No, this is like saying Photoshop belongs to Adobe. Nintendo owns the rights to all the games that I've heard of them doing this to, therefore, Nintendo being controlling of its property is a fitting statement.

Based on the reasoning you proposed, yes, you're trying to put through a bad policy. Based upon your argument above, we should take away bicycles, skateboards, and any other form of transportation that will allow a child to meet up with an adult they met online (as Belial6 pointed out).

How about this, we allow parents to set rules for their children as well as punishments for breaking said rules? How's that sound?

Um, Chicago, San Fransisco, LA, Detroit (less so now), and, oh yeah, we've had the transcontinental railroad system in place longer than the bloody car as been around. I live in a city with public transit, I will never use it because, guess what, I want to be on time! They stop at appropriate intervals. They just do a piss poor job of getting people where they need to go. Americans, as a whole (ask anyone outside of a major metropolitan area, say in any suburban area or even smaller pockets like university settings, if they'd rather drive or ride a bus), will avoid public transit. The university I went to had a bus that ran every 15 minutes...supposedly. I took it 3 times because I needed to get to a bar on the other side of town and didn't want to drive back drunk. What happened? I was late to the event I was going to because the bus showed up nearly 30 minutes late. It was better than paying a cabbie, but it was still not really effective means of travel.

More or less because it was done in America where the government always goes with the lowest bidder, meaning corners get cut (the epoxy issue) and runs into the fact that, Americans as a whole (albeit less so in the huge metropolitan areas like NYC), actively avoid public transit.

Seriously, can we stop using false information and stop treating straight up lies as fact? Per the Bureau of Labor Statistics, unemployment is on the decline and the lowest it's been since the recession.

Michael Bay? What are you doing here!?

For someone like you and like me, where the salesperson has to do virtually nil, I agree whole heartedly. For someone like my mother who will walk in with a bit of an idea and not much more than that, paying closer to the sticker price is fine by me, so long as the salesperson wasn't trying to sleaze the whole time.

The dealership I bought my car from, I'm quite happy with how they handled it and they were very respectful and didn't beat around the bush with me as I knew exactly what I wanted. When my parents went in, they took 3 weeks of looking at various cars before they decided which one specifically, and their salesman was respectful and knowledgeable, still cut them a bit of a deal, and still made money for his time. Frankly, I don't see the problem with a salesperson who is knowledgeable, helpful, friendly, and not a sleaze making decent to good money.

So far there aren't many comments here, but all of them are sitting here flaming Tim Cook. No where in the articles linked did it say that shareholders (as a group) wanted this. In fact, if you RTA (the last linked one), you'll see that it received less than 3% of the vote. But people who are too afraid to post under a user name are also apparently all too happy to post that Cook is doing a disservice to his shareholders, even though the overwhelming majority of said shareholders agree with him.

So what should those that don't do? Buy something else. I don't get why people who are seemingly for the free market are up in arms about a company doing something their way and telling people that if they don't like it, they can go somewhere else. Just because the ROI in one company might not be as high as possible (according to a think tank, not a court of public opinion by any stretch, which is where Apple exceeds), doesn't mean that the company is doing a disservice to its shareholders, unless those shareholders are in it for the shortest term possible.

Helps when you put the D in there.

Depends on the vegan. My brother will consume honey, but he is still a vegan.

I don't know why, but I did not get redirected to Beta. Ever. The only reason I knew everyone hated it was the comments (and the fact that I saw it when it was initially created and left feedback that this sort of thing would happen). I have no idea as to why, but I'm not complaining.

Studio One is amazing and if I didn't have years of Pro Tools under my fingers, I'd be running Studio One. Elegant, relatively simple, and still powerful.

I have tried just about EVERY option I can find in FOSS and they do not quite hold up to the current commercial offerings. Frankly, both as an end user and as a pro audio salesperson, I've only ever had mediocre luck with Make Music/Finale. At the very least, with Avid's Sibelius, I've been able to get decent tech support. I haven't had as much luck with Ardour as I'd like, and Audacity doesn't cut it. Getting into a decent Sequencer without dropping a fortune, I'd get into Studio One personally.

If you want more details and/or want to know more about my opinions on the matter, please feel free to PM me.