The supply doesn't go down though, hence why when you download something its not stealing. You simply can not go and download a volume license. To me this is just a clear case of Occam's razor, that it is really just a price increase due to the British Pound.

Yea, but there's a reason for Ewok pelts being "out of the world" in pricing. Is simply Jawas have better pelts, and are quite easy to kill. Leaving a piece of a droid over a bear-trap. Presto unlimited Jawas!

I find it curious that U.K. Spikes Pirate Bay [slashdot.org], and Microsoft raises prices. Coincidence? I think not.

How is this +4 Interesting? They are raising the price on volume licensing. Can anyone show me on the TPB where I can download a volume license? Actually let me use that same idea. ...ladies and gentlemen of this Slashdot Site, I have one final thing I want you to consider, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense!

Why would a Wookiee, an 8-foot-tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of 2-foot-tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this post? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense! Look at me. I'm a poster at Slashdot defending Microsoft , and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you're in the story moderating' and conjugatin' the Emancipation Proclamation, does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed site moderators, it does not make sense! If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must mark my post interesting.

You are right: there are no essential features lacked by Open or Libre Office. By essential, I mean stuff needed to present information. Therefore, Government departments could easily mandate that only that feature set is used. But the Microsoft argument is that if "free" means it only does 99% of what expensive does, free is worthless (even if the 1% is unnecessary.)

You really think it is only 1%? If you were trying to sell that Google Docs compared to Microsoft 365 lacked 1%, I would of believed you. I have tried many times to use Open or Libre Office, they are terrible compared to Microsoft Office sadly. I really would like to use something else, but for spreadsheets nothing compares to Excel and Word. People always say well its only missing 10% of the features that mos people don't use anyway. That is exactly the problem, most people WILL use at-least one of those missing features in some application. This makes it a deal breaker for most people.

The other thing is the documentation is a train wreck, I remember looking up how I could have a spreadsheet link to another spreadsheet and auto-update every minute. Sadly even me specifically looking for a way to do it in Open Office only turned up how to do it in Microsoft Office. Looking at the forums for open office, many others have asked the same question not a single answer. If we went over to Microsoft's website there was a step by step guide on how to do exactly what I was trying. In the end it just wasn't worth it for me.

Well they still do get State Income Tax and Property Tax .

If you live in the US, you can be arrested and jailed for *years*, because a policeman says he thought he smelt cannabis smoke coming from your house.

Really? How, I am quite confused this could happen do you have any source at all for this? Or is this something that you are making up based purely on speculation?

I mean the bigger issue here, is that you are defending censorship by saying look at that other country is more evil then us then what we are doing! You need to remember that freedom of speech is a two way street. Once you start blocking things it becomes a very slippery slope.

"We must bring ourselves to realize that it is necessary to support free speech for the things we hate in order to ensure it for the things in which we believe with all our heart." -- Heywood Broun

Have any sources at all for that or are you just theory-crafting?

Whoops....competent not compliment. I am not competent in using spell check. =(

If MS actually stopped all unlicenced use of Windows then they'd soon be a minority OS, they rely on piracy to give them the bulk of the desktop market share. How many people do you know who've actually bought a copy of Windows? It's mostly OEM installations,

OEM installations are not pirated copies they are completely legal and have been paid for and officially bought. Not to mention how many companies are out there running Microsoft Windows in business with Site licenses.

It's mostly OEM installations, and when it stops working most people have it replaced by an unlicensed version by a "mate with a disc".

Secondly that statement doesn't make sense either. When the average user computer breaks down they really do 2 options.

1. Go to a computer repair shop.
2. Get an IT/Computer person to fix it.

If either one them are compliment, the fastest and easiest way is ook at the license sticker on the computer and install that version of Windows using that key. Which is completely legal, and not a pirated copy. So where most of the installations are pirated copies does not make sense at all.

New Hampshire also has some idiotic ways of getting revenue as well. The entire state liquor store, then there is also the recently introduced "Pleasing View" Tax. (Which is exactly what it sounds)

. You can't personally research everything.

I agree with you. Except when you are going to get asked that question 5000+ times in a political campaign, maybe its time you did it. Then again this may be just my personality on how I value education and knowledge, but I read all types of information on any subject. As an example I read all about transatlantic cables not to long ago. The quest for just finding on how why and how something is should be a goal for everyone especially for someone who is going to be a leader of people.

But what difference does it make if he believes in evolution?

Everything! It shows that he is not willing to stop and research something and use valid logic to come up with an appropriate conclusion. Instead he's believing something dogmatic because he deep down knows that his is right and is unwilling to change. Someone who tosses logic aside and stick's his fingers in his ear and continues ahead is not something I want in a politician.

Verizon probably has the best coverage for you... the down side is they are CDMA and not GSM so you will not be able to use sim cards. This really leaves only AT&T or T-Mobile for sim cards either one's coverage I usually find limited to Verzion's coverage sadly.

No, they're using iPads with bluetooth keyboards.

No, they are not. Do the people who post this actually believe this stuff?

I knew someone at work who had the grand idea to go spouting about how the iPad was revolutionize how he worked. He bought the Bluetooth keyboard got a nice case and a screen and a docking station. In 3 weeks he was back to using a laptop with Windows 7 with Office.