According to this article from The Economist the most common background for politicians word wide is Law (surprise!) and then comes (in order) Business, Diplomacy, Military, Journalism, Economics, Medicine, Academia, and Engineering.

Almost 20% of the politicians had a Law background while about 7% had an Engineering background.

No. Piracy is holding back PC gaming. PC sales are ridiculous low for most single-player, non-casual, PC games. Game publishers are doing the natural thing; focusing on consoles where the problem of piracy is much, much smaller.

IMHO the industry should be commended that it, unlike some other industries, fight piracy by changing it's way of doing business instead of choosing the path of litigation and legislation.

You americans are funny!

Google already has a opt-out solution for all you privacy-doubters.

Don't know about searching, but 9/11 caused several of the worlds largest news sites to be inaccessible for over an hour.

The actual article: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2284752.ece