As a resident of one of the mentioned problem countries, I think it might be helpful to point towards an organization to rally behind to oppose the secrecy:

ACTA workgroup of the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure e.V.

I know exactly what you mean. It's great to be the cream.

Unlikely.

Humility can't be taught, only learnt. And speaking from the last few millennia, 5% of people at most are willing to learn it.

Well, he certainly suffers from an inflated ego.

Most reviled person? The most significant thing I can tell about him is he's your average paid pen who'll write anything and everything for a steady income stream, barely worth mentioning, let alone reviling. Pity maybe, then swiftly forget.

I'm inclined to believe there's a fair amount of people who, when their time comes, would just love to perish as the iPhone is perishing now.

The Company sold 8.7 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 100 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. (Apple Reports First Quarter Results, 2010/01/25)

Or this one. Funny that it was considered completely no-go back then while it will hardly raise an eyebrow today.

While I don't know anything about that, you're probably right. Anyway, I wasn't going for "Wrong, this is how it really was" but for "Oh, this reminds me". I should have been clearer.

Much earlier than that in a different part of the world, it was customary for Buddhist and Taoist monks to sign their written musings not with their own name but those of their teachers.

Right, this poll is completely meaningless until the question "or else?" is answered.

I'm not sure if you meant this already, but screen doesn't disconnect anything, except SSH's output to and input from the terminal, and that only in a redirecting sense. Detaching from a screen that's running ssh will leave the SSH connection open exactly as if there was no screen involved. Anyway, OP is off-topic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continents#Number_of_continents

You're right, I did. So with 2<delimiter>4+5<delimiter>6+*<print> we're up to 10 strokes for RPN, too.

The <enter> is not part of the RPN. More correctly, you don't need it exactly because you're using RPN, which works on a stack. Values get pushed on, operations pop values off the stack. 2 4 + 5 6 + * P works just fine.

You add 2 and 4 to the stack, then execute + (on TOS and TOS-1), so TOS is now 6. You then add 5 and 6 to the stack, exec + again to get a stack of 6 and 11, on which finally you execute * to get a TOS of 66.

A reverse-polish calculator stores numbers on a stack. Entering a number pushes it on the stack. Arithmetic operations pop arguments off the stack and push the results.

Manual page dc(1), ll. 22-24

% echo "2 4 + 5 6 + * P" | dc
66

Yes, they applied for a European banking license in Luxembourg, a country best known for its friendliness towards big financial players and its status as a tax haven in general, themselves.

Now why would they do that voluntarily? Hint: It's not because they think they should be regulated more strictly.

Mr. Gates' grammar is perfectly valid. There is no hard and fast rule not to put prepositions at the end of the sentence. The aesthetics may displease you, but I'd rather you not force yours on your students, or us.