Google has this functionality built-in for years: search for "(amount) (unit) in (other unit)", e.g. 120 fahrenheit in celsius and you get a result page with a gadget to adjust the query.

There's a lesson we Germans learned in the Nuremburg Trials, taught to us by amongs others, the U.S. Americans: if the laws of your current government are discriminating against basic human rights, it's not only "OK" to ignore those laws, but you are in fact encouraged - if not even obliged, to oppose that government.

And here's the link to an archived site of what Vint Cerf actually said/wrote

VP Gore was the first or surely among the first of the members of Congress to become a strong supporter of advanced networking while he served as Senator. As far back as 1986, he was holding hearings on this subject (supercomputing, fiber networks...) and asking about their promise and what could be done to realize them. Bob Kahn, with whom I worked to develop the Internet design in 1973, participated in several hearings held by then-Senator Gore and I recall that Bob introduced the term ``information infrastructure'' in one hearing in 1986. It was clear that as a Senator and now as Vice President, Gore has made it a point to be as well-informed as possible on technology and issues that surround it. As Senator, VP Gore was highly supportive of the research community's efforts to explore new networking capabilities and to extend access to supercomputers by way of NSFNET and its successors, the High Performance Computing and Communication program (which included the National Research and Education Network initiative), and as Vice President, he has been very responsive to recommendations made, for example, by the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee that endorsed additional research funding for next generation fundamental research in software and related topics. If you look at the last 30-35 years of network development, you'll find many people who have made major contributions without which the Internet would not be the vibrant, growing and exciting thing it is today. The creation of a new information infrastructure requires the willing efforts of thousands if not millions of participants and we've seen leadership from many quarters, all of it needed, to move the Internet towards increased availability and utility around the world. While it is not accurate to say that VP Gore invented Internet, he has played a powerful role in policy terms that has supported its continued growth and application, for which we should be thankful. We're fortunate to have senior level members of Congress and the Administration who embrace new technology and have the vision to see how it can be put to work for national and global benefit.

For Russians there is: look up i.e. Yandex.ru's properties and products.

Depends entirely on the geeks.

... and the country one grew up in. Dr. Who for example was never aired in free TV in Germany, afiak. But ofc every German geek should know Raumpatrouille Orion.

You and I might find that it lacks quality, but the HP books achieved something very worthwhile: millions of kids started reading books again. Some of which have never read a book themselves before.

Thunderbird has been abandoned and hasn't seen any major improvements for about the past decade.

...which I consider to be a good thing, having witnessed what improvements have been added to the once clean and useful Firefox UI.

Why not go one step further, do "the right thing" and use ADO Prepared Statements?

If anything, the vast amount of empty space makes large-scale facilities of any kind easier.

Exactly. Germany's one of the countries with the highest population density. There's simply no room for wind turbines or big solar panel fields or big farms for bio-fuel crop. And yet we manage to cramp them in somewhere.

Don't complain - invent! That once has made the U.S.A. one of the most successful countries of the world.

No, it's not. It's a decimal comma.

The VB6 development environment doesn't even run on any supported operating system.

My Visual Studio 6 runs just fine on Win 7+8, thank you very much ...

"Ownership" is quite a broad term and not a good measurement for this discussion. For example, according to the WaffG (gun's law), when inheriting a gun you need to prove that you've got a need for a (working) gun. If you can't prove that, but still want to own the gun, a blocking device needs to be mounted to the gun and all rounds handed over.

Blank guns - if you want to carry them around - also need to be registered and therefore are part of those numbers.

"Owning guns" and "owning guns capable to kill" is quite an important difference. To me, at least.

What success? The UK is an island, in case you didn't notice.

Well, if you don't accept the UK, take Germany as an example. Although you might argue that Europe + Asia "is just an island" ...

For those that want the old GUI back: Classic Theme Restorer.

If you ask me, there's a very simple and understandable reason for this sensibility: Europe hosted its share of tyrannic oppressive regimes over the centuries, all of which used accumulated data to oppress their opponents. For once people seemed to have learned a thing from history.