I guess you just make it personal policy to be an anti-ambassador for the GPL?

Or maybe you believe haranguing people to your point of view works?

If you were downloading all of the rest for yourself, don't worry, the Miley Cyrus is an improvement of your taste.

What's depressing is the "anyone who doesn't agree with me must be getting paid for their opinion" mindset.

That's what gives rise to anti-intellectualism, you know - that wild arrogance is distasteful in the extreme.

It's always been fashionable to brand someone a troll when they don't blindly accept populist Slashdot tripe.

Were you born this retarded or did you work at it?

Yeah, those telemarketers are the 1% man.

Ah, the shill argument, the first resort of the "my opinion is obviously objectively right" nerd.

At least you have the courtesy to start out with a line that lets us know you have nothing useful to say.

It's not your lawn, Paul. We don't have to get off of it.

Doesn't even sound broken to me. Sounds reasonable - Apple invests time, money, and talent into creating something, and other companies can make money from that so long as they compensate Apple.

I don't get why that is "evil."

You could of course not upgrade to Lion. I know you deserve to have everything just as you want it, but it's hard to convince the rest of the world to line up to supply you :/

I can understand, from the outside looking in, hating the patent wars. I can even sort of understand preferring that people don't like Apple, although it requires an emotional commitment I can't summon in myself. What I don't get is the attitude that Apple is somehow "fucked" or "out of ideas" when it's pretty obvious they're doing just fine.

If you seriously hold that belief, you're allowing irrationality to prevent you from clearly understanding reality, and in the end, you only hurt yourself. If you just proclaim that belief as some sort of religious mantra... I don't know what to say. That's weird.

I'm pretty sure that "clever" slogans brought about by a minority opposition to a system only masquerade as wisdom...

There can be no certainty in the law by its nature, since the entire system is arbitrarily constructed by capricious individuals. Legislators are just barely held to the Constitution, never mind logic.

Lawyers and lawmakers are a sort of engineer, excepting that the natural physical universe does not constrain them to reality, so they can get as crazy-stupid as they like with it. I'd say they're celebrating that fact.

On the east coast we get away with saying things like "take 66 to 495" without confusing people.

Yeah, everything would be great if people weren't people, but they are, so it's important to learn to work with it.