No, Apple is very definitely evil.

I am not part of the 'green movement'. I merely respect science and scientific consensus, which clearly, you do not.

There's little point arguing a topic with someone who's tribal identity relies on shared ignorance of that topic.

Religion and climate change denial are identical in this regard.

And yet despite that, Bayesian networks do a remarkable job of predicting the future on the basis of statistical observation of the past.

It may not be logically valid but it still has predictive power.

Your counter-argument lacks any argument.

Wow. 99% of climate scientists are going to be so burned when they realise that you smacked them down.

Compare the number of Palestinian deaths at the hands of Israel versus the opposite. If the human cost of various regimes is your concern, then that logic would see Israel ejected from the UN before Palestine is refused admission.

The biggest thing that strikes me about this whole situation is that everyone is angry but they're the only ones actually doing something about it. Seeing also-angry bystanders criticise the protesters because they're (a) hairy (b) drum-playing (c) other ad-hominem issue is sad, pathetic and unfortunately not at all unusual.

Yes, their aims are many, but the issues are many and one doesn't have to have a pithy easily-digested campaign slogan to express dissatisfaction with the status quo.

So many people on /. bitch and moan about the government and corruption but most of you wouldn't get off your ass for a second to stand up for your beliefs. I sure as hell have a lot more respect for those people being actually counted on Wall St (and the satellite protests) than I do for those on /. who throw virtual stones from the cover of Internet anonymity.

Bullshit. My company are producing new products in Java precisely because it is such an open ecosystem.

Nice. Yeah, you get right to the point. Being cool seems to be more important than Getting Shit Done for a large number of giggling morons. Hacker News seems to be full of them,

"Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less."

That is stupid beyond belief

What a pathetic fanboi. You're barely worth ridiculing.

What makes you think anyone else in /. needs some fucking newb telling them what they can fucking buy? I bought a PS3 and I like it. I also think Sony are a pack of douches, but so are Apple, Microsoft, Oracle et al. Not everyone has joined your pathetic purile crusade.

What's more, a fair licencing deal would have kept Sun going which would have been easier for Google to deal with going forward than Oracle, and not have allowed Java to get into Oracle's hands, which a large number of developers would have preferred.

I generally like Google, but they really did shaft Sun.

Nice rant, but finding apple 'enthusiasts' a little tiring does not automatically make one a linux apologist.