It's not your lawn, Paul. We don't have to get off of it.

Doesn't even sound broken to me. Sounds reasonable - Apple invests time, money, and talent into creating something, and other companies can make money from that so long as they compensate Apple.

I don't get why that is "evil."

You could of course not upgrade to Lion. I know you deserve to have everything just as you want it, but it's hard to convince the rest of the world to line up to supply you :/

I can understand, from the outside looking in, hating the patent wars. I can even sort of understand preferring that people don't like Apple, although it requires an emotional commitment I can't summon in myself. What I don't get is the attitude that Apple is somehow "fucked" or "out of ideas" when it's pretty obvious they're doing just fine.

If you seriously hold that belief, you're allowing irrationality to prevent you from clearly understanding reality, and in the end, you only hurt yourself. If you just proclaim that belief as some sort of religious mantra... I don't know what to say. That's weird.

I'm pretty sure that "clever" slogans brought about by a minority opposition to a system only masquerade as wisdom...

There can be no certainty in the law by its nature, since the entire system is arbitrarily constructed by capricious individuals. Legislators are just barely held to the Constitution, never mind logic.

Lawyers and lawmakers are a sort of engineer, excepting that the natural physical universe does not constrain them to reality, so they can get as crazy-stupid as they like with it. I'd say they're celebrating that fact.

On the east coast we get away with saying things like "take 66 to 495" without confusing people.

Yeah, everything would be great if people weren't people, but they are, so it's important to learn to work with it.

That's a fairly interesting conclusion to draw. I guess when all you have is an axe, everything looks like a grindstone.

Plus people have cancer, so no one has the right to complain about anything.

There's this thing called "the Internet" that you might have heard of...

Oh we all get the point - we just don't all agree.

Contrary to the "angry nerd" ethos, your opinions are not universal, and those who do not share them are not "stupid" for not sharing them. That's the real point you don't seem to get.

I absolutely in no uncertain terms refuse to see the connection between the Apple App Store existing and people being murdered.

A summary of the article (and 90% of Slashdot) for non nerds:

"I know better than you, so you should only choose the things I approve. For freedom."

It's about as reasonable as the idea that the power-based corruption in government can be solved by giving the government more power.