Really, that's only half true.

http://www.securecomputing.net.au/News/246707,egyptians-turn-to-tor-to-organise-dissent-online.aspx

I'm not sure why I should potentially lower my conversion rate by hassling people to upgrade their browser. That seems like Microsoft's job, not mine.

Maybe they could use the same features that redirect you to msn.com or bing to redirect you to a browser selection page, no? In the mean time, I will just keep including stylesheets for IE6 that do some graceful degredation. It won't look great, but it won't be illegible.

Besides, it seems like most IE6 users in this age are enterprise clients who can't upgrade until their vendors start supporting new browsers, or until the interprise itself gets rid of legacy programs.

There are so many OSS/FOSS repositories out there. I'd love to see them help foster the copyleft movement and get a directory of creative commons art, audio, video, and ui elements. It would both benefit Linux itself, and attract high traffic for people looking for stock photos etc. thus, ad revenue.

Who says our brains work any differently?

In fact it's easy to argue that the random arrangements of nuero-transmitters and nueroreceptors in your head dictate from birth every reaction to every experience you will ever have.

The only thing that sets us apart from animals is a) the ability for abstract thought b) thumbs. If your argument was that computers need to be able to think abstractly about the world and how to combine things to make new things, then maybe you're on to something. If your argument is that humans are somehow not subject to strict hard rules on our behavior, I think you overestimate humanity.