> Most desktop apps are still single threaded

Maybe tru, but I could easily be compiling, listening to music, recoding a video and browsing the web at the same time.

> 'I don't have time.'

Personally I think that is usually just an excuse, and it is more about motivation (as a test: ask someone who has 'no time' for exercise if they have time for 3x30 minutes great sex a week, and I bet a heck of a lot could 'find' the time for that !!).

>> Didn't work for me. My operating system came out as "unknown", despite being bog-standard Safari on a Mac running Snow Leopard.

> These guys are into Serious crime. They don't want to deal with small volume, unknown Operating Systems run by petty criminals.

But surely an Apple OS *is* a serious crime :-)

The "C" in ACTA is for "Counterfeiting". If new laws can help reduce the inflow of conterfeit, and often substandard, say car brake parts, or medicines, arriving in Europe then I am for it.
On the other hand if other, more contraversial, measures are piggybacked in on it then that is a different matter.

>> Or maybe they *do* want to pay the *artist*...
> Certainly that happens too,...
How can we do that ? (serious question)

> That's why we don't feel compelled to repay the artists behind the content.

Or maybe they *do* want to pay the *artist* but not the media machine, the lawyers, the middlemen etc.

You young folk: I raise you 10 years, with the 80's Home Taping Is Killing Music !

Being a "labour activist" he could consider another, often missing, option: buy a *used* phone. This would surely reduce his negative impact. Can he seriously not live without an iPhone ?
I think it is called "leading by example".
(Or maybe Apple just payed him to make the statement ?)

> and launch Bruce Willis to destroy the asteroid

Can we not launch him on a oneway trip anyway ? (just to be sure :-)

A ZX81 was my first computer: I wasted hours playing Monster Maze, typing in programs, saving them to cassette tape, and often loosing all my work when I jingled the 16k RAM pack by accident :-(