It's not a fallacy. Since the days of Windows 3.1, these assholes have existed in large numbers.

I don't think that word means what you think it does.

And I've now seen people excoriate MS for trying new things and trying to innovate.

I have no idea how true it is, but I've seen at least one person comment (maybe on a blog) that Windows 8 reminds him of a cross between Windows 7 and Gnome 3. If so, it gives me even more reasons to be glad that I use Linux and Xfce. (I started out with Gnome 2, but switched to Xfce when I read about what Gnome 3 was going to be like.)

Well, I suppose that I could touch mine if I wanted to. I don't, but that's because my girlfriend always enjoys watching how it reacts when she touches it.

All your meme are belong to us!

I believe the word you want is "audiophule." You know, the type that claims that they can hear differences that an oscilloscope doesn't show?

OK, I can understand that. I don't agree with it, but I understand it. And, the reason that I don't agree with it is that AFAIK there's nothing in Communist ideology that would dictate that type of conduct, any more than there's anything in Bushido that could be used to justify the Rape of Nanking. BTW, back in '71, I saw a documentary on that war that included some newsreel footage from Nanking; I'm still trying to forget some of the images.

That was an ideological difference between the two that prevents the Germans from being willing to surrender German territory to the Soviets...

That wasn't the biggest reason that the Germans fought so much harder in the East during the final days of the war. They considered the Soviets to be little more than animals, and if you'll read accounts of how they acted, e.g., raping every female they found from 8 to 80, you'll see that the Germans were, to some extent, trying to make sure that they surrendered to the western allies, who they could trust to act in a civilized manner. Aside from that, I have no disagreement with your premise.

As I recall, people were very surprised to find out just how different the other side of the Moon is. Right up until the pictures came back everybody expected that both sides would be much more similar than they turned out to be.

Had we been ready to prosecute even one front of the war in December 1941 we could have easily saved Europe from being totally taken by Germany...

You are aware, aren't you, that the Battle of France started on May 10, 1940 and ended on June 22, 1940, almost a year and a half before the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.

Workers are lazy and will not produce if they don't have to.

"As long as they pretend to pay us, we'll pretend to work."

How can Europeans know that censorship ends poorly when nobody's allowed to tell them about it?

This has been tried and tried and tried and it's never worked. And yet, here we have Jaroen Janssen crying, "This time, for sure!"

Two questions: first, do you tell your students that you're going to be doing this? (I ask because it it would say quite a bit about the plagiarizers if they knew in advance that you'd be checking.) Second, how do they try to justify their actions when they're caught?

No, it doesn't beg the question, it asks the question. Mr. Pot, may I introduce Mr. Kettle?

Actually, it's exactly the kind of change I was expecting. Right from the start, I realized that he was very careful not to give even the slightest hint of what kind of change he was thinking of, and presumed that he meant "change for the worse." From all I can see, I was right.