Before returning to the topic, may I suggest that North America and South America are two of this World's continents, often defined as New World as opposed to Old World, and that the national language of San Paulo is named Brazilian Portuguese, and not American Portuguese. I consider this nomenclature to be respectful of the "Spherical Earth Society" mentality.

Luckily for my childhood, Australia managed to remain a Commonwealth country and spoke the Queen's English when I went to school, so the first I knew of the post-1776 US Eng. was from watching Sesame Street on b&w television. It has its merits as a concise version, and not so many undersights and flaws in the spoken usage as it does in print, but lucky, multi-lingual me to consider myself a native English speaker with US Eng. as a second language. That is all Webster's is.

The natural ontopic example might be Lima. Peruvians are American citizens. Lucky for them as for other less Wi-Fi savvy population groups and those of us from rich nations who cannot afford the ADSL charges, we only have to spend a few hours looking over the latest breaking Yahoo! bulletins to realise that it is nothing more than herd-syndrome entertainment for the masses, like after-school television.

If that's the 'news' that is only available to the rich and famous, then thank your lucky stars that most of the population of the planet cannot even afford Internet at all.

I use Linux myself, and that is a blessing, but the Australian government still see fit to let the commercial carpet-baggers take their dues on the ISP fees. Maybe it's time they woke up to the Third Millenium and helped the media onslaught of our collective senses?