My only qualm is it's been hijacked well beyond its initial namesake cause of shrinking the bloated spending into almost every old Republican grievance.

Hijacked? That's what they were intended to be from the very start.

The Tea Party is dead. The corpse just hasn't stopped twitching yet.

It's "Hawking". He is a singular individual.

Frankly I think that ATi has made a huge engineering mistake by only focusing on Win32 and by not supporting Unix from day one as a first class citizen,

Yeah, how stupid of them to focus on a platform that has 90%+ of the market. Clearly it would have been a better decision to dump all their resources into a niche platform.

Thanks for unilaterally deciding what's "fair" for us.

How do you lower unemployment? Increase demand. How do you increase demand? Give people more money. How do you give people more money? Raise the minimum wage.

1. No, but if you want to make a commercial enterprise, don't come looking to me for a free hand out to get it started.

I trust them. I mean, LeVar knows a little something about running an Enterprise.

Corporations are ruthless about improving their product and cutting costs

Well, you're half right.

I've been hearing "x86 is holding is back" for, oh, over 20 years now.

Man, I know Reagan was terrible, but I wasn't aware he was responsible for Atari Pac-Man and E.T.

but once people started marketing those with other goods that had an established perceived value guess what happened?

A few people hoarded them and drove the price artificially high?

Surely RMS isn't this one-dimensional.

He is that one-dimensional.

And don't call me Shirley.

He doesn't care if FLOSS is far slower, is less polished, or is outright worse. Propietary software is just not to be considered because it always has many disadvantages.

So being slower, less polished, or outright wrong aren't disadvantages?

Nature gives me the right to rip someone off and profit from their work? Huh. They didn't teach us that in Biology 101.

The Yoda fight wasn't bad either.

The most inaccurate sentence.