Yeah right, 99% of the complaints go straight to the round file. In the grownup world, things don't go like it says in your little schoolbook there. In the grownup world, you need fat cat connections to make things work at all. So please, save it. Better yet, you know where to put your patronizing bullshit.

Ad blockers are for free loadin' commie welfare queens out there drivin' down Bourbon Street in their pink Cadillacs and talkin' on their Obamaphones

And that's already deemed illegal so you can rest easy now.

:-) Yeah, Pull the other one...

Welcome the NEW! 27 inch iPhone!

Hey, They are the ones pissing and moaning about how little they make. They all look pretty plump to me. We have to get some real competition into the system, and prices will come down tout de suite.

It's bogus. This is the new railroad, blocking the rights of way for anybody else. It's too heavily monopolized with bullshit patents and copyrights.

Figure out the human effort involved and work on that. "What the market will bear" means "How much can I rip a guy off without going to jail". If the margins are so low, why are the owners so rich? Consumers have to stand up and demand better accounting and pricing. Unfortunately they make up such a tiny part of the economy, there's no clout to be had. "Consumers" that make a difference are just other companies, and the massive amount of trade amongst them (in the same fashion car dealers swap inventory to make it look like a sale) is what sets the price we pay. Gotta find a way to scare them straight.

The things are almost completely machine made. They should be damn near free. What a bunch of thieves...

Without the ability to verify anything, all trust is destroyed.. Only the mystics will prevail

Any particular direction?

I have never blamed the 'leader' for the behavior of his followers. Not even the little general himself. Animal instinct is always much more powerful in the group, where the individual loses his mind, and effective leaders know how to direct those instincts. It's still not the leader's fault. He is merely exploiting a vulnerability. They prove that psychology is a science and show its biological, instinctive roots, some of the time, inadvertently, because some of them don't understand the mechanics either. They just know which buttons to push.

Alinsky, getting back to him, is running a business. Free market, remember? In the grand scheme, beware of the buyers... always. Idealism, it doesn't matter whose, may be good for business, but it really isn't good for the psyche. It inevitably ends in madness. To me it is self evident.

...it's 27 seconds from 'off' to KDE login screen..

Yeah, I kinda remember it taking that long for the old Zenith TV to fire up. You know, we went to transistors so we could have instant on. What's up with that? Hell, now we got light bulbs that have to warm up. Well, at least these new cars start up in the wintertime. Don't have to spray the ether into the carb anymore.

Nothing is faster than a RAM drive.

Except L1 cache. I want 512GB of that!

Opportunities and incentives are inconceivably enormous. A whole new type of smuggler will arise. It's great. Bring it on!

And then please tell me what you all would expect her to say... Please! Knock me over with a feather!

dumbass bimbo? I think you'd better read her bio before repeating that. If you think she doesn't understand what's she is saying or doing, then the dumbass is a little closer than it appears.