I just don't engage with advertising, because I do feel I have better things to give my attention to. I run Ad Block, Ghostery on the web, I mute ads on live TV, I skip ads on recorded TV. If an ad is unavoidable (e.g. live radio stream), chances are good that it will trigger a channel change.

If I want some product, I'll research it myself. Advertising is very unpersuasive. In fact it's likely, in my case, to have the opposite effect, especially if it's unsubtle, repetitive and annoying.

I accept advertising exists as a way for content production to get paid for, but that really reflects the lack of imagination of the prevailing business models. We are in a transitional period - I beieve that in future there will be more subscription and pay-per-view based stuff and that will slowly edge out advertisment funded content. So make hay while sun shines advertisers, because people are turning away in droves.

Take. Some. Mild. Antipsychotics

That's what THEY want you to do. Medicate so that you can no longer sense what they're up to. Big Pharma is in on this as well.

(Yes of course I am kidding. Or am I?)

Or milking it to death. Or maybe both.

People really think like this? Really? I'm sorry for you. Somehow, you've been brought up to be a sociopathic moron.

Life is better when people cooperate and look out for each other. That's what has made the human race so successful as a species. If that's not your experience, again, I'm sorry for you. However, if you expect people to look out and care about you, then you have to look out and care for them, at least just a little. And in the modern world that means that you pay taxes.

You might feel that your taxes are not well spent, or that they only end up in the pockets of the corrupt, or the already well-off. That's obviously bad, but it's not the fault of taxes in themselves. Maybe you should stop voting for idiots and corrupt politicians, and do something to ensure that your taxes are used equitably.

But if you disagree with the whole premise, then that just means you're as greedy and selfish as they are.

Well, you could build an app with the same interface, features, etc. Sure it's more work, but that's where the money is. At some point presumably you have to put food on your table and a roof over your head, and ideology doesn't pay the bills. I don't like the idea of selling out any more than you probably do as a matter of principle, but my wife and kids need feeding and clothing.

Surely it wouldn't be beyond the collective wit of the internet to set up a parallel surveillance system targeting judges, politicians and others involved in dismantling these freedoms. After a couple of months of having their every private movement made public I suspect they'd change their outlook.

Only if you go along with the military dictatorship's renaming; most ethnic Burmans don't recognise that.

For all of the rest of the world (except Burma, which doesn't count), the car weighs 636kg, and does 0-100 km/hr in 2.2 sec.

Attack of the Mutant Camels FTW! That is all.

London's fantastic if you're rich, or at least well-off. If you're poor, or simply young, it's awful. Housing is totally unaffordable.

A Murdoch mouthpiece, trying to pull strings, push an agenda and suppress free speech? Who'd have thunk it?

Seriously, stop eating all the cake. (For various definitions of "cake" which basically all boil down to much the same stuff - starch+fat+sugar).

The reason is the brain's other great invention, the tokenisation of value, aka "money". That trumps everything when it comes down to it. That's why people always vote in tax-cutting moronic governments rather than one that acts for the greater good.

Jeez how to overcomplicate and overthink a simple thing. However they worded it, it's no way 2.4x faster than Yosemite - that's not possible on the same hardware. It's 40% faster than, or 1.4x faster.

And what exactly is faster? They don't say, but perhaps that's a mix of typical operations (launching, drawing speed, searching and sorting, etc), or perhaps they're just cherry picking a few routines that they've managed to optimise that are low level but will benefit most apps equally (but which won't translate into a 40% speed up to the user in most cases).

I'm with you brother! Man the barricades!

...just as soon as I've got paid this month so I can make my mortgage payment, queued up for the latest iShiny and watched the new series of XFactor.