In my experience, it's the most reliable way. The purpose of FUD is deception. Why would you trust people who engage in deception? This is why there are so many skeptics out there. It's not that they are unwilling to believe in science, it's that all the FUD has resulted in a boy-crying-wolf effect.

In my experience, they mostly vote against people.

So then, by that logic, does the US government have the right to tax anyone in the world would writes a webapp, even if they've never stepped foot in the US?

And if they drive users away in the process, how will that be fulfilling their fiduciary responsibility?

I finally got a Bluray player last November and although I have the money to easily afford any movie I want, and would prefer to have the highest bitrate, I gave up after several movies in a row took about 5-10 minutes to start up. I even had one rental that went on for over 20 minutes. Hell, the studio identifications alone take 5 minutes. I may be willing to give the studios my money, but I can't afford to give them my time. I will not pay $40 to be annoyed when I can have the annoyless versions for free.

This puts the final nail in the Bluray coffin for me. I was on the fence and now, I will simply never buy another. Congratulations movie studios! You really know how to sell a product there.

But no country stays trustworthy forever. There is no example of one that has.

I agree that Apple should be paying more, especially when they have more cash than they know what to do with. I was just saying that if you focus more of your buying in countries that don't have these sweatshop conditions, then there will be less work available in those sweatshop countries. Yes, it is crappy work, but when the choice is between food and starvation, then it's better than nothing.

If someone is desperate enough to take one of those crappy worker-unfriendly jobs, then doesn't it follow that they likely need it even more than one of the workers from a more worker-friendly company/nation? Are you helping them by encouraging the movement of jobs elsewhere, when even they agreed that the job was better than the alternative (ie. starvation)?

It's the first thing I do too. But there's something else going on that's pegging processes at 100%. Knotify4 seems to be a big part of it. But whenever I investigate each issue, it always seems to lead back to akonadi.

I don't want my window manager managing the sharing of data between applications (most of which aren't even KDE apps). I would just like them to release a window-manager only edition.

If KDE would just stick to managing Windows, I'd agree that it's the best. But after many years of use, I finally had to give up on it just recently. The whole semantic desktop/akonadi/nepomuk disaster had finally taken its toll on me. No matter how desperately I would try to turn it off, it would always find some way back on, pegging my i7 at 100% and thrashing my disks (leading to the need for a hard reset). Been dealing with this for years now on several systems.

People have been complaining about this crap for longer than they have had these dumb tablet UIs, but the KDE devs just won't give in and let us leave all of that out of the compile. It will never work and nobody asked for it, so please just let it go. I want my KDE window manager back.