I mean, they're not just facilitating the deaths of women and children, they're actually doing it! And people volunteer!

Too socialist for your tastes?

I like services. Services cost money. You're just a whiner who takes cost increases personally.

But yeah, you know, good point.

But modern science and industrial process does :)

I have to run a few utilities...drive encryption, firewall, scanners, etc... but I can install anything I want with no technical limitations. Policy yes, but my employer actually trusts me to heed policy.

We do plenty of innovation on our PCs :D

There was plenty of looting during the Egyptian unrest. And in Syria. And in Libya. You better believe there was looting when Iraq was invaded. Looters gonna loot!

Joe Tablet probably believes the app he downloaded is kicking 20% of the purchase to the developer. It's a dick move.

So they tell the public the developers get 20% but tell the developers they will get nothing.

Not a company I want to do business with. Already using their competitors due to their outsourcing to third world states when requested to track sales tax.

Witness the growth of laws protecting IP. Be it music, movies or patents.

Seems like Pete Earley has a book to sell!

Can't work without a car in most of this country. If the gov't makes it too hard to keep driving, just quit and go on welfare because you can't get to work.

Remember the 70s/80s when the USA trained rebels to foment civil war in Afghanistan because the Russians had more influence than we did? We trained Bin Laden and then sold him out when the Russians left the country. Our actions started civil strife that resulted in the destruction of much of the Afghani infrastructure and allowed the Taliban to rise.

9/11 was revenge.