Minecraft allows people to run their own servers, for free, and is doing awfully well.

Yes, but how much more would it make if all those private servers were monetized? Which you might remember as RIAA's logic on downloads. I'm beginning to suspect your average businessman simply doesn't comprehend the concept of nonlinear functions.

The deal is, I pay money for a game, which I can then play as much as I like. Take it or leave it. They're leaving it.

What's wrong with Good Old Games?

The irony here is that penguinoid is empathically projecting a common human sense of empathy onto a group whose most defining characteristic is the lack of it.

Not necessarily. If you attack people for insignificant reasons, such as a few pennies, you'll end up in prison or dead pretty soon. Whether you refrain due to empathy, cold calculation of risks and benefits, or some abstract philosophical principles is irrelevant.

If your view is anything other than "it's a shirt" then you're the one with the problem, not me.

This is grown-up stuff. The thoughts you had as a fifteen year-old don't cut it when you're discussing with grown ups.

If SJWs were only expressing their ideas, that would be one thing. They're actively harassing the scientist to the point where he had to issue a public apology to try and get them to back off.

You can read my views on the shirt. Just don't misrepresent them, child.

The base Debian system should use the basic init system.

Look, no matter what you think of systemd, rewriting it in Visual Basic would not be an improvement.

Spot on. Every single failure I've seen of an internal communications tool that wasn't Email or IM failed because of a lack of one of the three things you mentioned. They are tools, but they need to much more help to grow than something that everyone has to use, like a case system or a CRM.

I worked in the past at a company that did something similar to a "Facebook at work". The number one rule to get people to use it: never, EVER call it "Facebook for work". Call it "Shining Communications Turd", "Chainsaw through productivity", "Free Crack", just don't call it "Facebook for work".

I think Facebook might have a bigger uphill battle here than it thinks.

Where did you work, the NSA?

I chalk it off to them being immature twats, but mostly it's that people are people, and a good chunk of humanity are just idiots.

Their actions managed to further their cause. So they might be twats, but hardly idiots. And that means they'll act like twats again the next time.

You don't meet many experienced C++ programmers who want to spend their days using Java instead, now, do you?

You don't meet many people who want to work with tools other than what they're used to, in any field.

They may have a reason that seems insignificant to the end user, but you don't get to be the biggest company on the planet by making decisions like this for no reason.

1) Apple is not the biggest company on the planet.

2) Succesful people make really dumb decisions all the time, because their success has blinded them to risks. This is known as hubris. Not understanding that getting succesful and staying succesful are separate skills has been the downfall of too many people, companies and entire nations to count.

Don't worry - we'll be increasing energy prices and exporting our pollution to China, now that Obama has a new agreement to do just that. So we'll get even more unemployed to buy even more cheap crap from Walmart, and they can hire even more 29-hour-per-week part-timers that will live on food stamps and heavy subsidies from Obamacare.

So what would you prefer? Competing on price with Chinese labor, in which case those employed in manufacturing will also fall on food stamps and Walmart crap? Or perhaps you'd like to breath smog, like the Chinese are doing thanks to their lack of pollution controls?

Economy is going to stay in a death spiral as long as supply exceeds demand. And since demand depends on supply - closing a factory means less people who can afford anything, which leads to more factories closing, and so on - the only way to stop the spiral is to pay a greater proportion of earnings as wages. And the only way to do that without tragedy of the commons rising its ugly head is to force the issue through mandating a higher minimum wage. An unconditional citizen pay would be even better, since it would guarantee a cycle-independent baseline demand, but is unlikely to pass until the conomy completely crashes, which a modern nation is unlikely to survive.

Ultimately, we're seeing the effects of pre-industrial economic model being pushed beyond its limits. Free market is a fine tool for adjusting resource usage for optimal outcome, but labor is not just another resource due to the feedback effect it has to demand, and capitalism simply can't deal with a situation where it's no longer the resource that limits output. Our economy is dying due to being unable to cope with increased productivity. Oh the irony.

And you're going to solve this by destroying a man's career over his SHIRT?!! And I'm the childish one?!!!

Nice strawman. You can read my views on the shirt. No offence but trying to argue like this makes you look like an imbecile.

Freedom of expression is objectively right

And yet you argue by pretending that one person's expression of their ideas does not exist and attempting impose something else so that you can attack it.

But the SJW mindset IS damaging. It IS destroying things. It's dangerous and it needs to be stopped.

This is just hyperbole. Grow up.

I guess these folks are the Russian version of FOX news?