@Conrad Martin: Good, another one of those well backed up, excellently phrased arguments.....sigh. Trouncing how? Market share?

I have never used anything other than Internet Explorer. As an IT professional it made sense to use what my end clients are using.

@petarro: Debian, real? Like most trolls your proof just astounds me! I am really shocked by your amazing powers of argument and logic and your uncanny way to bring me around to your way of thinking. Yes, let me get rid of all my Windows OS base and go Debian. Whew, my life is so much better now that I have joined…

@Dr Emilio Lizardo: They could have spent their time more productivley bringing a new reality television show to American television?

@FreudianNipSlip: Oh, and X Factor, Big Brother and most other "reality TV" is a real good use of time? What do you think the average Westerner spends more time on, phychology (even be it a fairly shakey one) or reality TV and which do you think they should spend more time on?

@ManchuCandidate: I figure that falls under bonding behaviour. I mean if ones's partner can put up with that then he/she should think about that partner as a real keeper.

@DrLight: Well there is definitely inequality. Religion gets to conduct all of its business tax free. Science does not. At least give science, which saves more lives than religion, some breaks. I don’t understand why everybody is so defensive of religion but the second science looks at something like atomic…

Never too late to start! But trust me, older, dumber and slower only kick in at around 38.

I don't know, I always feel that something like "Sorry, I screwed up...I am not going to say anything more than to ask you to judge me not by my screw-ups, but by my future actions...and then if I screw up again, you can really throw the book at me." is a little more sincere than loads of talk about how terrible you…

@xxdesmus: I use clocks, weather, CPU and memory and the currency converter as I am travelling all of the time. I don't think I have ever found a third party one that I really enjoyed but the basic Windows ones do it for me.

Syndrome from The Incredibles

With the way that my brain works it makes it very difficult to remember people's names, especially when I am being introduced to more than 5 at a time. To combat this, I simply apologise. I have never met anybody except one complete (insert any deeply insulting word) who said that he thought I was lazy or stupid…

The phrase European socialism pretty much destroyed my interest in this article. Perhaps it is time for Americans to realise that they cannot generalise about Europe in this sort of way. Some of the cultures in Europe are far more capitalistic in some ways than the U.S.A. but one generally finds much more balance in…

The only reason that I am going to comment on this is to put forward my first rule, which is never care what the critics say.

@mullingitover: Hmmmm, yes, I am sure that Steve B. is panicking because you have not spoken to any real people who have any interest in Windows Phone 7. Remember that corporate and executive interest drove the smart phone market initially and whatever type of phone you currently fanboy over should thank those first…

@Dancing Milkcarton: Yes, yes, each year open source is going to rule the world.....yawn. Probably only sandal-wearing, bearded-hippies that care anyway. You could get a life you know.

Yup, this sucks that it is free only to people who have an internet termination and an address in the USA. There is something wrong with the way the media companies are dealing with us....