Fucking Microsoft, not letting me install Android on my Zune and Xbox. It's obvious, they're trying to sell the Xbox by using the fact that it works better with Windows as a selling point.

Yeah, no. New platform, new rules. If you argue that the ARM platform and PC platform are the same, then Microsoft is not a monopoly, and the restrictions placed on them are void, including those on the x86 platform. If you don't combine them, then ARM Tablets are not related to the PC and MS is not a monopoly in ARM and is a monopoly in x86 and the restrictions placed on them apply only to x86.

So, which do you want? Let MS do what they want in the x86 market or let them compete with yet another walled garden tablet?

How much difference is there between a PPC Mac and a Dell Optiplex? They're almost identical hardware, except for the chip and both can run Firefox, so, same software, right?

In the PC market. Not in the ARM consumer tablet market.

That dominant market share of 1%?

That's nice. Pointless, but nice.

You made a specific claim:

Skipping a pedestrian red light when you're young will increase the likelihood you'll skip a red one as a motorist later on

I claim that's not true. Now, prove your fact.

I have never heard of a study done that links jaywalking to red light running. You obviously have or you would not have made that claim. So, where can I read this study?

Yeah, that's not true, go make something else up.

Not really, I'm taking the non stop surveillance society to it's logical conclusion.

Have we changed topics from automated surveillance to world politics? I must have missed the topic change, I'll go back and check.

No, I'm worried about some insane view of society where you seem to think that I need a parental figure or big brother watching my every move to make sure I don't litter. The road to hell is paved with good intentions and you're volunteering to run the steamroller.

One person's utopia is another's dystopia.

I see your vision as the path to a sterile world. An automated society where everything is monitored for someone's vision of what the world should be like. All mistakes are punished and eventually you're deciding that people don't seem to be exercising enough, so you fine them for that. You don't like what they are wearing, so you fine them for that. You don't like what they said, so you fine them for that. It doesn't end, an automated society where the people are just cogs in the machine, nothing but slaves to IT.

I strongly suggest you call your society "Camazotz". At least then people will know what they've signed up for.

10 F with a 35 mph wind at 2 am makes me want to rush a little.

Oh, and fuck you for essentially wanting to legislate patience.

Thursday, December 6th, 2:45 pm, suspect failed to come to a complete stop before turning right. $125 ticket issued.

Thursday, December 6th, 2:50 pm, same suspect walked into crosswalk before light changed to green, $75 ticket issued.

Thursday, December 6th, 2:52pm, same suspect placed what appears to be household trash in corner trash receptacle, $55 ticket issued.

Hey, these things eventually have to pay for themselves.

Design is for the average user. The average user doesn't have a Thermaltake Xaser case, they have a HP, Compaq or Dell. They don't use Intel's wireless display outside of work and honestly they don't care about the charm bar. They also no longer need to regularly shut down the PC, it will hibernate for them.

For you: Desktop, Alt-F4. Or create a freaking shortcut, you're a power user, act like one.

Most users don't really need to restart regularly anymore.

To shut down, there's a power button on every single computer.

I know, after years of telling people not to use the power button to shut off the computer, now you should use the power button to shut down the computer.

That's a lot coming from someone whose argument is:

WHiiinnneeee.....OMG! NO LINNNNUX 4 CHARITY!!!! THEY DID THE LINUX LAST TIMEEEEEE!!!!!

Seriously, no one wants to hear that, you're not 4.

When called out on it, it turns into some sarcastic rant "OMG!! YOU WONT LET ME TAAALLKKK"

No one really wants to hear that either. Your point of view comes across like a whining toddler that is upset because the candy she has isn't her favorite flavor.

So stop acting like Humble Bundle just started WW3 and pay attention. Humble was started as an experiment in software distribution and charity, not as some fucking Linux/Mac crossover gang bang that you people have turned it into.

Getting Windows only software with a charitable donation is apparently equivalent to burning the world for charity. Who knew?

Sorry, it's hard to figure out your argument with all the straw in it.

Why would I need to crack them?