> Norway and Iceland, two countries that continue to whale, get around the IWC’s 1986 moratorium by simply rejecting it.

http://time.com/43674/japanese-whaling-ban-wont-end-the-whale-wars/

> "Most security professionals consider Microsoft the bar every other vendor should strive to meet."

Computerworld said it, so it must be true.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9246837/Perspective_Microsoft_risks_security_reputation_ruin_by_retiring_XP?pageNumber=2

Why not doctors, lawyers, accountants, engineers, scientists, teachers, etc?

Laws, accounting practices, medical practices, etc. change all the time.

In most professions, you get more valuable as you gain experience. Why do people think it's the opposite in tech?

Tech workers will endlessly bitch and moan about how unfair all of this is. As if that all that griping would actually change anything.

If you want to change anything, you need to organize, raise money, and lobby.

Like it or not, that is how the government works: money talks, and bullshit walks. And complaining, without campaign contributions, is just bullshit.

Doctors, lawyers, and others learned to organize, and protect their careers. Tech workers do just the opposite. Tech workers stab each other in the back so they will be the last ones fired.

Funny thing is: the visa workers are also victims of all this.

Techies are smart in some ways, but not very smart in others.

Pay people enough and there will not be a shortage.

Make it understood that the developer's job is not constantly threatened by cheaper offshore workers.

Linux is amazingly fast and easy to install. Windows takes all day because the multiple updates, and reboots.

How is LibreOffice more difficult than MS-Office? At least LibreOffice does not *constantly* make radical changes in the interface. And LibreOffice does not have that awful "ribbon."

We should all give in, and help perpetuate Microsoft's abusive monopoly.

We should absolutely insure that nobody else ever gets a chance to penetrate Microsoft's market.

Isn't that what you are really saying?

BTW: I use Google apps, LibreOffice, and MS-Office. I have no problem with it.

Microsoft is losing market share like mad. Everybody hates their new OSos.

In the most dynamic part of the market: tablets and phones, Microsoft is totally failing.

We may be *finally* seeing an end to Microsoft's abusive stranglehold on the industry.

Maybe we should be teaching kids iOS and Android?

Having recently gone from a Ford, to a Nissan, I can assure you: you do not know what you are posting about.

Consider Google's start page. It was around for years. Used, and relied upon, by millions. No doubt it was highly useful in getting people to use Google.

Then Google yanked it for absolutely no good reason.

Please do not post incorrect information.

I use Google apps all the time. I even got Google certified for Google apps.

I really want to like Google. I am sick to death of Microsoft's abusive monopoly.

But Google apps are poor quality. Google seems unwilling to fix serious bugs that have existed for years. Google drive does not sync worth a damn. And there is still no Linux client.

Again, I really want to like Google, but Google makes it more, and more, difficult.

Maybe you need to educate yourself.