The only questionable portion was if the nation of Cuba was performing a P.R. stunt in giving those people health care, but regardless of if it was or not…the United States’ system is not that generous…as the movie showed prior to those scenes.

My favorite parts of the film where the dispelling of the typical assumptions about nationalized systems (like the U.K. and France) and single-payor systems (like Canada). I’ve long been a fan of France’s employee rights laws too…like their shorter work weeks, generous vacation time, along with their encouragement of wellness.

I feel like I’m pretty informed for the most part about other country’s systems, but there were a number of things that made me stop the movie and say aloud, “You have got to be kidding me!” It blows my mind that the United States is so corporate-minded and so often anti-citizen.

http://deoxy.org/korten_index.htm

http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml

You can write a letter online, if you wish! Also, they list mailing addresses and office phone numbers to contact people with.

http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2024800820091122

I think what Google is addressing are those actions that require a network connection to perform at all, e.g. e-mail, web-browsing, social networks, online radio, streaming video (YouTube, Hulu, etc.), instant messages, SMS, etc.

Lots of people get on a computer, and outside of having their photos and music on their computer….EVERYTHING else they do is online. And it is that last part that ChromeOS is really focusing on.

All that being said…MacOS X 10.6 will boot in 10 seconds from solid-state disks, which is pretty close to ChromeOS’s 4 seconds.

I suppose as the internet becomes more readily available worldwide and the speed sees universal increases some of my concerns could be alleviated, but those two issues still don’t address them all.