The transaction won't happen unless both parties benefit. It's not an either or proposition.

This model has the advantage that if you just use Word once in a while you can use it without paying the $$$ that you now have to do. Just need it to open that job application. That's just $1.15.

Supplies will benefit b/c more people will be able to afford their product and they'll sell more.

Personally, to me it is worth it to put up with the disaster known as Open Office just to avoid MS. However most people don't have that hangup and will love the new model.

the government owns everything.

Really we should expect to end up in full blown Communism when all is said and done.

Pretty sad ending for the greatest nation in history.

Yeah how could anyone forget their infamous surplus sale?

According to http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/sea_level_calc.html you're looking at like a 23 degree Celsius average temperature increase to raise sea level by 59cm. This is just an excuse to take more money from the people in the form of taxes.

Yes the spam harvesters helped kill Usenet, but the real death was from the spammers flooding your favorite groups with their completely off topic posts. When 90-99% of the posts in a programming group are for enhancing certain parts of your anatomy, what's the point of reading the group.

While it is "painfully obvious you're [the parent poster] a highschooler trying to get around some stupid proxy," I think they have a point.

After this censorship thing is implemented lets say you're in Australia just an average bloke (is that what they call a Joe there?). You can't look up proxy lists. Even if you did the proxies listed will probably be blocked by their updating stuff.

So being unable to look up one or use any that are advertised in any public way, you have to set one up. But how are you going to do that? You've got to get on a network outside of the censorship thing. That meas you've got to leave the country and set one up or at least make contact with a foreigner and make arrangements for this. Not only is this unlikely to happen, but it will probably get you on some terrorist watch list or worse.

So you can't get a foreign proxy set up. So now what do you do?

Eh you probably won't have time to even spend on your censored Internet since you'll be working all the time to pay your taxes for this stupid thing.