Apple, on the otherhand...who knows what & why they're collecting data in a released OS...
Seriously? They are collecting the info for the Next fappening.
Yes that sounds snarky and evil but Hollywood is lazy. People want to see naked celebs especially those who are hypocrites (ie those who take private nudes but won't green light a movie where they are naked) Apparently, Apple is in on it. Why else do they need the info? Its good for spying, and marketing. If they say #2 they are lying or incompetent.
please do not feed the troll everyone
What troll? I see no troll other than you.
2015 will the the year of Desktop Linux!
Actually, No this isn't off-topic. Here is why: The fappening . The whole reason this happened is not just because celebrities were lazy to allow Icloud to upload their pics that wanted to take, its because apple feels this is the new normal. Linux (which is android is a flavor) is a valid optiion who doesn't immediately phone home to its maker. Mind you, Google can and will monitor android but this CAN be disabled with out harm, unlike apple.
too easy:
Fixed that for you. However, some do need bombing. Really.
...[I]t would have been faster, easier, less dangerous, and a hell of a lot more practical to just give him a ride in the fucking helicopter.
In before "Why didn't the eagles fly the One Ring to Mount Doom" and/or "Why didn't the eagles fly the company of Dwarves to the Lonely Mountain."
Because the eagles would have been corrupted (the one ring corrupted everything, thats why it was sought by Sauron. Its evil. As for the dwarves, because walking to Lonely mountain creates character and creates a second useless movie for Hollywood to shove at us.
Suspension of Disbelief: Spiderman exists and has super powers and is the only one capable of stopping The Lizard.
Terrible Writing: Some guy in New York totally knows all the crane operators in New York, knows the location of Spiderman as well as his destination, and at a moments notice is able get all his crane operator buddies to line up a dozen or more cranes on building tops along a single street and extend them so that Spiderman may web sling from them.
Hollywood: The cops hate Spiderman and want to capture him, but after seeing The Lizard they have a change of heart and love Spiderman. To show their newfound love for their new favorite superhero, a police helicopter hovering just above the roof Spiderman is on shines its spotlight onto the cranes that were lined up for him. Showing Spiderman the way to swing, swing, swing, swing, swing toward the Lizard Man is a nice gesture, but it would have been faster, easier, less dangerous, and a hell of a lot more practical to just give him a ride in the fucking helicopter.
Reality: Spiderman gets bit and dies a horrible death, The lizard is captured by several bullets to the chest and heat and is disected by some doc in washington and we never notice anything.
Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing.