Same with my desktop. I keep one Windows computer for games though.

you do not understand it.

Companies do not offshore jobs for tax breaks. They don't even do it because of regulations.

Companies offshore because of one simple thing: wages. The wage differential between offshore-happy countries and the U.S. is far above 20 to 1. This is a bigger factor than regulations or taxes combined.

Reduce the minimum wage and you'll have more people trying to take 2 and 3 jobs to make ends meet.

Plus the price of energy will never reduce drastically. Not ever. Which means that when the minimum wage is gone, food transportation costs will drive the price of food out of reach for millions. That means mass starvation and CIVIL WAR.

No, really, you will not ever show how energy will ever become 10 times cheaper. You will not even show how energy prices will drop even by 10%. Ever. Not happening.

Apparently there is no market for people who know history. Which means nobody's taking history as a major and in a few generations we'll have no historians.

That's a bug, not a feature.

How much does it cost for criminal interests to bribe a call center employee or manager in America? How about India?

And how does the FBI expect to prosecute someone in India for stealing Americans' personal information?

Whitey? What about the "darkies" in America? Their unemployment is FAR higher than any unemployment in China or India.

No one talks about how "free trade" affects non-white employment in America.

"and now india is not only becoming a superpower, but taking entire industries away from angloamerican sphere. talk about what goes around comes around."

And when the US dollar collapses because of the socialism we need to support our unemployed, India will have no customers because outsourced labor will become too expensive for America. What will India do then? Or China, for that matter? Or the Middle East, Brazil, and everyone else who depends on exports to America?

Ayn Rand may have been an idiot but this would be a real case of a John Galt effect.

and I can clearly see that beelsebob has done his/her research.

http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2524922&cid=38053256

"FAA certification is a farce. A government agency says the plane is ok? Ya, that makes me feel better. How about a private enterprise that"

Smart move. The private enterprise needs money to function, too. So they'll have their fees that they charge.

Tell ya what. You go move to a country with a private version of the FAA. And every time you hear the roar of a plane engine overhead you can pray.

De-fund schools so that parents, who have a hard enough time making ends meet with two incomes, have no options for educating their kids?

Great move.

We're getting our butts kicked by cheap labor countries whose kids are coming up as educated or better, in Government-funded schools. Imagine how badly we'll get beat when there's no schools for most of our kids... except for the wealthy 1% who can afford private school.

While putting more Americans out of work and onto the welfare system.

Seriously, all you're suggesting is we exchange mythical British overlords with Chinese debt-holding overlords.

so loud I woke up my wife and kids.

Get real proof of this so-called Russian mafia connection, then bring in the DHS and the FBI.

You never know when those Federal agencies will decide they're sick and tired of all the unlicensed foreign competitors in the American organized crime business.

EA hands you that glass of purple kool-aid and you just drink it without a second thought?

Given what these corporations have done in the past you HAVE GOT to be drinking the kool-aid to believe they won't sell any information they get, to third parties. They may even do so illegally.

"The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer." - Henry Kissinger. And it applies to Corporations, too.

Never, ever give sensitive information to anyone you do not trust. Always monitor every app you use and know fully what information it transmits. Paranoia? Hardly. It's the most basic law of survival.