Given that their monopoly abuse is what led to this clusterfuck they should provide patches until the end of time.

I'd dispute that British youth would support the removal of the NHS which as we all know is an attack on people's fundamental freedom to die of preventable diseases

Because they identify themselves as libertarian? Are they lying? How do I tell?

Define basic services. I've had libertarians on here say that fire services should be provided by the private sector and anyone who can't afford to pay should spend what little free time they have after working 80 hours a week just to feed their kids as a volunteer fireman. A lot of people would argue that things like education and healthcare are also basic services since they contribute to the well-being of the nation.

Until you have to unblock a toilet.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who hates that patronising phrase. You're not dying of starvation or disease so you should be happy all the time.

Yeah we've still got a few of them too. They work and rarely need any changes so they'll probably last a few more years. Server 2012 supports it so it's not going away quietly.

VB.NET is still very much alive.

Not to mention that even if they were in the solar system they wouldn't necessarily be in a form we'd recognise as life. The premise of the Fermi Paradox seems very simplistic to me, as if aliens would just turn up in flying saucers and be humanoids. You only need to look at how diverse life is on one single planet to imagine how utterly different an alien could be to us.

They managed to build huge fucking pyramids thousands of years before whitey managed to figure out how to make a house.

Exactly. We can barely detect planets never mind any kind of starship or technological civilization.

Capitalism didn't create the internet or WWW that you're currently talking shit on. In fact we learned today that the FCC is going to allow capitalists to fuck the internet up at least in the US.

And yet without governments there would be no space technology.

I have to pay my mortgage now. I can't afford to wait for your utopia.

And a well-armed citizenry has prevented precisely none of those abuses.