Go ahead and tell me it's not China's fault for producing substandard products and that I, as an America, am profiting in some way from it.

Quality toaster ovens are available for you to buy (manufactured all over the world).

Yet you choose to buy the cheaper, inferior products.

I keep telling people that these "American Companies" aren't American at all. Fewer and fewer of their worker's are American, their ideals are not American and their tax revenue isn't reported in America.

I think that you'll find that a large chunk of the profits go to Americans.

A contractor on the other hand is paid for work when called in but not for being on call.

A contractor can negotiate a contract asking for on call pay if they like.

HTF is that phishing? Wikipedia sez:

phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity

And no analogy in your comment. Perhaps consider renaming yourself to inane first post guy?

Yes because Australians are paying other countries for their tax-funded inventions right?

Yes, they are.

Government-owned implies tax-funded, which means that the costs have already been shifted to the general public. How is it legitimate to force people to pay for research and then deny them access to the results?

You missed a few pertinent words in your question Let me add them for you - they make the answer obvious.

How is it legitimate to force Australian people to pay for research and then deny American & European Corporations access to the results?

If they are vegetarians, why do they make webs?

For protection.

Basically, Apple demands something better than Adobe is willing to develop.

Do you have a non-speculative source for this?

You are implying that darwin is just a kernel,

No. I'm not. Darwin is not OS X.

All I am doing is backing up the OP's assertion that Apple forbid installation of OS X on non-Apple hardware.

Whenever I want. Apple's window manager now, that they're pretty sensitive about.

An operating system is more than then kernel - and Quartz is a helluva lot more than a window manager.

Apple bars you from installing their operating system on non-apple devices. End of story.

buy a car *snip* and keeps that car for 20+ years.

According to greencars

Automobiles affect the environment in many ways. Impacts begin when a vehicle is manufactured (including the production of all the parts and materials that go into the car) and end with its scrappage in a junkyard (which can recycle many parts but also involves the disposal of many wastes). Over the life of an average motor vehicle, however, much of the environmental damage occurs during driving and is greatly associated with fuel consumption. Over the dozen or so years of a vehicle's life, nearly 90 percent of lifecycle ("cradle to grave") greenhouse gas production for a typical automobile is due to fuel consumption.

[emph mine]

There is a case to be made that replacing a car with a more fuel efficient one is a green move. I am quite sure replacing many cars younger than 20 years with a newer, more efficient model would pay for itself carbon-emissions wise after a few years. I'm not quite sure where that cut off point would be however. Perhaps someone a little more knowledgeable would care to comment?

Currently there is no such thing as UAV's for civilian purposes.

incorrect.

No, I'm just enough of a realist to know that war comes with human misery and that the alternative of continuing to live under Saddam would have been worse for the 2/3'rds of the country that wasn't Sunni.

Do you really believe that life is better for iraqis now than it was under Saddam?

It's funny how your quoted death toll keeps rising the longer we talk. Originally it was 100k. Now it's "hundreds of thousands". I suspect that if we continue this conversation long enough the entire population of Iraq will have died and it will all be George W. Bush's fault.

The documented death toll is approximately 100k - the actual death toll is likely much higher.

In fact, tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians were already dying

Yes - and I assign responsibility for those tens of thousands of deaths to Saddam & the rest of the ba'ath elite.

However, that does not mitigate responsibility for the hundreds of thousands who died following the invasion.

You appear to believe that two wrongs make a right.

It's cute that you say we "caused" the deaths of 100k

*shrug*. Leading to? Indirectly caused by? Semantics.

No matter what word games you play, there is an enormous number of civilians who would be alive if were not for the invasion Iraq.