What is astonishing is that we were lucky enough to detect the first gamma ray busts...what are the odds of that?

In soviet rus... Personally, I thought the reasoning behind the opinion was fairly obvious. Our entire economy is based on it. You create something, it's yours. You own it.

I felt this way until a year or so ago when i switched to Ubuntu and started using linux full-time. Turns out I've been able to find an app for almost everything I do, in the standard repositories, no less. The sole application I use that doesn't run on linux runs just fine under Wine. In my experience, Linux is there.

troll

Your foresight is truly astounding.

Gah, are we gonna do this again?

Telcos and free market?

Port this analogy over to automobiles, rather than planes(a bit more appropriate, since you actually operate an automobile/PC, unlike a plane) and it actually supports the parent's statement. Unless it's something that I understand and can fix(out of gas, flat tire..etc), when my car doesn't work I take it to the shop.

What moral lessons are there to be learned? Don't hire hackers?

Surely I can't be the only one immensely impressed by the use of a hair-band nightclub show reference to support economic analysis? Good stuff.