What moron goes to Facebook for news? For that matter why am I still on Slashdot for geek news? How long has it been since I read quality? Bye my friends. Good riddance to me.

5% of apple's sales is nothing to scoff at and hardly a flop.

Yeah...over 80. Does this mean I am AI?

Obviously they are partners, not competitors.

How is this marked as Troll -2? It is a fair assessment of the situation regardless of whether or not you agree with it.

Just a casual observation, maybe I'm wrong. The rise in big tech and their ability to collect information replaces and redirects all fallout from wikileaks and similar fiascoes. Big tech has investor approval and the government taking advantage via tax breaks and back patting has been obvious for several years. Was their ever any reason to not suspect this type of behavior was ensuing?

Not being aware of this is kind of like denying that Amazon was exhibiting monopolistic behavior when it sold books for less than half of what they cost at the bookstore with free shipping. Everyone happily said yes to free stuff, myself included, but we all knew what was happening...how's those Amazon prices looking now?

Not being sarcastic here...seriously and unfortunately, most of the deaths are by people with comorbidity issues and over 80. The reality is that they've already lived past the average lifespan to begin with. Do your own search on how long people live in a nursing home once admitted on average.

Life sucks sometimes and there's only one way out.

Listen, all things put aside about jobs and stuff.

We take biology, chemistry, etc. to understand the world around us. A little coding is no different. For example, a simple java system.out.println("Hello World!"); provides a basic understanding of how text might be sent to a screen. Sharing a c or c++ or python equivalent further elaborates. A little coding doesn't hurt and is no less of a waste of time than memorizing the periodic table.

Teaching scratch and lego crap is no more coding than mentos in a coke 2 liter is teaching chemistry...but maybe both a fun and serve a minor purpose.

That's fair but do you really watch that much tv? Not disagreeing l as it seems like a lot but then again, I don't watch so much tv. I only asked originally because I wanted to know.

That's what I'm thinking. But then again, I don't watch much TV and between a few downloads and Netflix I'm not even close. It just seems high to me that, as already stated, I seem to be a smaller player here =)

Gotcha. I suspected as much but simply not my kinda activity. I already have more movies and music than I can shake a stick at but do not fault others for having some fun =)

I will sail into the west now...got nothing on that =)

I didn't take any insults, I simply asked because I was interested in what people were up to in case there was a common pirating trend I was missing. I haven't used comcast since I dropped them 15 years ago because I didn't like their policies when running my home servers.

Don't get pissy my friend, we are all semi-reputable geeks here =)

Good point!

Actually not. Trends change and old geeks don't follow all of them. Another user pointed out his son redownload a game (100gb plus some) and I can relate to that. Streaming shows that I can pirate is on the flip side unrelatable.