You seem to have missed this part: "This isn’t the venerated internship of the privileged college student, building valuable work and life skills with school credit and on-the-job training in place of pay – if such an internship even still exists. Historically, Foxconn’s low-wage internships involve essential factory labor by poor students, some of whose areas of study have nothing to do with electronics, and turn the “school credit” idea on its head. According to SACOM, vocational students, including those studying journalism, tourism and languages, have had practically no choice but to participate in such internships if they want to graduate from their schools. As temporary workers, they have little legal protection or recourse in the event of injury, over-work, or underpayment. And if they complain, they could jeopardize their diplomas."

You've obviously never been out to sea.

And of course, the political definitions of right and left have pretty different meanings in Europe and the US, so comparisons are really useful.

A EULA, like any other contract, is only enforceable if it's provisions don't break the law. A company can put whatever they want into them, but that doesn't mean it has legal standing. Companies don't get to arbitrarily make laws. They could add a provision that you'll give them your first born son, but I'm pretty sure that wouldn't stand if challenged in court.

Well, Niven never did go into detail how the State came into existence.

Actually, I've been seeing Apple as the new MS. That is, blatantly using their big bucks and near monopolistic positioning to crush competition and force major players in various industries to do things their way at the expense of the consumer (eg, the whole e-books thing). I can't even look at the old 1984 commercial without thinking that Apple has become what they despised back then.

Well, how to you feel about a religion/philosophy that does none of that, but whose adherents just tend to act like assholes all the time?

Option C: Light a fire under the California attorney general and drag their lying asses into court for monopolistic abuses. As it was, not only did the bastards get off scot-free, they made an outrageous profit.

You forgot to mention Grey Davis and his fucked up deal with the energy providers to pay above market prices after they screwed us on those artificial shortages they created. Yeah, Wilson laid the groundwork, but it took a complete moppet like Davis to really fuck it up.

It's called a career in advertising, and I understand it can pay pretty well.