It should read:
"Not Just Apple and Microsoft, but nearly every mega-corporation, and how they Sidestepped Billions In State Taxes"

This is clearly nothing more than people trying to downplay Apple and their glorious, late Mr. Jobs and how a cheap, penny-punching asshole couldn't do any wrong. Just the same as Microsoft fanbois will do the same for their favorite company. In reality, this is a huge problem with a lot of big companies such as those and it won't stop until either the loopholes are closed, or governments stop taxing the hell out of success.

Not quite sure I ever stated that you said "always" or "more often..." anywhere. I was agreeing with him in that it's not something people say a lot. Not sure how you took it so wrong, but cheers!

I've heard that plenty of times from friends and family. But you are correct, it's not something ALWAYS stated.

I love you pretentious fuckwads who moderate comments because you have no life, no sense of humor, no anything outside of the scant traces of light that manage to seep through your parent's basement window.

Modded troll?
Modded flamebait?
Modded off-topic?

Get bent, dipshits. None of those even fits with what I typed out. It isn't trolling, it isn't flamebait and it sure isn't off-topic, since it talks about balloons AND google earth, both of which are in the article summary as well as the article.

So, yeah, go fuck yourselves... at least that will distract you long enough to stop ruining slashdot.

Nah, I managed to marry your mom. Now why aren't you in school, son?

Sorry, but if I want to look at balloons I will either stare at the wife's chest for awhile, or I will go out and buy some balloons. I don't need no stinkin' "Google Earth" for that.

Probably not, and I did not read all comments to see, but man... I need to get my eyes checked.

What a fun thought!

Also, I am no longer posting as an anonymous coward. I have no problem telling you like it is.

You ramble on and on with your inane and worthless counter arguments. Trolls have had the same definition online for AGES now, and you've gone out and created your own definition of what a troll is for the context of this story and discussion. If you do not understand those basic things then, by all means, shut up as I have previously requested of you

You also didn't merely "seem" serious. You obviously WERE serious. So trying to lie your way out of your stupidity is just making you look worse. Also, you DID disagree with him. You disagreed with his basis for his joke about Chrome. You got all huffy and puffy and started to blow things down, but you sadly can only blow certain things down well. His joke not being such a thing.

Grow a damned sense of humor and stop labeling everything as troll. Learn what trolls do, how they operate and WHY they operate. If levity is something you can't handle, then just fucking move on and keep your trap shut.

I love your style. Fight slashvertisement with slashvertisement.

You can basically euthanize them for free. Send them to Mars and when they are half way there, turn off all life support systems. Then turn the craft around, rename it to make it seem as though it's another vehicle being sent to rendezvous with the previous one, rinse and repeat.

This may or may not work. But worth a try, right?

It would have been MUCH cooler had they counted Gentoo Penguins from space.

...but I play one on the intertubes.

I am really shocked that this is something someone cared enough to write about. I know plenty of female coders (vagrammers?) and a lot of them far surpass the younger male programmers. Sometimes, while observing them in their natural habitat, I've even seen mate with one another. Night vision has done wonders for observing the local wildlife in it's most comfortable setting.

I can already HEAR my wallet being drained!