Stupidity Watch 1

The generally recognized beginning of democracy was in 508 BC in Athens Greece where all free men of the city could vote. Men that were citizens of other city-states could not vote, women could not vote, children could not vote, and slaves could not vote. To begin with, women make up slightly more than 50% of the population, and in Ancient Greece with a male warrior population being killed in battle it was even higher, and there were two slaves for everyone one free person, add the children and the number comes out under 15%, probably closer to 10% of the population that could vote, and they had a senate that they elected to do the actual legislation. And for the next 2,400 years that is what democracy meant everywhere on the planet, that only free men could vote. Then in the 1820s and 1830s in the United States most states gave white men without property or money the right to vote, and in 1834 Great Britain began freeing slaves. The United States also freed the slaves in the 1860s and...

     Did you know that Google wrote the code for all Android phones? Did you know that this means that the default search engine on android phones is always Google search? Did you know that you can use Google Docs instead of a Microsoft Word file and it doesn't cost any money?      Did you know that Google paid Apple 15 billion dollars last year alone just to be able to have their search engine as the default search engine on Apple iPhones, iPads, and I assume computers as well? And finally, did you know that on the current iPhones this default search is so small that it appears to be only a tiny logo in the bottom center of an Apple iPhone desktop screen? Google is not getting their 15 billion dollars worth this year, because only the iPads have a Google search bar that is large enough to be easily visible. By writing the Android code in the first place, and by paying Apple to have their search bars on the Apple products, Google has over a 90% dominan...