The only innovation is the taking money from "training partners" for so profoundly changing everything Micro$oft every few years that every office worker in the world, who uses M$ products, has to go in for training every few years. The training places were going down the tubes because everyone learned windows and office and stuff, and nobody needed training anymore. Anything you didn't use very often you could just Google. (since M$ help is useless)
Now that they've changed everything (twice? three times?) not only can you not jump from one version to another without grinding the mental gears but you can't even get an easy answer with a search engine, since there are twelve different ways of doing things and only one works in your situation.
I don't KNOW that they are taking money to deliberately change everything, but it sure makes sense.
If they aren't they need to fire they guy who came up with the idea of changing everything so radically so often... out of a cannon. :)

If you send up enough of them, that's exactly what they will have done.

The other part missing is the when online merchant DOESN'T charge $10, they charge $7. So the M&P store is really whining that they can't make $8 of profit on a $10 sale, they don't want to drop their prices to match (as a rule) AND have to pay sales tax.
Then the $3 shipping looks really good, even better when free shipping comes in... (i.e. they buy more to hit the free shipping cut)

And there is the REAL reason sales tax doesn't get collected, the sales tax rules are so complex that the B&M are barely able to keep the rules for their one physical location straight, much less the rest of the country/world.

Is amazon (US) supposed to charge VAT on orders by residents of EU member countries?
I know that amazon.uk is smart enough NOT to charge me VAT when I order from them. (I am in US)

Actually the reason I buy stuff online has nothing to do with sales tax, it has to do with availability and price. Many of the things I want to buy are not available locally, and everything that is available locally is far more expensive BEFORE sales tax is added in, and harder to find.

They don't WANT to understand, that's too hard, they want to dictate. They still don't grasp that they will get busted every time they go down monopoly way.

I think it's more the apps. The different app vendors were stumbling over themselves to make their apps as similar to their DOS versions so that when their customers went to windows they didn't have to relearn the apps. So the move forward was more about making everyone comfortable with the part that mattered, the apps, and the OS was just window dressing (so to speak).
Now, I have to think M$ is in bed with training outfits, as they seem to go out of their way to force you the go to school to figure out how to use their apps ever release.
Couple that with all the seemingly malicious changes to simple OS stuff to make it harder to find, I think they have drifted away completely from the whole reason this all came off the ground in the first place. Users not being forced away from their comfort zone.

Yeah, I only watched in 3D one/first time.

Yeah, everywhere I looked, when I bought last year) there either wasn't a non-3D choice for bluray player or TV, or the 3D version was enough less expensive (with the same feature set otherwise) that going non-3D didn't make any sense. The only reason II used the 3D at all was because the TV came with a 3D movie. It was a horrible experience. But it seems they are desperately trying to get people to have all the tech in their homes, so they can push the stupid 3D discs... I pass.

I think you hit it with focus part. I always thought the reason I liked the 3D in Avatar was that it was environmental, it wasn't the focus of your attention as much as just there. They might have better luck with it if they kept the 3D to the edges instead of trying to jump your primary focus out of the screen, or at least reduce my headaches. I know I am altering the literal sense of the word focus from your intent, but I still think it applies.

I'm sure people would be tripping over themselves to examine an alternate theory, I have yet to hear of one.
If they want to be treated as science, then they have to do the work, no magic sky fairies or other untestable rubbish.

That's just so completely wrong, plenty of stuff in the ToE is falsifiable; most of the deniers just whine that "none of those thing happen" and think the theory is at fault for being consistent with reality.

Stats can be used to assist in analyzing data, but they are just a tool, they are not the science.

You forgot the veracity vector.
It is possible for someone to CLAIM they deny evolution and are not stupid, ignorant, or insane. (unless you put pathological liar in with insane)

I made the mistake, not only of buy Civ V, but playing it again recently.
I had to get out my GoG version of CTP2 to get the bad taste out of my mind.
I haven't played Settlers since it was by BlueByte

So I sacrificed a little precision for brevity...

Barring chronic conditions, it is clearly true. (a patient who takes a drug every day know they need it)
Yes, if I have a cold I need decongestant, as long as there are no other issues to complicate the matter.
Yes, it's a blanket statement, that is true in almost all non-trivial cases.
Else being a doctor would require considerably less schooling.

"Want" has nothing to do with medical treatment.
A doctor can frequently determine what you need.
Unless you are a doctor you are unlikely to know what you need.
Want is a word that gets used when people listen to advertisers.
One of the many reasons I think ads for prescription meds don't belong anyplace except medical professional publications.