The way you pose your question is sounds like "Why does software developers like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg get to make billions of dollars and be set for life? It's unfair, I as a plumber can't do that so it's only fair that I pirate everything I come across, particularly everything that says Microsoft on it." Star actors hit the lottery jackpot, that's why. Even in big Hollywood productions most the people are not getting paid millions. For example the LotR production employed 2400 people, of course two of them was Elijah Wood and Peter Jackson but most of them wasn't even on camera and most of the rest nameless extras on completely ordinary salaries, just like there's thousands of Microsoft developers working for ordinary pay. Pretending all actors are as rich as Elijah Wood is as stupid as pretending all software developers are as rich as Zuckerberg.

Amen. Actually, I consider lamps in general to be like buggy whips -- no house built after Rural Electrification (say, 1939ish) should ever require a lamp. Building a house that needs lamps to light it makes about as much sense as building a house with no plumbing, because buckets work just as well.

A bunch of the machines I use are really virtual machines on top of VMware ESXi (though some are on VMware Workstation on Win7 or Linux.) But I do actually interact with the VMware, not just the guest OSs.

Android is fairly Linuxy inside, but the Linux bits are all well hidden, so I'm really dealing with Android and HTC. Does it count?

And I do mean IOS, not iOS. I think all the CatOS is gone.

Sourcefire IDS has a Linux base that their apps run on top of, but unfortunately it's not running either Debian or Redhat flavors, so I can't easily install extra tools. However, when it's having trouble connecting to things, it's still convenient to run a shell (over ssh or serial console) and check ifconfig.

And then there's a lot of Ubuntu, some Red Hat, Win7, WinXP, probably some Win2008.

You do realize most of us would still have the PC for gaming and surfing and coding and whatever else we do right? So the only extra cost I had was the HDMI cable. It's one device less so less cable clutter, it's less shelf waste - I have a collection of discs and they're all collcting dust. And I can put it on my laptop or iphone or ipad, I can easily have a backup, browsing a folder is easier than searching through discs. I'm not going to make a mountain out of a mole hill but in an ideal world I'd still pick having my movie collection on a PC.

Really?

What would constitute really gross as compared to mostly gross or just plain "damn, doesn't that hurt?"

It wasn't exactly atheist movements being persecuted, various minority/fringe religious groups were persecuted and fled to a country where they could make their own little wacky religious community. They weren't trying to get away from religion, just the dominant one in the country they left. Not sure why you'd think otherwise, the Bible Belt is far more religious than any area I know of in Europe. Oh maybe not in the Christianity statistics, but in the number of people that truly are deeply religious. Here in Norway almost 80% are technically in the state church and get counted as Christian, but only about 2% visit church weekly and 12% for Christmas. To most people church is a place for ceremonies like baptism, confirmation, marriage, funeral and the occasional memorial service with a dash of religion.

True, but those systematic flaws to would be there every year. So unless there's some reason to believe people would lie more today than they did before then that the poll hasn't changed since 1982 probably means people's real opinions haven't changed either. That is to say, 30 years of science and evidence detailing the evolutionary process means absolutely nothing to them. Extrapolation is of course always dubious but I suspect that holds true both forwards and backwards in time, that is nothing we've done have changed their minds and nothing will.