I certainly see his commercials in Canada (albeit over American TV channels). I don't know anything about this law, but it's not working very well (or works only for exclusively Canadian TV stations and honestly there aren't a lot of those).

I agree with everything you said except the 'speed' part.

Eclipse in my experience is consistently faster than Netbeans (at least for small projects, any big project I do in Netbeans).

I don't know if you've ever actually used the ribbon, but every single button on the ribbon remains in the same place, it never changes. Static is in fact a big emphasis on the ribbon design you cannot move anything around.

The only 'context sensitive' part of it is that an additional tab opens up when you select a picture or table which gives you functionality for that table, but that tab always appears in the same place and the contents of that tab are also static.

In fact as a Firefox user I am pretty sure this feature started with Firefox before it made its way to IE

You can still use hotkeys on the ribbon (in fact when you hit alt it even helpfully shows you all the key hints), and it exposes a lot more functionality in fewer mouse clicks than the traditional menu.

I was skeptical of the ribbon at first, but now I love it.

Actually, it doesn't. Compared to the default office 2003 menu it's actually a few pixels slimmer.

Don't forget that there are deaths from coal outside mining it. Coal plants spew radioactive and toxic material directly into the air we breathe.

The moral of this story is that anecdotal evidence is anecdotal.

Note that if you run as a non-administrator account in Vista and try to do something that requires privilege escalation you get a password prompt on the UAC alert (exactly like in Linux or OSX).

If you run on an administrator account UAC only requires a mouse click to escalate your privileges.

Personally I'm surprised at people who'd used Linux before complaining about UAC, you'd think working with Linux would have taught them, the benefits of escalation password prompts and being able to run with limited privileges and escalating only if necessary

On the other hand, there are many past instances where pilots have panicked when things went bad and made terrible decisions that made things worse.

So pilots aren't immune from panicking in a sticky situation.

The soviet army didn't have medals or anything else during the early stages of WWII. You can do your own research on the topic, but overall it didn't work well for them (along with a lot of other things). It turns out people like being rewarded (even if it''s just a colorful emblem) for doing their job well. At the end of the war the Soviets had a whole bunch of different medals for their soldiers and realized that sometimes it's good to not treat everyone as equals. Anyway, just because others could have done what Sully had done doesn't mean Sully isn't a hero, Sully ACTUALLY did it, he actually saved hundreds of lives doing what he did and water landings are not a common occurrence at all. And just because I have the capability of pulling a little girl away from the train tracks doesn't mean I should get the same attention as the guy who actually pulled it off or that he should get less credit for doing a good deed.

Same here, this feature is absolutely awful and it boggles my mind why this is not disabled in Vista and Windows 7

I think it may be more accurate to say that 'Kanji' is the japanese pronunciation of the chinese character which in mandarin is pronounced 'Han Zi' and in both languages mean: "Han Character". The characters are written exactly the same, it's meaning is unchanged between the two languages, but the pronunciation is different.

,P.Honestly? I agree that the Tibet - China issue is a lot more complicated than evil communist takes over peaceful buddhist community, but I think saying China was the best thing that could have happened to Tibet is going a bit far don't you think?