AFAIK the USA has lost all wars it started.
The story always repeats itself: the war is just, they insist it can be won, then must retreat.
The pattern is that of a sale being forced upon the american people, they are to buy something they didn't even know they wanted to begin with.
There is a precedent for this type of government: they are called Banana Republics.

The world is growing tired of american delusionism.

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Welcome to the Divided States of America.

For $20 a Digital TV dongle allows me to assist TV (and radio) wherever I go. Just in the corner of the screen. I don't have to look most of the time. I can record that program at 06:30. The mystery: why aren't they standard equipment??

I had an idea and developed it. The company patented it and now they are trying to sell it. I talked to them, said it was my idea, and more so, the exclusive fruit of my personal history. According to them there is nothing to discuss: they acted within legal bounds, as they were unwilling to bend the rules in any individual case, like mine.

This is an analogy. The camera is like an idea, and the government produced it. Mitchell took it. He valued it. It would have slammed into the moon without him. He gave it historic value. Now the government says that this historic value isn't his.

As a developer with ideas I find this ironic. When it's me, the government doesn't care. In the plot of things it is the voice that says it can take my labour and that I should shut the fuck up. Because it is the law, and only the law is allowed to speak.

Web layout doesn't yet have a proper 2 column layout mode. Much needed. And Yes, the concept implies "pages". Opera has seen the light. Once again.