"So the #1 greenhouse polluter (USA) and it's sycophant underling (Australia) refused to sign because infrastructure would be crippled. Why then did every other developed nation in the world sign up?"

To *look* like they gave a shit. We all signed up but we didn't DO anything. The US should have just done what Canada did, sign the damn thing and then ignore it. The greenies couldn't bash the US for not signing Kyoto and when they tried to bash for non-complience the US could just say - we're doing as well or better than most of the other signatories (which they are)

If you were an Owner of Windows - that you've already purchased, oh, let's say about 5 times... And each time you buy it and buy a new system to catch up to it it seems to leak more severely than the last time... And then you found out that all the damage your system has taken and all the work you have lost, all the productivity you've lost and frustration wasted - was all due to faults which were known about at the time of release . . . Well - frankly - I think this continues to go way beyond borders, governments or lawyers - Microsoft owe every pitiful user of their exploitive code something more: I was thinking along the lines of bringing back the pillory - and each week putting a Microsoft department-head randomly in it - only until the bugs are all gone...