All of this, and many times over.

wait, there are only two?

no, it's not - Socialism requires a governmental restriction on freedoms of choice in order to function properly. Without those governmental restrictions, the market is free to find competitive advantages that may differ from the will of "the collective". The only way to ensure that Socialism works is to enforce it through legislation to limit competition. There's a reason Marx said that Socialism will eventually lead to Communism. Communism has historically been militaristic and lethally suppressive by nature, and it's really the only way to enforce the complete cooperation between all members of a society. (Single party rule, anyone?)

because if it's presented at news, then the anti-corporate knuckledraggers can spin their Wheel of Blame to point to the "story" as an example of [insert result from wheel of blame here].

This week's spin seems to have landed on "greed".

...says the AC

well, that one's easy: Liberal Guilt (as I have labelled it here, in capitals) is derived from other people's collective actions or inactions and not on the actions or inactions of the person feeling guilty... Conservative Guilt, then, would be derived from what the individual feeling guilty does or doesn't do. It's a pretty consistent pattern on both fronts. One can have both, although not usually on the same topic.

Anon, Anon C., you should have posted non-anon.

/+5 cometh for thee (or something like that)

who's "we", in your statement exactly? The company building the datacenter and infrastructure is owned by the Navajo Nation.

Go swallow your Liberal Guilt for a while and join the rest of us in reality. We have cake.

read the parent without the word "additionally" in the third sentence; it's the same idea, and probably shouldn't have been characterized quite the way it ended up being.

It triggers the learning center of the brain BECAUSE it forces you to utilize short-term memory and summarize ideas in your own way.

I disagree - I've been using a Surface Pro since launch, and I love it. It has replaced my desktop computer and my Apple laptop that I had kept for reasons I've completely forgotten now. It may not be for you, but for my needs (mobile IT consultant for medium-sized businesses), it's perfect. Windows on a tablet DOES work, most assuredly. (Note, I don't mean RT, since that's mostly a reply to iOS anyway and not a target for desktop replacement)

There are workarounds to this already in use. Bitinstant is one that promises trusted "instant" transactions for bitcoin with specific vendors, although they're reworking their website right now. Others will follow. It'll be a matter of dealing with trusted big-name transaction clearinghouses that settle bitcoin transactions in real-time between their own customers while also transmitting to the network for inclusion in the chain later.

I was tolerant of your posts until you started changing other people's words in your quotes so as to attack them. I gave you the benefit of the doubt on the trolling accusations, but you slipped up pretty big once you went down that road. The sad thing is that once you're outed as a troll, you lose your troll powers (at least, for the current thread.) Looks like you lost this one. Better luck next time, I guess.

You speak as if all companies are equally bad. Somehow, I think you're either young or more sheltered than you believe you are.

prior to widescreen, I was forced to buy non-widescreen monitors. Because the manufacturers gave me no alternative other than standard aspect ratios. It was sad that those decisions were forcing developers to design their software for such a limited space (desktops and the programs on them) to work around the limitations of that particular screen ratio, even for people who would have preferred to buy widescreen instead. And then, because the software was designed to fit, it was used as an argument on why the aspect ratio should never change.