How many great inventors are there? Only Tesla?

Being an expert on Tesla doesn't make you an expert on Edison. Maybe you should broaden your reading. Is Tesla the only one who can attain the rank of "great inventor"? Weren't the phonograph or the quadruplex telegraph or the dozens of inventions relating to telegraphs and sound he invented BEFORE he even opened his lab great inventions?

He also was a great inventor before he opened his lab. Just because the Internet has an obsession over Tesla, doesn't make everything you read about Edison true (or make up for the stuff you don't read).

Edison was also an inventor himself that made many innovative machines. Later in life he advanced to running a lab that people don't like the ethics of, but he was certainly no manager type exploiting an industry like some people believe.

The same people that support them now? At least with a modern operating system they have a better chance of getting support for applications released in the past decade.

I tried to setup a new XP virtual PC the other day from an old CD.

Apparently windows update needed an update but there wasn't an easy way to get it. Went to the microsoft update webpage...and it didn't work in IE6. Had to get the latest IE - but actually not since that doesn't work, fortunately IE8 worked (because I had SP2). Finally got it to allow me to update windows update and then a few more rounds of updates getting the latest service pack and then windows update worked normally!

The strange thing is this isn't a problem all that unique to XP - I set up a win 7 machine earlier straight out of the box from HP - it wouldn't let me install all the updates at once, had to do them a few at a time.

While mobile phones probably refers to texting and different apps more than calling, it seems they conveniently left TV as an option. I didn't see anything about limiting themselves to only TV channels/shows available in 1986. This could easily just push the kids off the computer onto the couch in front of the TV

So you're saying we should deport him back to Kenya or something? There's also a good chance that they would be dead AND more people (including Libyan civiilians) would have died if Obama had sent reinforcements - then we'd be hearing the Fox News crowd blaming Obama for recklessly sending troops around.

How about a step to reform election laws to third party candidates are actually viable? Voting third party or "none of the above" isn't that helpful if the congress just gets to appoint a president when no one gets the electoral votes.

So what do you suggest? A non-democratic solution? Move to a dictatorship? Seems like the wrong direction to me

Yeah! So who are we running for President?

Well if you don't mind being addicted and the costs related to it, then go ahead and do it.

Drones used for surveillance would likely be small sized ones so they could fit nicely in a trunk

In reality they have limited resources so they have to pick and choose which cases they take. Would it be better for more cases to be brought because gun rights groups are jumping in to help or fewer because the ACLU is devoting more resources to 2nd amendment cases over less popular 5th amendment cases?

It's kind of a waste of resources for the ACLU to defend 2nd amendment cases. The NRA and other groups are eager to fill the gap whereas there are fewer groups for other civil liberties.