Thank you for sparing my the trouble of writing that.

I'll just add that the incredibly secret leaked documents are available at the project website.

It's a research project, they always "want" to implement a demo. Judging from my experience with FP7 projects, either they won't, or they'll do it in one of the participating labs.

That myth has been disproved so many times on /. that it's not even funny.

You, as many slashdot users, seem to be a bit confused on the meaning of the word democracy. The concept you seem to be referring to is that of direct democracy. Most democracies today are representative democracies, in which the "rule of the people" is carried out by their elected representatives. It is not at odds with the concept of republic: most western countries are republics (of varied kinds), and they're all (all that I can think of) democratic.

Which studies?

Because Sweden's health system is ranked much higher, life expectancy is much higher, and preventable deaths are much fewer.

The iPhone, Blackberry's Storm and Bold lines, and many Symbian and Android handsets

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And many/most Windows Mobile smartphones had it too, before half of these even existed. And it's not like they're at a disadvantage for "GPS games", e.g. Geocaching Live is only available for Java/WinMo. I know this is Slashdot, but come on...

Not really so, not in all of Europe at least. Here you don't really have to present your criminal record unless you're applying for some security-related post. And aid programs would never ask for such information. So yeah, there are some thing you can't do, but you're not sentenced to an entire life of misery.

Not really, there's a little something called diplomatic immunity on the way.

You'll have met some new people by 2018, don't worry.

And games, you can just hear the publishers: "But games nowadays need so much content that we'll have to increase prices to 120â".

You are mostly right, but PB does have its flaws, and the "unlucky few" are sometimes more than a few. For an example, just go to the Battlefield Heroes forum.

And here we were, talking about freedom.

as nobody uses them.

Over here we have phone ads on TV that really emphasize the fact that they are Android-based. I guess it must be an European thing...

In Canadian English, the word government is used to refer both to the whole set of institutions that govern the country, as well as the current political leadership, although with the latter usage the word is usually capitalized to make the distinction.[2] Thus, Canadians would say that Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Government is currently administering the Canadian government. Contrasts can be drawn with the British usage, where the government is referred to as the state, and the American usage, where the Government is referred to as the administration.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Canada