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well the internet naming system and top level domains such as .com .co.uk .net etc are all decided and registered by ICANN. They also have a large hand in deciding the new verions of convention, V6 is being rolled out throughout the ISPs to ensure that there are enough addresses to go round. And ICANN is owned and run by the USA currently, and they dont want the UN to take over.

Therefore I would say that the USA owns the internet.

Well I build computers for friends and family, and I always install Firefox as the default browser on it. You would need to install an add-on called IETab, and that allows you to open any website that needs IE, such as a lot of microsoft sites.
The reason i do it is because i have found it to be, and this is pretty much it first started out on the web as a fairly unknown browser, to be faster than IE, more secure - they put out updates very quickly to fix any found issues, unlike microsoft who tend to wait till patch tuesday of each month. It is tabbed, and tabs that work really easily and well, and once you have got use to working with tabs, you will wonder how you ever manged without them. It is so customisable, and that includes looks as well as add-ons.
YOu dont need to bookmark pages any more, as it now has the awesome bar, which remembers every site you have been to, so all you do is start to type the main part of the address, and it turns into a drop down list of all sites that have those letters in that you have been to, and the more you type, the more accurate it becomes.
It has been, in my opinion, writen for users needs, not what a large company think you require, hence the basic package that you then customise. And as previously mentioned, you can put ad-blockers in that actually work, also weather info bars, alter how google mail works with more options than google give, Skype has an add-on as does AVG so that they work better within the browser.
It genuinely makes the entire browsing experience so much better, easier and faster than IE or safari.
Oh, and the rumours are the next version of IE will only work in Vista, so you will be stuck with the limitations of the current version, Firefox just keeps on rolling out new, faster and better versions, and if your have an issue with it, you can just report the bug ro flaw, and someone will look into it, eventually admittily.

taken from wikipedia, and it agrees with what i was taught when i joined the forces years ago.

The term dates from the Middle Ages, where privates were known as "private soldiers" (a term still used in the United Kingdom) who were either hired, conscripted, or feudalized into service by a nobleman forming an army. The usage of Private dates from the 18th century, when the army of Napoleon Bonaparte first established the permanent rank of Soldat. They are sometimes known as 'Recruits'. In modern military parlance, 'Private' is shortened to 'Pte' in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries and to 'Pvt' in the United States. Also informally known in UK as a "Squaddie".

No of course not, they should make do with having to claim expenses that are audited like everyone else. They get paid a very good wage, have a number of other expenses they can claim without the need for a lump sum to help them have a second home. Personally I think that particular expense should be got rid of, as it is a left over from when it took days to travel the length of Britain. Now you can travel from Scotland to London in a matter of hours, and I am sure that there is a holiday express or similar that would welcome a block booking if they had to stay overnight in London occasionally. What makes it worse is that the MPs seem to think that they must curb the expenses and wages of everyone else, but cannot see that that should also include themselves. As an ex Armed Forces person, we had a maximum limit of £5 expenses that we could claim without proof, anything above that needed receipts, was audited and we only got minimal pay rises. They are hypocrite without a doubt.

I think its an instrumental version of STILL DRE by DR DRE.