Our society is sick because they value freedom of speech higher than internet pornography. That's quite an interesting ideology you have there.

You're completely ignoring the point. This isn't about YOU in particular. This is about the masses, and the masses decide what is popular and what is not.
Most people don't care about debian developers (or even know what debian is). Most people don't care about tech journalists. The truth is that most people use Facebook for playing shitty games and keeping in touch with friends. Most peoples' friends will be on Facebook, not Google+.
Therefore, most people are going to stay where their friends are. On Facebook.

To be fair, that goes for just about any object in the school. Should they get rid of door-handles too?

No, obviously not. I'm not saying these fingerprint scanners are a good idea, but their value is really not at all related to the possible spread of germs.

Not to get in the way of your rant, but I wouldn't mind seeing a reliable source to back up those claims.

It feels like I'm downloading nothing at all.

Nothing at all.

Nothing at all.

The Wikipedia article on him doesn't seem to have a picture of him. They must not have been able to find a picture of him without that ridiculous hat.

Ok, nevermind. I'm an idiot. I should've looked at the Youtube comments (that's probably the first and last time I'm every going to say that). Turns out it was just his recording program locking it at 20, rather than 60.

That really didn't look like 60 fps to me. I don't know if it was just the way it was recorded, or the guy's mouse but that didn't really look like it was achieved 'a solid 60 fps'.

I was completely unaware of that. Wouldn't mind seeing a link to these studies, as I find it quite interesting that I do the complete opposite of what you are saying. Yet I only speak English which has very few glyphs.
Sure, if there aren't any icons I can easily look at the text when I'm trying to find stuff, but if given the choice my eyes will naturally look for the logo.
In your example with Firefox, I would (and do) look for the logo. I would think more people would do this than you think. Hence why windows 7 just has an icon showing you what your minimised tab is, without the text.

I recall trying to become a member of Pirate Party Australia, then realising they wanted me to send them a $10 joining fee.

I decided I'd much rather set up my own party with the same name and same logo just to fuck with them.

Imagine you are sent and email containing a naked child. You choose to disregard it, as it is quite obviously spam (let's presume you have a terrible spam filter), but do not delete it. This thing sits, rotting away in the depths of your inbox. Seeing as you didn't take any steps to report the image, if the cops found out about this would you be on your way to a felony?

Funny you should mention that. I actually know a guy who couldn't get into the US for years because he was high up in the Communist Party of Australia. That's all changed now though, as terrorism, rather than communism, has become the flavour-of-the-month for politicians.

Holy crap, THAT was the most neutral example you could find?
I'm not too savvy with US news, as I'm from Australia, but is that normal?

>conservatives don't fix problems, at best they don't create new ones.

You haven't been in Victoria during a state-Liberal government have you?