Whenever someone says "defend our proprietary IP" I expect them to be malicious liars...or worse. This isn't always true, but it's true in such a large perponderance of the cases that it's a reasonable default assumption.

The hardware may be pirate hardware. But it was probably bought by people in good faith, and doing malicious damage to them is not justified by the fact that it was (unknown to the buyer) pirate hardware. Also there is the possibility that they have made a mistake. This is not a small chance, and if they do this frequently it can be expected to happen. There are lots of models of things out their, and it's just *so* easy to forget to include one of your older models.

Is that the same? From the summary I got the impression that they overwrote firmware on the device. This would mean that the old drivers wouldn't work either.

So take this chance to educate yourself.

Actually, this is a good chance for you to educate yourself. I'd recommend "Understanding Comics", by Scott McCloud.

Due to the format of comics (generally 30 pages, once a month, emphasis on illustration over dialog), there are certain characteristics specific to that genre.

So you think comics have to be small periodicals to be comics? You believe that Will Eisner's Contract With God is not a comic? You believe that Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis is not a comic? You believe that Raymond Brigg's When The Wind Blows is not a comic? You are letting how comics are usually publish blind you to the fact that that is not how they have to be published. And it still wouldn't make comics a genre. Yes, there are certain characteristics to publishing installments periodically, that constrain comics as a medium. All mediums have such constraints--they are better at some things, worse at others. Everything in that medium will have things in common. That doesn't make them genres. They are still mediums.

There has been what- 8 people associated with abprtion clinics who have been killed for that asdociation? I have found no indication that any church or church leadership was behind it or endorsed it or encouraged it either.

The Klan never was a church either. Of course christians made up the KKK and they attempted to use the bible yo justify their hatred but i do not exactly think it is the same.

Westboro is interesting though. As vile and insane as they were, they never advocated violence.

I think you missed an operative statement the parent made. "And try to kill in the name of". While the KKK might fit in there, or maybe at one time they would have, its only the idiots who try to kill in the name of that could be comparable.

So this excludes westboro. Would include a number of but not all klansmen, and about five anti abortionist in the US. I think you missed the limiter he put there "kill in the name off".

Simplicity can be beauty when you haven't gone too far in simplifying the object of considertaion, removing so much that essential information is lost. That is what you did. You obscured the actual problem rather than clarifying it.

That's the service they pay for, not having to "learn computers". IT is the data janitors. Most actual janitors don't despise the people they clean for, you know (of course, most actual janitors don't get hassled constantly either).

It's more like "is there anything else we can try to save Detroit from the evil non-Detroit manufacturers". Sadly, there's no saving Detroit.

"Classified" is a vague term, but computers holding "confidential" materials were affected (secret and above is a whole different world of computing). The machines were rootkitted by a foreign-owned company, and that rootkit phoned home. The DoJ was not amused.

Queue up the "Somalia" thread here ...

Direct sales, when no franchise has been offered, is no business of the state to regulate. Great Job everyone on voting for idiots who like to control everything.

Vote Libertarian in two weeks.

So, you're okay with ID theft then as well. After all, opening up credit in your name didn't spend any of your money.

If you buy a Frod, thinking it is a Ford, you do. That is what happened here. Renault isn't counterfeiting Ford Cars or trucks.

Car analogy: If you bought a Frod, and took it to Ford Dealer and they put in a Motorcraft Oil Filer that damages your FROD because it isn't a Ford, is Ford Responsible because all you cared about was the Frod Car was cheaper on eBay?

I'm going to bet that even some of the most jihad-obsessed radicals, fresh from what passes for school Taliban-land, are better at math than you are.

If there are 6 billion Muslims, and they make up 23% of the world population, that means the world as a population of over 26 billion people.

Do you know some secret place on the planet where we're hiding almost 20 billion extra, previously unknown people?

It really doesn't matter. People lie.

Any sufficient level of incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.