Are you mentally ill?

So your postulation is that a theory which explains an enormous number of observations must be wrong because one group of observations... er, wait, what the hell are you saying?

Oh just fuck off. Jesus people like you piss off; chronic naysayers with egos so fucking small they have to bemoan everything.

If life sucks so much for you mate, find the nearest fucking ten story building and jump off the top.

Cheap access to space is a pretty damned worthy goal, regardless of profit.

What I enjoy is having folders like Documents, Videos and Music, and being able to copy documents, videos and music into them, rather than having everything stored in app-centric folders which are hidden from me. What I like is not having to use a horror story like iTunes to copy video files, ePubs and music.

I bought a Nexus 5 and 7 last year, handed my iPhone to my daughter, and have never looked back. The Nexus 5, in particular, is just a little over half the price of a a comparable iPhone and is a helluva lot more usable. And if I really need something from the iTunes store, like the upcoming Pink Floyd record, I know I'll be able to play the music on my Android devices.

When I can plug in an iOS device into the USB port of computer and navigate its directory structure then I'll consider iOS as advanced as Android.

Wow, worst case of injustice EVER????

"In an accompanying article, Crawford makes a compelling case for FCC intervention."

That won't work unless it comes with a check with seven digits attached to it.

Congress will do precisely what it did for the music industry; stiffen laws and make competitors like Netflix and Amazon jump through increasingly small hoops while allowing the cable companies to extract ever more rent from both online services and customers.

Heh heh :)

Yes, but their "solution" seems to be lobby Congress to preserve their sixty year old business model, not actually innovate.

Gods save us from poorly-designed abstraction layers designed to do things "better".

"I know that you only meant to bring up a natural phenomena but bringing up the topic of natural seeps in a story about the Deepwater Horizon does make you look like a shill for BP."

Or a fucking moron.

They're assholes who are about to get completely fucked and lose whatever kind of war they think they can win against Google and Apple.

My chief problem is I'm hopelessly conflicted over which group of assholes I want to win and which group of assholes I want to lose.

Wait until the cops decide that "credit limit" equals "cash on hand".

"How much credit do you have on that there credit card, sir?"

"Um, $28,839.54"

"I have reasonable suspicion that you used your credit to purchase cocaine, online child pornography and uninspected beef steaks. Please hand it over."