would just sign the formal agreement paperwork (form # URN8-NP) to have a legal document verifying they agree to the terms and for liability reasons.

> as they gas up their SUVs

  That's another problem, people are so fixated on the SUV they fail to see the 1980 Cadillac with the 400 cu in gas guzzler motor, or the 2007 Honda that burns as much fuel as the SUV. It's the amount of energy used that's the problem, not what the vehicle looks like, people get hysterical when they see something they believe is the cause of a problem and are blind to anything else which may be just as bad or worse.

It's the sequel to 'Snakes on a Plane' it's 'Bats on a Shuttle'.

Netflix, Hulu, Xbox, Linux .iso distros, online storage such as Dropbox aka 'cloud storage', VoIP all of which are perfectly legal and none of an an ISPs damn business if you're within the range of "unlimited" or whatever the cap is.

Offtopic but, am I the only one who finds it ironic, and funny, that a person with the username "Defeat_Globalism" is using the World Wide Web?

If Mozilla wants Firefox to be the #1 web browser but they don't want it to be bundled with Windows how would a person with a new computer get FF?

  Obviously they'd have to use IE or Opera which would then decrease Firefox's market share since the competition's browser has to be used to get on the web and then download FF.

> it's basicly reduced to being a biological docking station, charging you up for the next day's work,

  Love that!

I've even heard of people with fairly large generators, 5000W and over, who just take the power cord from the generator and plug the other end into a wall socket sending power throughout the house.

  Of course it will also go to the power line system, so if you're power is out and the power company is working on the lines by your house you may give them a bit of a shock, literally.

  As for generators I would try to get a diesel generator, they're much more durable and in a pinch you may be able to use vegetable oil as a fuel.

Instead of making a commercial that's a copy of a Apple's idea, it'll be a copy of a copy, how about coming up with something original?

  In a way it is what GNU/Linux has become, we chase the other guys because they have the market share but then we (users of GNU/Linux) say we're different than Windows and OS X.

  The people who buy the company line are just doing it in part because it's what is thrown at them and they figure everyone else is doing it so it must be cool to own a small, white music devices or to 'lease' your music that's in a proprietary format that could disappear at the whim of a company...apparently that's better than never having to worry about your 30 GBs of mp3s suddenly becoming unplayable.

  The only way to be better is to ignore what their marketing departments have come up with and listen to your friends, we are the people who make the Open Source experience and not some department that works 9 to 5, Mon to Fri.