Thank Jeebus we have those boiling oceans to make clouds then, or we'd never get any precipitation.

Clearly, YOU do not know how evaporation works.

Yeah, because the world has gone to hell in a hand cart from the spontaneous explosions of the wide availability of "bombs" like gasoline cans and propane tanks.

Well, they assemble them. They paid GlobalFoundries $1.5B to take away their chip division last year. The same chip division that advanced the state of the art in semiconductor design to help get the industry to where it is today.

Really though, what "business machines" does IBM make anymore? pSeries? zOS / System390? AS/400? What's the volume on those?

Nobody ever said Elon Musk was a Republican. But you sure knocked the hell out of that straw man.

Yeah, let's not forget the laugher that Obama sent in 2012, which the Democrat-controlled Senate rejected 99-0.

Yes, the GP may have been wrong about not actually submitting a budget in six years. In actuality, submitting budgets that can't even get a single vote from your own party is basically the same thing as not submitting one.

The extinguishing came at the hands of the iPad and Android tablets though. Microsoft didn't get any piece of that, and in fact lost ground.

I thought that was either Symantec or CA?

Parallels really kinda sucks. Of the three major hypervisors available for OS X, it's the worst of them and that's with VirtualBox being stagnant for a year+. No support for OVAs whatsoever. If you virtualize OS X, you can't use keyboard shortcuts without the hypervisor thinking that Cmd+Q was meant for it, rather than an app in the guest OS. And yes, it doesn't do very nice things with thermal management on your hardware.

VMware Fusion works pretty good, but costs $. VirtualBox, for a time, was actually better than VMware Fusion and free. The guys at VMware have fixed that though.

Except that stealing TVs is inherently illegal. If I moved to some fairy-land jurisdiction where stealing TVs was legal and someone stole my TV, then I can't really say that the person who stole my TV is breaking the law, because they aren't.

As I said before, you have a problem with the great State of Nevada; Apple is merely following the laws on the books.

This one has been around since 2000. 15 years, just getting around to auditing the main C library used by EVERYTHING now, I suppose...

It's a horseshit argument, and always has been. Just because someone CAN audit something, doesn't mean they DO. Or that they are competently doing it if they do.

Once the materials that Apple uses are out of the ground and turned into a product, the environmental damage stops except for the electricity required to use it, and it's eventual disposal.

With oil, every step of the process including use does very bad things for the environment.

You could, in theory, use a Mac forever with a solar panel without ever doing anything to the environment.

Okay. That sounds like you've got an issue with the State of Nevada then.

So you are claiming that it's unethical to only pay what is due each jurisdiction under the current laws of each jurisdiction in which they conduct business?

Do you take any deductions on your taxes? Do you itemize? If you do, you are equally unethical by your own measure.

When you do your taxes, do you just pay a flat percentage, or you do take deductions / itemize?

I guess you're acting like a bastard too. And a hypocrite.

Especially if you consider that when I pay 4-5x the amount of taxes that someone else does, the fire department doesn't arrive 4-5x faster, and the police aren't 4-5x better and solving who broke into my car.

And you know what? I'm still happy to pay the 4-5x more in taxes, because I've managed to work my way into a good place in society, and I like what my taxes buy: civilization.