Well, with that attitude nothing will ever get accomplished.
That's not true. I didn't say don't do anything, I just said the lawsuit seems pointless. The payout from the lawsuit could be effectively zero for the consumer. They could find more useful ways to exert pressure on the company than this (and when one considers that Lenovo is Chinese, which severely reduces the likelihood of getting a verdict against them enforced).
All that the class action suit would do is line the pockets of some opportunistic attorneys (who get paid regardless of the outcome).
Sega's downfall was failing to partner with Sony on a new platform
I thought the first playstation came about when Nintendo decided not to have Sony make a CD drive for their console. Did Sega really have a chance to make the same mistake?
as the "ideals of communism", AFAICT, are incompatible with reality
I will suspect that much like smitty (and, as best I have seen, every conservative to ever write on slashdot), you also have not read the Communist Manifesto, and hence have no clue what the ideals of Communism actually are.
The joke about "communism never having been tried"
There is no joke there.
"ISIS isn't Islamic"
But yet now the crusades and the Inquisition weren't Christian, Reagan wasn't conservative, etc... Funny reality some people like to project.
they'd already turned the thinkpad line into boring mass-market hunt-and-peck-optimised dvd ogling boxes. In that sense, I'd written them off years ago.
Really? I have used both IBM and Lenovo ThinkPads and while the Lenovo ones aren't quite as great as what IBM made, they are still vastly superior to any consumer laptop on the market today. You might be thinking of the IdeaPad line, which looks like a ThinkPad to a small degree but isn't nearly the same thing. The ThinkPads are still solid - and someone else pointed out they don't have Superfish on the, either.
Translation: our laptops are for consumers to buy crap online, and not for any kind of serious work.
Isn't that the case with pretty much every consumer-level laptop on the market today? This was a particularly bad case of pre-installed crapware, but I can't think of a laptop sold at any American retailer today that isn't guilty of the same.
If you want to do real work, skip windows and put an OS on your laptop that is useful for real work.
Also, my apologies for being a dick earlier. Sorry.
It makes me tired just having your journal entries pop up. I left slashdot for like a decade and came back and you're still here pumping these out every day!
Your question did not seem as serious as your statement, so I replied to the latter. It appeared you came here to bitch and moan rather than to actually seek an answer to your question.
I thought the main misfortune of Obama is that he was born in Liberia, or was it Haiti?
There is no shortage of birthers out there who are still dedicated to "answering" that question.
However, based on what many slashdot conservatives write, it appears that Obama's biggest failure is in the fact that he has the wrong consonant after his last name. His actual decisions and policies are demonstrably more conservative than their hero Reagan but he happens to be a democrat so he is automatically the antichrist.
I think you did not read last memo - it is all Putin's.
You're joking, right? Many of the slashdotters who dedicate themselves to blaming everything wrong in the world on Obama barely even know who Putin is. The likelihood that they would blame anything on him is quite nearly zero, especially as the official slashdot narrative remains that Obama is a closet communist/fascist/Islamist/anarchist/socialist/martian/illuminati who is femtoseconds from launching a new plan for world domination.
The best way to accelerate a Macintoy is at 9.8 meters per second per second.