There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

If Ford touted the security of their cars, but tapping "shave and a haircut" on the driver's window of any Ford unlocked the car, started the engine, and disabled any installed LoJacks, I could see a lawsuit.

Besides, Microsoft's business partners don't have any confidence in Microsoft, and haven't for years. They just can't stomach the cost and disruption of switching to a different platform.

While it is true that correlation is not necessarily causation, where there is true causation, you will find a strong correlation. So looking for correlations is one way to find causations.

It could also simply be for example, (on average) more autistic people prefer and enjoy the look, patterning, practical ease of use, feel and/or smell of vinyl flooring.
But we are talking about kids developing autism around the age of two, because their parents chose vinyl flooring. So unless the parents have a genetic predisposition to both autism and vinyl flooring, or the toddler gets to pick out the flooring, then that explanation probably doesn't hold.

So 15 million people is no longer considered "a lot"? Wow.

Now, does that mean that he really is the droid we're looking for? Because Jedi mind tricks aside, those were exactly the droids that the stormtroopers were looking for.

Microsoft has already figured out how to nearly eliminate fanboys: Vista.

No, scientists have a theory, based on evidence, that there was a big bang. One tiny shred of (verifiable) contradictory evidence, and the big bang would be disproven.

Where did the infinitely massive object come from? Does your faith in science tell you that it was just always there?

No, the only scientific answer to your question is, "We don't know." And that is the difference between science and religion.

So advocating "Change", means advocating all change, even random, destructive, change? Trying to delay a change by four months until a support infrastructure is in place means wanting "the status quo"? What a strange and wonderful world you live in!