It not about what a single individual (you) thinks he can get away with by passing the costs onto another. Its about what removes inefficiencies from the system in general, and avoids the tragedy of the commons that we have now - which is that individuals acting under rational self interest reduce the general welfare of society as a whole.

It looks like my adblock plus in Chrome is blocking this already

By your logic I can put a 10 foot tall dildo on an elementary school's front lawn.

Seems pretty clear to me that the Supreme Court disagrees with you.

So atheists asking for equal rights makes them have more rights? No, you self-entitled religious crybaby.

Vendor Lock-in.

...or is that three

I can attest to this also. Recently got my gf into Zombicide, Catan, Munchkin and others.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain

This is the important part. Walled gardens are inherently more secure, it has nothing to do with Apple's competence.

anyone been able to crack the admin pwd yet?

Adblock+Ghostery+Downloading all my movies/tv. I don't get any advertising, let alone that which "follows" me.

Other advantage of gmail is it actually groups "conversations" so you don't end up with 100 emails for a long running converstation. Email becomes like a thread that you are subscribed to (with reply all) instead of a cluster fuck of messages all over the place. If people are smart about it you can easily take people in and out of the thread (we usually start emails with -Somebody or +Somebody when we do that).

I believe cyanogenmod allows you to fine-tune application permissions.

Actually the web/html is the analogy of English. Sending doc files around is antiquated, and if someone wants to send me one they better send it in a standard format.