Simple, this lures them into a trap. And so you reveal that they would rather be slaveowners telling people what to do, than to exercise actual concern about the environment. Though this is puzzling why I don't hear a peep out of the eco-crowd about the volumes of junk mail we receive.

And compared to competitors, it doesn't.

Unix pretty much IS dead as an operating system, relegated to fanboiism and other irrelevance. People keep Unix because mission-critical code isn't easily swapped out, or because Linux is cheaper than Windows.

They'll change as soon as someone figures out how to change them. I'm not into graphics design but my pseudocode is complicated arrow diagrams on paper. Once tablet computing matures, the applications will adjust and everyone will wonder how they did without it, whether with a stylus or simple touch or both.

Tablet-like computing is the future, and although Microsoft's absolute fucking around stalled it for years and forfeited the market to Apple, the outcome is still inevitable. What I'm waiting for is a Tablet PC that finally eliminates the lag when you draw on the screen with a stylus. I want to get rid of the security, storage, and landfill problems inherent with drawing my designs in paper notebooks.

And Democrats have placed it beyond all doubt. The feds are great at one thing: destruction. Hence they're given the war power. And not a whole lot else.

Funny how Linux and MacOSX, even Firefox and Chrome, still seem to thrive in the presence of this scary Microsoft monopoly. And what happened to BeOS when it was purchased? It was given concrete shoes. lol

Nobody but the USPS is allowed to delivery First Class mail. That is a monopolistic federal law. Look it up.

Little to none of the stimulus has been provably spent on highway improvements that anyone actually needed, or that weren't handled from the gas tax fund. It was political slush money. And voters now know it.

"What the fuck does this even mean?" It means you don't know basic economic theory, and because you don't even understand free markets, you surely aren't qualified to speak against free markets. What people do with their money is none of your business. Your concern for other peoples' money reveals you to be the greedy one. But this is common among closet liberals and I am not surprised. What "got us into this mess" was government intervention, deciding that hobos had the right to new homes, and that reckless financial companies had the right to a second life, both on taxpayer dime. People like you deciding how other peoples' money should be redistributed.

For losing your cool, you've pretty much Godwin'd your arguments.

Governments that merely "fulfill the will of the people" eventually grow to the point where they deprive of the people of everything.

The USPS doesn't *have* to exist. FedEx, duh. UPS, duh. Internet, duh. Pony Express, duh. Handing out Christmas cards at church, duh.

Neither Microsoft nor Standard Oil were monopolies, and you didn't prove that they were. Even the Supreme Court will lie to a person's face.

The fallacy of Keynesianism is that, short of divine wisdom, government spending will never be done efficiently because it will neither reflect every single self-interest of thousands and millions that a free market is based off of, nor accurately sort wants and needs due to artificially inflated means. In layman's terms: the money will be wasted.

Guess who else will like the concept for control purposes.

Microsoft was not a monopoly. Its competitors were simply not putting their best foot forward as they are today. Same story with Standard Oil. You had a solution looking for a problem.

The only true monopolies that exist are the ones in bed with the government, either explicitly (USPS, Fed, etc) or implicitly via regulations that impair small companies. The market was set to punish the large financial companies for their stupidity and this would have been a shocking deterrent to future adventures...but what saved them? The market? No, the incompetent and meddling central government who deemed them "too big to fail". But in case you didn't notice, there are monthly reports of small banks being shut down without a whimper. Same thing with GM and Chrysler who were about to get mauled for getting in bed with the financially irresponsible unions. Who saved them? The market?

Governments exist to protect natural rights of defense and freedom and that is it. Anything beyond that is a degree of central planning.

You're giving the siren call of a communist and that brings a world full of hurt. You see, the central planners trying to think on everyone's behalf end up having the least knowledge of all and are the least competent to even attempt the task.

Do you remember when Muslim armies tried to invade Europe and conquer the hemisphere? That was before the Crusades even!

Hayek was hardly wrong, you're seeing his predictions on the verge of playing out as we speak: of higher central authority leading to ever-decreasing personal freedom.

Our economy was doing great till the Democrats took Congress, and then Obama started kissing the Muslims' asses while engineering a socialist hell for us. Now it's like, if that stupid dumbo fuck is going to sell us out, why even bother in the first place?

Muhammad wasn't a prophet, he was a death-obsessed pedophile who was jealous of all the attention that the rest of the world gave to the Jewish-born Jesus. Then to get the men into his army he gave them a fake religion that lied about endless sex in heaven and said God speaks Arabic not Hebrew and God's chief prophet was Arab not Jewish (he really wasn't fond of them Joooz). If I really believed that horseshit maybe I'd also be flying planes into buildings after sniffing lines and visiting strip clubs. Hypocrites, all of em.