All of your "potential" scenarios are so fucking crazy, either from a technical or business standpoint I gotta ask you for the number of your drug dealer. That's some good shit.

When Linux has a worthy Office competitor.

Libre Office not good enough for you?

That's some grade A word salad there.

Hey, Liberals are nazis now, so transparency being fascism is perfectly cromulent in this worldview.

Add that to the long list of other things you don't know.

LOL. Care to make it interesting? Unlike most assholes here, I don't just say shit to make myself feel good, I'll back it up with cash. Care to wager some money that the GOP will take the White House in 2 years?

In a normal world, your argument would be persuasive. But since the GOP has spent the last 30 years jumping every shark they can get, the problem isn't whether Dems can win 2016, it's the whether the GOP can untangle itself from the crazy long enough to not scare off most "independent" voters.

Get on the interstate while high? Spoken like someone who's never smoked. That's fucking crazy talk. Most pot smokers don't even want to drive while high, let alone get on a major highway.

Actually, the problem with Beck is twofold: One, his program is in the 9-12 slot for me, and I'm a late starter.

More importantly though, at some point after Fox kicked him to the curb he retooled his show into something more "Morning Zoo"-esque, and it's just not the same. Man's lost his park.

I listen to him every day. And Hannity. The sounds of their wailing are music to my ears.

Hapened about 50 years ago, do keep up old chap.

I'm saying the gun went off too late.

IT'S ABOUT ETHICS IN GAME JOURNALISM!

Or something like that. I'm sure somebody who takes vidya far too seriously can enlighten us downthread.

Cars just don't have the same totemistic mystique.

And much more complicated to operate.

we're talking about idiot parents here, and it's a blessing that the result wasn't more tragic

Actually, it's the worse possible outcome since those Darwin Award-worthy genes have been passed on already.

I know the article says that these companies can't afford to ignore china

Well, big companies, like MS, Apple, Oracle, etc.

When you run a small (or more local) business, one of the nice things is being able to avoid certain markets and customers. In fact, unless your future growth (and corresponding funding) aren't a lock, you have to avoid them because all they'll do is destroy your business.

So if the big boys have to jump through ridiculous hoops in order to keep those profit margins sky-high, fuck 'em. That's how the game works.