Its far easier to criticize when those "frequent releases" also include a price increase every go around, along with the need to buy new equipment just to support it, changes in functionality nobody asked for, and restrictions that border on invasion of privacy.

Many Linux distros run on just about any hardware you can load it on. Can the same be said about the last 2 versions of Windows?

Why are people so anti-socialism? What's wrong with a system that attempts to equalize the state of the people?

Not joking, I'm actually very curious to find out the reasons.

True. But I do hold the credit companies and almost every business partially responsible. They introduce several incentives to use your credit cards, almost punishing you for using cash.

One year I worked at Universal Studios. If you bought a ticket with cash, you just got that one ticket for a day. But if you paid with a Mastercard, for the same price you got a yearly pass with no blackout dates and a free poster. Visa customers sometimes got discounts for paying with a Visa card. The current marketplace and the businesses that manipulate it must bear some of the responsibility.

Its easy to say people dig their own hole. But isn't the person who gave you the shovel and showed you where to dig at least a little obligated to help pull you back out?

Some would argue that "profit" is a wholly human, intellectual creation and a perversion of our survival instinct. Most creatures of this world only do what is necessary to survive. Even those with and ordered society among themselves don't seek to purposely destroy for destruction's sake. Humans are the only ones who do that, who kill outside of the needs of survival.

"Humans make their living FROM the environment, not FOR it."

How about making our living WITH it?

Central Air Conditioning. You just defeated your own argument with that one line. "Nature" is NOT a centralized, autonomous entity. There is no "master control" maintaining the balance on this planet. Everything on this planet exist through a self-correcting balance of competition and cooperation. Its brutal, but not merciless. Anything that steps too out of line is put down by resistance from all other participants within its environment. Or, it wipes out everything around it, and starves to death because it has removed the infrastructure that created the ideal conditions in the first place. Guess which side of that coin humans are leaning towards?

Maybe that's the problem. Governments and terrorist are effective because of one thing: fear. Fear keeps (most) people from breaking the law and fear keeps the same people from standing up to those who disregard it. So fear of harming someone else or of being harmed hands too much power over to these bastards. Maybe if people were less afraid, more outraged, and more willing to make personal sacrifices for the greater good, we wouldn't have to worry about this in the first place.

What about the possibility he may have been found before now if the news had reported it and Wikipedia hadn't "edited" the ordeal from his profile?