There's a Geneva Convention specifically designed to cause blindness? Whatever will the Swiss think of next?

In Latin America I have often heard the box you plug the mouse, keyboard and monitor into referred to as the "CPU". Now having a hard drive inside your CPU, that would be cool :-)

Or maybe just ensure they don't carry CD cases on top of their head...

.....and your data source for this claim is where exactly???

Having had a similar experience I'm very tempted to report the suppliers of these products to Trading Standards (UK) as it is a clear case of mis-representing the product being sold. It's perfectly possibly to make an accurate comparison by using lumens, I can think of only one reason why suppliers don't do this - because they wish to misrepresent the product. Having said that, some suppliers do quote lumens in some cases, but it needs to be consistent.

You're not supposed to RTFA, idiot!

It's worse than that - they want you to think that all filesharing of music/video is illegal, which isn't true either. The trouble is, the music and video content that doesn't come from them and is perfectly legal to share is in fact produced by their competitors. So in stopping you sharing 'their' content, they also have an incentive to stop you sharing anybody else's content. Sharing of linux distros or software is really an irrelevance here, what they're really doing is trying to stop Joe Public's mindshare from drifting away from them and their offerings.

If you look like a creepy psychopath when you're not smiling, it'll work just fine.

So the UK passports are using unhappy chips, which are unable to store the digital fingerprint of a face that is smiling?

Just remember to keep your cheesy grin all the time you're at the airport, and you'll be perfectly OK.