In theory their business partners might lose confidence, but let's be frank most of Microsoft's business partners are entirely reliant on Microsoft

Besides, Microsoft's business partners don't have any confidence in Microsoft, and haven't for years. They just can't stomach the cost and disruption of switching to a different platform.

Can I sponsor a visa for you to come to the USA? You would be a good influence on many of our 'Christians'.

While it is true that correlation is not necessarily causation, where there is true causation, you will find a strong correlation. So looking for correlations is one way to find causations.

It could also simply be for example, (on average) more autistic people prefer and enjoy the look, patterning, practical ease of use, feel and/or smell of vinyl flooring.
But we are talking about kids developing autism around the age of two, because their parents chose vinyl flooring. So unless the parents have a genetic predisposition to both autism and vinyl flooring, or the toddler gets to pick out the flooring, then that explanation probably doesn't hold.

Only 5% of the nation is not ready according to Nielsen Ratings.

So 15 million people is no longer considered "a lot"? Wow.

A Slashcano erupted in their servers at 8:55 this morning.

When the charge is "torture", being "at war" is not a mitigating circumstance. If anything that just adds War Crime charges on top of the Human Rights Violations.

You're not the droid we're looking for.

Now, does that mean that he really is the droid we're looking for? Because Jedi mind tricks aside, those were exactly the droids that the stormtroopers were looking for.

I'm not sure how any OS is going to eliminate counterproductive fanboys and zealots.

Microsoft has already figured out how to nearly eliminate fanboys: Vista.

Big bang theorists have a belief, or faith if you will, in a theory forwards the notion that EVERYTHING came from a single infinitely massive object that exploded from nothing and caused everything to just "be".

No, scientists have a theory, based on evidence, that there was a big bang. One tiny shred of (verifiable) contradictory evidence, and the big bang would be disproven.

Where did the infinitely massive object come from? Does your faith in science tell you that it was just always there?

No, the only scientific answer to your question is, "We don't know." And that is the difference between science and religion.

I didn't even consider The Man of Change would want the status quo!

So advocating "Change", means advocating all change, even random, destructive, change? Trying to delay a change by four months until a support infrastructure is in place means wanting "the status quo"? What a strange and wonderful world you live in!

In Sweden the old analog system needed a directional antenna and getting a bounced signal meant ghosts in the TV picture. ... With digital it's not a bad thing with a bounced signal (off building or mountain).

In this case, I think your experience won't translate to the US. Europe uses DVB for their digital TV, with (I think) COFDM as the modulation scheme. The US is using ATSC, with 8VSB as the modulation scheme. From what I've read, 8VSB is much more prone to problems with 'multipath'. If your antenna gets a signal directly from a transmitter, and another copy of that signal (slightly delayed) bounced off of a nearby building, then it might be impossible to decode the digital stream. If the two signals are perfectly out-of-phase, even COFDM should fail (again, an assumption on my part), but COFDM is supposed to be more robust in the face of multi-path signals.

I signed up (in the USA) with "Anatomy Gifts Registry". They donate any usable organs, then any usable tissues, then the rest is "for research". Whether this ends up being med students, or specific studies, I'll never know. According to their paperwork, the only cost is a $10 shipping fee is you want your ashes sent to your family, after the research is over.

I don't think anyone knows for certain, and if there is someone out there who's done the science properly and has proof, they'll have a tough time being identified through all the BS on both sides of the argument.

And that is what the oil companies purchased when they funded research to cast doubt on climate change. They shouldn't get any credit for original thought, though; the tobacco companies did this dance for decades, casting doubt on both lung cancer causation, and nicotine's addictiveness.