It gave me many hours/years of joyful biased windows/microsoft bashing. :) Not as good as when Windows 95/98 were still mainstream, but it was all I had. :{

I'm not going to argue about the rest of your arguments, but I will take the claim that the democratic domino started in Iraq with a pinch of salt. That sounds, to me, like pure speculation. Not that there is anything wrong with speculation, but to put it as fact is misleading to others.