The disturbing part is:

... shows you might not change your mind, even if you get evidence to the contrary

What?! I don't know how people can live this way.

You can thank the government corporate and IP laws for eliminating competition and causing this mess.

The resistance to support WebP in Mozilla seems to be more politically motivated than technical.

What I'm throwing out there isn't random. They are situations that involve coercion and my point is that whenever there's coercion, the dollar value represented isn't accurate. More coercion equals more distortion.

The U.S. spent more on defense in 2012 than did the countries with the next 10 highest defense budgets combined! http://pgpf.org/Chart-Archive/...

Do you really think the US is that paranoid that they'll be attacked or do they use this army to coerce other countries in doing what they want?

I understand how economics is suppose to work but it never does when there's coercion involved.

I like the irony there. You're resorting to an ad hominem because of your lack of intellect to come up with anything better. Any counter arguments to the petrocurrency or do you just have more insults?

I was pointing out one of the reasons the US dollar's value didn't reflect its economic output. Here's another. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...

I guess I have to connect the dots for you. The US government forces its citizens to pay taxes in US Dollars. This creates a demand for the US Dollar not because it is valuable or because it is backed by economic output of the US, but because it is the only form of payment that the government accepts. What are you missing here?

US government only accepts their dollar to pay taxes.

Fixed that for you

At least the US dollar is backed by guns of the US government

It's the opposite. You gotta be careful when entrusting your money to a cash instrument. I would much rather own an object that many people want than cash. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...

AmiMoJo said:

That's false and is my point.

Right, and they're actually quite helpful too now. When the NSA needed help to crack some systems, MS did the right thing. http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

I stopped reading after:

IE is the most standards compliant browser which uses the least of W3C unsupported specs compared to webkit and mozilla

Wrong. Even IE11 can't match Firefox and Chrome. http://beta.caniuse.com/#featu...

Last I checked I could not run anything I wanted on my XBOX/360/One.

You have presented absolutely zero evidence for the reason why you do not trust Apple and Google and yet your comment is rated Insightful! I don't know who's been messing around with the moderation system but a git revert is needed tout de suite.