Okay, okay, we're making good use of sarcastic italics, but we do have a point: we take such things for granted to the point where it might not have occurred to naysayers that just being able to minimize a window could make an operating system more user-friendly.

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That we have to joke about such horrible things as a military takeover though does show quite how dysfunctional European politics has become.

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We have to get used to such things .

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Since we have no plans to chase Chris Hoy around a velodrome, we don't want things such as drop handlebars, frames made from ingeniously lightweight materials or aerodynamically thin tires (which will buckle the moment they hit that pothole outside the post office).

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But we could do a lot to promote our cause in such a crisis if before things erupt we worked hard to demonstrate that we have sympathy for and an understanding of the concerns and sensibilities of others, even when they don't reciprocate.

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One level is the short term--what should we be doing immediately so that some of the really bad things we have seen won't be as easy to pull off or as likely to occur, such as the Madoff case.

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