Why should the incompetent devs make all the support money?

But you prove his point...

Which, given the current unpolished state of linux desktop apps, might just put the kids off computers altogether.

When you give somebody a broken, buggy mess after promising them the moon, they tend to get rude and ungrateful.

A textbook example of fanboid rage, of the passive aggressive variety.

As a developer, I can verify this. Some of them will send us phones, some won't. The cost of the phone isn't the big thing, the time involved in testing on each and every one is. Not to mention dealing with the enraged fanboids that raise hell about bugs in the app they pirated to begin with.

Android just isn't worth the effort. Your work is rewarded by getting ripped off and abused.

Wave a C note around and congressmen Bedfellow will gladly give you his password.

...meth is cheaper and easier to get than ever.

... since we are incapable of reducing CO2 production.

We're doubling the population every 40 years. If humans are causing global warming with CO2 production, it's just going to get worse, unless we get our breeding under control. That isn't going to happen, as will be proven by the replies to this. There will be variations on:

* The population is actually declining!
* Why do you hate babies?
* Malthus said we'd all be starving by now, but we're just fine, therefore we can make as many people as we want.
* Breeding is a human right! ... among other things.

Maybe we'll we can cut per capita C02 production, but the population growth will overrun it.

It' didn't go so well for me. I was 12, uncoordinated, and had never soldered before. I, my desk, and everything on it were covered in burns by the time I was done, and I never could get it to work. Had to send it in to have them fix it for me. It was a mess... I suspect they just yanked the z80 and threw the rest away.