The shareholders hired Elop. The shareholders kept Elop on. It will be the shareholders who approve the buyout. And it will be the shareholders who vote to reward Elop.

So yes the sharehodlers are getting the shaft, but they're asking for it. I don't understand the motivation behind bondage and dominance, but who am I to judge the shareholders' sexual proclivities?

At 29 you've barely learned how to shave.

Precisely! The price if a good is whatever the seller and buyer can agree on. The labour theory of value is wrong. The cost theory of value is wrong. Things are only worth what we think they are worth. There's stuff like marginal utility, supply and demand curves, etc., but they are just fancy ways of saying that something is only worth what someone will pay for it. Even that $200 textbook, if we didn't value the textbook more than $200 we wouldn't buy it, and would resort to alternatives instead.

p.s. Actually we're not paying high prices for textbooks, we're paying high prices for college courses to which textbooks are attached.

It's not about missing the point, it's about the how email actually works. It's not that this method doesn't work, it's that it's a complete and total non sequitur. It's like trying to hide your income from the IRS by endorsing all your paychecks in disappearing ink.

Too complicated. Just use a white font, they'll NEVER be able to read it!

As trivially as ROT13? Hah! Doesn't even need to be subverted at all! There is no encryption here, no cipher, not even obfuscation. This idea is so mindboggling stupid that I can't help but suspect the work of a Grandmaster Troll.

Then there's the part in the book where the architect blows the building up because they didn't follow his plans exactly. Apparently to Ayn Rand artistic sensibilities trumped property rights.

How is he denying freedom of speech to anyone? There's an entire internet to go post their garbage to.

Government is a special case because government gets to use violence against you. KDE can't prevent your from posting on any non-KDE blog, they can't arrest you, they can't throw you in jail, then can't shoot you if you resist, they can't torture you, etc. But government can. Even those warm fuzzy governments that wring their hands and feel your pain.

It's not censorship if KDE doesn't provide you with a microphone. Sheesh. Enough with the whiny gimme attitude.

Freedom of speech does not mean I must provide you with a microphone. Moderating forums and mailing lists is not censorship.

Wouldn't it be great if this kind of effort was applied to the desktop?

On the other hand Darwin certified and blessed as a bona fide official UNIX. And Darwrin is derived from BSD.

Genetically, the various BSDs are direct descendents of UNIX. The ancestral tree might not be all that clean, but no one outside of a mythical Ozzie and Harriet world can claim the same about their family either. Legally I can't call NetBSD a UNIX, but that doesn't mean it isn't.

I don't mind paying to play a game, but I do mind paying to get rid of a grind deliberately introduced to make people pay. That's just rude. It's would be like if restaurants offered you free2eat meals, but you had to pay to get rid of the hostile and abusive waiter.

I'm as confused as you are why everyone is jumping on board the Javascript bandwagon. And not just on the desktop where there's the extra horsepower to run it, but also on very resource limited platforms such as phones. Why not Python? Isn't it easy to learn? Isn't it stable and robust? I'm coming from the Qt world, and Nokia's decision (which Digia is now forced to live with) to make QML/Javascript a requirement for QtQuick was mindbogglingly stupid. I have nothing against QML per se, but the arguments as to why C++ can't be used instead are downright silly.

But I know the reason why everyone is pushing Javascript: Because it's a web language. Look at the apps you can get for your Droid, the vast majority are little more than hastily ported web pages. Web developers are cheap, C++ developers are expensive. With HTML/QML/Whatever all you need to do to write an app is drag-n-drop some stuff around in an IDE and tie them together with some Javascript snippets. It's Visual Basic all over again!

If they don't want their privacy violated they shouldn't be telling the whole world what they're doing on a minute by minute basis.