The same logic by which the NSA all but shoving a microphone up your ass has prevented trillions of terrorist attacks!

Glad to be or service! ;)

That's old news!
Ever seen the default theme of Windows XP?

Well, maybe for the on-board computer of a clown car.

April 1?

Didn't you get the memo?
It's not their product. They only purchased a license to trow even more money in Apple's direction.

So, an attempt to interfere in the carrier's pricing is alright, because the manufacturer only has a twenty or so percent market share?

Meddling in the deals between the carriers and the customers has been a tradition of theirs since the first iPhone. So it couldn't have happened to a more deserving corporation.

Too bad the fine itself is so laughably low that it's probably less than their yearly budget for toilet paper in their locations around the world.

These things take their time.
ColdFusion is still around as well, even though Adobe is trying its hardest to kill it off for good.

Rackable? It's a workstation not a server.

There's actually a third-party rack in the works for these. Think of something like a wine rack, but designed to hold these instead.

Finally take care of the goddamn desktop market where the lion's share of commercial work is being done!!!

Well, she could be storing illegal nuclear weapons in her basement ...

That's an approach you'll see in many European countries.
Most university graduates will produce more than enough taxes through their higher income and the revenue generated through their work to make up for the absence of tuitions at government-financed universities.

IIRC the German government is planning to introduce one, roughly $11.65 at the current exchange rate.

It's already going on on a smaller scale.
After the US, Germany and a few other countries have adopted the concept of "Free Speech Zones" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone ) the Russians are now planning to do the same: http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-protest-zone-at-2014-sochi-olympics-20131210,0,7900728.story#axzz2n6VNDMNf