Just changing business dress-code from heavy suites to shorts and t-shirts, business style certainly. Allowing people to dry clothings outdoors on special dryers.

All is needed is a development of a new modern business style fashion and outdoor driers which look esthetically acceptable. It seems to be doable and relatively law-cost tasks.

Programming is the Latin of the 21st century. It is not only about a speed, but also about the empathy, good style and taste in using a language.

Here is an article where it is described in the first lines, but is it in Russian. You may translate it in English via, say, Google Translator:

http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F

Lenin lived for many years in Geneva and in Zürich. He was a revolutionary.

After Great French Revolution of 1789 people also changed a lot of things. For example, the metric system of measurements, which is used all over the world now. They also wanted to change an hour to 100 minutes, a year to 10 months, but this did not work out.

I would say that Russian alphabet resembles ancient Greek one. At least, I was surprised that, knowing Russian, I could read names on ancient Greek stones.

Vladimir Lenin wanted to switch to Latin alphabet, but did not have enough time for this. He died in 1924, 4 years after the end of the Civil War.

English language and Latin alphabet are OK, are fine. But I enjoy ti read and watch movies in Russian too. It is not possible to compare. These are two different worlds.

I prefer to read a book in a language it was written on; the same about movies.

Usually, if someone starts to write in Russian language by Latin letters on a forum, it ends in a ban. No one does it anymore.

GEN H-4 - Smallest One-Man Helicopter http://www.likecool.com/GEN_H-4--Transportation--Car.html

OK. Creative.

Gay-Pride parade near the embassy? With dressed up people on trucks.

South American New Year carnival?

It is quite possible to transport urgent mail inside a city or shoot aerial videos with a light unmanned automatic quadrocopter. The problem is the battery, or the lack of a silent micro turbine.

I do not see a point of putting a man in such a dangerous environment if it can be done by a robot.

No one, not for any money wans to wash dishes in restaurants or clean public toilets.

If the problem solved in robust and realistic way, there would be the billions' market for such robotized devices.

A quadrocopter can fly without a man on top, be telecommand. In this case it will be light and safe to fly in a city.

The problem is the battery. What is needed is the miniature silent gas turbine, so that it can fly not 10 minutes, but 2 hours.

A country is not something monolithic. It consists of different people, with different views and agendas. More than that, sometimes people do something good, another time - bad.

Dissidents of 70s were always persecuted for crimes, but never for their publications. Sometimes also for mental illness.

Any society is built on a generally accepted set of lies. That is why the truth is painful.

Julian Assange is the leader of a world movement for freedom of expression. He is an inspiration to many around the world. This movement is loosely coupled via Internet.

What we see in Egypt, in Moscow, in Virginia, etc. is the direct result of his work.

Julian Assange and Bradley Manning are the first western dissidents. They continue the humanity's work of freedom and truth together with such courageous people as Natan Sharansky, Andrey Sakharov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

American and Australian people be proud that mother-nature sent them this time to those parts.

I fly Ardrone2 http://ardrone2.parrot.com/ quadrocopter. It can record HD video on USB stick during flight.

I know that aerial videos are often interesting and revealing about an area. Why did not they make such a video on landing? We could see the Gale crater, Mount Sharp ourselves from above, with our own eyes, in high quality, in color. USB stick weighs about 10 grams (1/3 ounces).

Such videos could cause a real interest in society to exploration.

Why "Troll"? It would be a good marketing step to send an effective HD video and photos immediately on landing.

In this universe everything is marketing and selling. Everything. Since money was invented in Mesopotamia about 5000 - 6000 years ago.

The HD color camera weighs about 3 ounces (100 grams). 99% of people will never pay attention to the "Curiosity" anymore. But it had its chance on landing. The whole world was watching. I've heard people were saying on seeing first black and white blurry photos: "This is it?", "My phone makes better pictures."

And then complaints that they do not get enough money for missions.

The first impression is important. All know that.

Then why Curiosity's first images are of worse quality than those of "Lunokhod 1" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_1 in 1970?

Yes the percentage of sulfate in rocks is important, but we want to see HD color images and HD videos from Mars. Real time. Not when someone important decides to release a black and white photo.