At some point, you have to start trusting people/organizations/companies.

What you're really saying is, "You don't have a choice, so just suck it up, princess. Privacy is so 20th century."

No, you don't have to trust people/organizations/companies who have not earned your trust. You are the one paying. Use the power you have as a consumer. Weaponize your purchasing power.

And always, always reserve the right to just say "Nope, I don't need it, I don't want it, and I'll find another way."

On a per-seat mile basis, yes the A380 is cheaper than any 747, there wouldn't really have been any purpose the A380 if this weren't the case. But Air Force One only has a single seat that matters in determining where it goes, a 747 with a lower total per-hour operating cost would be the cheaper option. And the American made option. And much more importantly, even the slightly bloated 747-8 can operate out of airports that an A380 simply cannot.

Ironically, those apps (Firefox and Chrome) do a relatively good job of appearing native on both Windows and Mac OSX.

I think this is right. They're making more investments in getting their apps on iOS and Android. I think this investment is an indication that they're interested in having their own Android distribution (or one that they can at least partner with) which will allow them control while maintaining application compatibility.

And if so, I'd say that's a smart move. It's probably not a full plan yet, but more of a hedge while they try to push mobile application development by decreasing the barriers between development for Windows desktop, Windows Tablet, and Windows Phone. One way or another, they need a mobile platform with apps.

I think the idea is that Google, Samsung, Motorola, and HTC have all made themselves into a sort of cartel that don't allow the "open source project" to actually be a source of freedom for consumers. Cyanogen is "rogue" because it bucks that system and restores freedom to the project.

Basically, the US used socialist policy to create a single-provider system in each region, effectively destroying the free market.

So much fail in one sentence.

One of my problems with LibreOffice (and OpenOffice, and some other FOSS apps) is that it doesn't fit with native UI conventions. It doesn't look like a native application, it doesn't feel like a native application, and it doesn't behave like a native application. Although it may seem like a very superficial thing, it makes it much harder to sell in a business setting. First, because a lot of business users (including "decision makers") are pretty superficial, and using a non-native UI makes it look cheap and unfinished. Second, because if it doesn't feel or behave like the applications that users are familiar with, then it's going to be jarring and confusing, requiring more training and resulting in more help desk trouble calls.

So when I read that LibreOffice "has got a lot of UX and design love", I was hoping that some of the incongruences were fixed. Looking at the OSX version, it seems that it's gotten worse. It looks distinctly like an application written for Linux that was hastily ported to OSX.

Why would you want to adopt a rifle that was in many ways already outdated when it was adopted into service, and is so outdated by now that even Russians themselves seek to replace it?

And what allies use AK 74?

Well, the US has 2 things that none of the above countries from Sweden to Portugal have

Yes, the U.S. has more densely populated cities than Sweden or Portugal (San Francisco and Manhattan), and 1/3 more population density than Sweden. So....what's the excuse again?

Tenther cultist crap. As if states could have built an interstate highway system or the Internet, or FEMA, or put men on the moon, or ever even think about maybe building high-speed rail...

Simply put, Europeans won't stand for all the crap that happens over here.

Spain, Ireland, and Greece have been taking it far harder, longer, and with less lube than the American citizen. Yeah, great, Greece just voted in a leftier government that has promised to renegotiate the predatory loans forced on them by German banks....but the new government is committed to staying on the Euro, making any real recovery impossible.

South Korea has one of the most corrupt politics

And it's a molehill next to the American mountain.

It's because we are fucking impatient.

If impatience was the driving factor, we'd have the best internet access in the industrialized world, as opposed to some of the worst. Didn't fucking think that excuse through, did you?

Municipality owned infrastructure would be nice but sounds too socialist / Marxist / atheist / Communist / etc. for some people. There are 19 states where it has been outlawed, since "the internet should not operate at the speed of government" or something.

Do we really have to wait that long?