There's absolutely no evidence (or reason to at all) to believe the rhetoric that Apple has always valiantly been interested in making better products whereas Samsung is some sort of degenerate company both incapable and unwilling to produce a better product that customers might want to buy.

This statement can only be believed if you already have these prejudices. Why wouldn't Samsung want to produce a better product to capture market share in a rapidly growing market segment? On top of that there is plenty of evidence that Samsung is producing phones and tablets that have received extremely favourable reception, in some cases being touted as being better than the equivalent Apple product.

... Dynamite

Comments like this make me wish mods could go higher than 5. Bravo sir.

The problem with your scenario is in step 6.

If they lack concrete evidence then there is no reason for them to take steps against him since he is still innocent.

As far as I'm aware, even in the UK people are not supposed to be summarily punished until proven guilty.

Unfortunately, as much as we might not like it, they're right.

Personally I believe it's this that really tends to piss most people off as deep down they know it's true.

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Yay!!! The destruction of a whole culture might manage to alleviate some air pollution in California, good for them! Besides, it might be true that they had the power to impose their will on the Tibetans but I hope you're not asking us to applaud them for exercising it against a peaceful nation.

You have no idea how right you are. I'm a Kiwi living in Brasil and working for IBM. I've just been told, literally an hour ago that my position will most likely be offshored to the Philippines. Apparently they're expecting labour rates in Brasil to go up. It really is a pity how capital knows no borders but people unfortunately do. Of course I have absolutely no sympathy for the Brazilian government since they haven't managed to approve my permanent visa after 18 months of processing.

In the end I'm going to vote with my feet. Bad luck for Brasil.

Mate, try Orcon. They're a little more expensive but the connection is rock solid, you do actually get the speed you pay for and they actually have technically competent support staff.

What I don't get is what the counterinsurgency campaign can offer ordinary civilians in Afghanistan. Why would they be suddenly welcomed with open arms. I would guess at best they would receive a sullen hostility. After all foreigners have been bombing the crap out of them for decades. Why would they give a crap what flag the current lot are under or what they're trying to do.

From an average Afghan's perspective, they have very little to gain from continuing this war or supporting the US. Certainly I don't think it would be obvious to them that they would be able to have a country run according to their wishes, assuming it would even be possible to gain any sort of consensus. In the end I think it's pretty obvious that the US is seen as being just as self serving and indifferent to the well being of Afghani civilians as Al-Quaeda or the Taliban. Each has their own sick agenda and the unfortunate civilians will continue to pay for the foreseeable future.

When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.

I think it offends those who try to portray themselves as even minded when they've already judged them as guilty. After all, remorse can sometimes be a factor at sentencing.

I suppose this is time for the inevitable copyright infringement != theft post. *sigh*

Ignoring the supposed conspiracy to take over the world by shadowy international organisations, why does it make more sense to continue doing something that you believe may have a negative effect?

I'm pretty sure that nobody would argue that MMCC is likely to have a positive effect on the environment. Given that, we're looking a scenario where either nothing we're doing has a significant effect or has a negative effect. In light of that it seems prudent to at least question whether what we're doing is a good idea.

It appears that those who are most against the idea of MMCC are afraid that the good times may finally be at an end and that we may have to actually take some responsibility for the manner in which we're behaving.

So presumably you don't have any issue with Iran supplying material support to Hamas? After all, what Hamas does with the money and weapons than Iran has supplied it has nothing to do with Hamas. Makes absolutely no sense why the US would choose to apply sanctions to Iran now does it?

I suspect you'll find that MS has been found to do exactly that. They've historically put pressure on OEMs by threatening to give them worse licensing deals than their competitors unless they complied with MS's wishes.