hcaulfield

It's not BS? Really? Did you happen to notice any of his citations? You know, videos on YouTube, counterpunch articles, other reliable sources like that.

You're also probably not including the part in the comments where he says Federal spending has to be cut 134% to "balance the economy," citing an article he read somewhere but can't seem to track down right now. And then the part where he repeats the unsourced, unexplained claim.

C'mon. The guy's a crank, and not even a Jude Wanniski-caliber crank. Just because he hates WIPO doesn't mean he's right about anything else.

"Xerox gave us the mouse,"

No, Doug Engelbart gave us the mouse. You may wish to go through the rest of your list and fact-check it. There's a nice on-line encyclopedia you can use at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ ; I forget what large corporation invented wikis and later funded the application of them to encyclopedias.

Threads may be the most confusing way in existence to take advantage of multiple cores. Berkeley's Edward A. Lee has a lot to say about it in his paper "The Problem with Threads" ( http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2006/EECS-2006-1.... ).