Yeah, doesn't seem like you know anything about the history of China.

I would say that US is more pathetic. At least China keeps it within their own region. US takes it everywhere with ACTA, DMCA and actually making Verisign and ICANN remove domains for copyright infringement. China filters and doesn't affect other countries.

Regardless, the summary here is again written in such a manner that it's only there to gain responses like "fuck China!". They *are* very open about their policies. US less so, where everything seems to be done secretly. ACTA has been and is being pushed secretly too. Chinese people also want that kind of controlling of the internet. They know you can't change everything at once or it will lead to even more larger problems. They're slowly changing, but you can't do it at once, and people understand it. It's funny you Americans promote the idea of democracy but then want to force people of other countries to do as you do. Why can't let the Chinese choose themselves?

EU doesn't have a military. There is NATO, but even US is part of that and it's different.

The difference is that Facebook really doesn't ask you provide ID's or anything else unless you're actually abusing the service. I have an another account which I use to interact with different group of people from my real one (single women), with a fake name. Someone even notified Facebook of this, and they didn't do anything. Google+ would had immediately demand me to upload my ID to restore access. Likewise there are lots of people who use Facebook under alias.

Google has even said that pseudonymous Google+ profiles will be more limited than users with real names. Nice.

And all this bullshit is why FTC and EU are already investigating Google for exploiting monopoly status unfair competition practices. They don't seem to get it though, they just throw more gasoline into fire.

And yes, unfair competition practices can be applied to new technology too. It happened with Microsoft. It will happen with Google. That's why it's called precedent.

And also useless spam to your circles. I still use Facebook, but I've long time noticed it's not a good place to just put your random stuff. What happens with your life and you personally, yes, but if you want to post random stuff then reddit, forums or even chans are much better for that. You won't frustrate your friends then, either.

Hey retard, he's talking about overall market.

But the thing is, not all EU countries accept the same currency. UK, for example. EU also doesn't force new laws, it's up to all individual countries to set them up. And you can't really cross borders without being subject to customs. You can do it within Scandinavian countries, but that arrangement was established long before EU.

This is a story about Ubuntu and it being geared towards casual users. I doubt they visit server rooms very often.

No they haven't and that lie needs to stop. The reason why the tests Google did showed within Bing when Bing toolbar was installed because if users opt-in to it, it collects usage data on what links people click and their anchor texts. The reasoning for this being, if user thinks that the link is relevant, then it can be uses only one vector in Bing. It's only a really small part of it, but because Google used non-existing words within links they obviously didn't show any other results than Google's. And this behavior isn't limited to Bing only - Google uses tons of similar usage analysis to determine search page rankings and to gather information about new sites and pages.

According to StatCounter, Linux has a market share of 0.75%.

In comparison:
Windows: 85.00%
Mac OSX: 6.32%
iOS: 2.36%
Symbian: 2.15%
Android: 1.48%
GNU Linux: 0.75%
BlackBerry OS: 0.73%

I wouldn't call it popular just yet... Besides, I think Red Hat based distros like Fedora are much better than those based on Debian, and are the ones that should be introduced to new users. Fedora is way better than Ubuntu.

On another interesting note, it seems like Windows 7 just surpassed WinXP as the most popular OS, they're both holding around 40% market share. So yeah, Linux still needs some work, considering Windows 7 got there in just two years and XP was a hugely popular OS..

Police officers don't have special rights after hours, not at least here. And since France is another EU country, I think it's somewhat similar. They may know how to handle situations better and people might assume so if they know he is a police officer, but legally speaking there's no special rights.

Yes, but it's so visible. Everyone else in the world knows there's other places in the world. US people are mostly concerned about how far their closest Walmart and McDonalds are.

And for that matter putting medicines as "counterfeit" items just because they're generic meds manufactured more cheap elsewhere is just stupid and shows that US is mostly interested in protecting RIAA, MPAA and the big pharma companies.

I knew Americans are generally quite stupid and don't know anything about the world outside North America, but just for your information, European Union isn't a country.