No, generally, this level of presumption about how I feel turns me off so much that I would rather oppose you across the board than support you in any way.

Keep your arrogance in check. You (and those who agree with you) aren't nearly as brilliant as you think you are, and you aren't helping yourself by only paying attention to feedback loops and dismissing any opinions that aren't your own.

Nerd speak decoded:

anything at all -> whine whine whine, bitch bitch bitch

The modern definition of "economy in the toilet" seems to be "they aren't handing out free BMWs even though I whined a lot."

For a bunch of whiners who want everything for free you people sure expect to be highly paid. Where does this money come from exactly, when you won't tolerate anything being sold? Maybe you expect the rich to donate to your life? (I know, there's no maybe about it. I've read your "manifestos.")

That's not really the case. The simple, distasteful truth is that most people are not capable of critical thinking on any level that is of use to society at large. Unfortunately our societal desires to be "progressive" by forcefully redistributing resources to prop these weaker people up are working at cross-purposes to any ability to actually progress.

This isn't proper populist thinking, so no one wants to hear it. Same lesson as the story mentioned in the article, really - the people are stupid and shouldn't be trusted.

What I hate are the console games ruined by trying to cater to PC nerds. Since you guys hate everything and pirate it all anyway I wish they'd just give up on you and concentrate on the grateful gamers.

When a European chastises an American for not taking into consideration "the rest of the world" what the European really means is "Northern Europe."

It's almost irony.

Yeah, and the only reason marijuana is illegal is because they can't figure out how to tax it...

Question - Does defending your glorious leader give you a hard-on?

When he took the initiative in explaining that his extreme energy usage was okay because he paid himself for carbon credits, was that as glorious?

No one failed to predict that there would be conflict in business. They instead instituted the court system to handle such issues. Which is what we see here.

I find it instructive that the "can't we all just get along" crowd doesn't understand how things work in the real world.

I guess if you give up before you begin, you deserve some sort of prize?

The simple reality is that "the corporations" are run and owned by people, who have just as much right as you to try to influence how things are run. They're just better at it than you are. That doesn't give you some special right to deny them what they want despite your "moral" objections.

Your way isn't objectively better, and you have no inherent right to impose it, no matter how correct you believe it to be.

You couldn't be more off base. Everyone secretly thinks just like I do, unless someone is paying them to think a different way.

Nintendo wasn't scared of the PSP, they were scared of Apple's amazingly successful iDevices.

Sony is about to taste third place in yet another market. Heaven help them if Microsoft ever figures out their mobile strategy.

Nothing but a law that people pay little attention to stops that from happening now, but it's hard work. People aren't big on hard work for little benefit. Which reiterates my second point.

I never understood what the end of copyright would bring as a benefit. It's not like people would be magically forced to release all source code. I guess software would be super cheap, but there would be fewer people working on it since there would be no money in it, so there would be less choice all around.

Seems like a terrible goal.