You've fallen for a line of nonsense.

Third rate propaganda repeated by a fifth rate sophist. Deporting Assange to the U.S. is not a method of punishment open to Sweden's courts, when he's accused of rape in Sweden.

I have no doubt that you can't figure out the difference between trying to find a citation that something is true, versus trying to find a citation that proves a negative.

No one is going to know what is true until it is proven, fuckwit. And it is your job, as the person making the assertion, to back it up. Skepticism isn't lazy, expecting other people to prove your points for you, is.

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And in 1967, bigots were saying that anti miscegenation laws weren't discriminatory, because white men were prevented from marrying black women just as much as black men were prevented from marrying white women.

They were full of shit, too.

If you want to make false comparisons to a non-skilled, non-professional job, sure. Or did you think the burger flipper at McDonalds was carrying a million dollars worth in insurance in the event of an accident?

less remembered is the $150 million lifeline Microsoft (MSFT) threw Apple (AAPL) in August 1997, when Apple was within weeks of bankruptcy

Repeating an urban legend doesn't make it true. Apple had billions in liquid assets at the time, and even if their fortunes hadn't turned around, they could have sold real estate or lived off of patents. That $150 million was to settle a lawsuit over Microsoft stealing code from Quicktime - nothing more, nothing less.

How exactly did Jobs win the business game? By the time Jobs finally made something of Apple Gates had been retired for 10 years.

The iPhone was released a year before Gates handed the CEO position over to Ballmer in 2008 - but Gates was still chairman of Microsoft last year.

You were saying?

Jobs was a MARKETING genius.

Did Jobs place mines around Madison Avenue and snipers on roof tops to keep everyone else out? Apple is coming up on 40, but no other technology company has been able to craft an ad campaign in all that time?

Hatebois gonna hate.

Those people must just be holding it wrong...

As opposed to all those other cell phone companies? Enjoying your Galaxy 6 with the screen that breaks (as opposed to only bending)?

You mean when the company they work for pays off the loan. Did you remember to pay back your employer for his cost of doing business (out of your pocket) while also remembering to demand all the benefits of membership from your local Chamber of Commerce without paying any dues?

Wouldn't that require jettisoning the willful Randian ignorance of market consolidation, monopolies, and the 19th Century in general?

If you're a complete moron with zero sense of proportionality, I suppose you could see it that way.

union executives

And just how long have you opposed both democracy and shareholder voting? Since the right to vote and the right to control the pooling of your capital (labor, when it comes to workers) is anathema to a bootlicking corporatist such as yourself. Unless you're speaking of the .01%, in which case your "principles" do an about-face.

Workers are just as greedy as executives.

And Stephen Hawking may have as much desire to engage in barfights as a 6'4", 350 MMA fighter who's been undefeated for a decade. Even buying in your BS storyline - most workers just want a decent home and decent standard of living for their families - capability and proportionality matter, fuckwit.

Any more fascist groveling & bootlicking for a club you'll never be in?

But what I'm getting at is when the government pays employees way above the per capita income of taxpayers. It's like elevating these scientists above and beyond us "common folk".

So, you're a petty individual suffering from crab mentality. Good thing not all people think the way you do, or we would have never gotten the right to vote, have weekends, or overtime.