You mention Japan, and couldn't figure out a proper example of legitimate use?

Just to point out how shortsighted you are; tsunami warnings and seconds-before-earthquake-strikes warnings. (I've gotten a few magnitude 6 warnings after the Touhoku quake, before they all downgraded due to being false positives information)

The issue with unilaterally deciding that military action against a location deep within a peaceful country is legal and justified, you create a situation where terrorism would also by extension also be legal and justified.

Basically what separates the attacks against WTC and the attack against the Abbottabad compound is one of scale.

Do you guys have access to google yet?

You're underestimating the impact on quality due to imperial units... Just look at the Mars prove that crashed due to ignoring the obvious benefits of SI based data channels.

MySpace has always been shit... And except for lol-privacy-panic crowd FaceBook actually has a pretty damn decent service. Ever notice how uncluttered the site is?

Really sad to see that Nokia didn't have the confidence in their hardware design and manufacture skill to give Android a chance. They never were in a position to build a proper platform for the current generation of smartphones, so instead they sold their soul to MicroSoft for scraps.

Seriously, if you dismiss the future due to low margin of commodity platforms you better have something amazing to sell, like Apple does.

When there's a summary mentioning Tetris or Pacman, do you also then want a brief definition of what those games are about?

You're like the guy who get's stingy on buying a GPS unit for his new $100.000 boat that he had to take up a loan to pay for. Sure it's an additional couple of hundred bucks, but when you've just borrowed the cost equivalent of a house then something useful (and possibly lifesaving) that costs almost nothing is _NOT_ wasted money.

Horse whip makers were saved by the rise in BDSM.

So you instead support a system where the rich pay no taxes on income nor do they pay taxes on their consumption?

Of course the Republicans didn't spend more the past two years, they weren't in power! (Having the house doesn't count, as that's more of a stalemate)

Sometimes I get quite amazed at how stupid people in the US really are.

Except one blew lots of plutonium and other fun stuff into the atmosphere, while the other has released mostly radioactive iodine and cesium.

Uhm... Did you miss the Cold War?

Eastern and Western Europe is nor a strict geographic divide, it's an economic and historical one. The Nordic countries are part of Western Europe.

WTF?... You're an idiot...

Unless of course you don't include Scandinavia and Finland in 'Western Europe'. Those countries that are pretty much the model of the social democratic principle. UK only my ass.

Dizzy? Were you perhaps riding on a roller-coaster while this happened?

A little shaking is all we got down here in the Tokyo area.