It was abandoned because of decades of mismanagement. Having been born there 55 years ago, I'd be happy to support it again if it every showed signs of stability. People didn't leave because of not wanting to pay a "fair share". They left, in part (there are many reasons to leave...crime, lack of work, etc.) because of tax rates that were higher than any other major city in the country. You call it "fair share", I'll call it theft by government.

There's only one small company making TVs in the U.S.

I don't think you can point to Sweden as a success story. From what I've read, they've gone through a large amount of austerity cuts, and reductions to healthcare subsidies.

Anyone with common sense.

No, the peer review process is broken as several articles here have pointed out recently. Little actual review is accomplished as there's no money in the review, and you don't get any credit for doing so.

It lets you be a VPS provider, using nothing other than a copy of Chromium. No need for fancy processors and virtualizing instructions, no hypervisors, no containers, whatever.

Scales beautifully: Got a new customer? Just open another tab!

Voter participation is on an all time low

Ah, humans. We have the perfect strategy for getting what we want from democracy: "Don't like it? Stop voting!"

So, I think we're mostly in agreement, but the sticking point is that we're not all equal when it comes to tax breaks such as this. I don't blame MS for taking advantage of every legal break they can find. I just think it's unfair to the rest of us who can't participate in such fortune.

Wow, you made a load of wild assumptions, completely misinterpreted my statement, and then went way off topic.

I'm well aware that that's middle class, and have argued that point previously on ./ You made the claim that I quoted, and I simply dispute your claim that they're not going anywhere. I've had others here claim that making six digit incomes is wealthy, and it's clearly not...we agree. That's why I stated "maybe your definition...".

I think you're misunderstanding. The AC above (not me, as you implied) stated...
"MS will be able to claim tax benefits for the "donations" based on the retail price of the OS. In other words, they'll be making money from taxpayers themselves"

And, you clearly disagree. I read his statement as saying that if MS would have paid X dollars in taxes on their income, and now is paying Y, because they made a charitable donation, which really didn't cost them anything but the licensing, then they've successfully avoided taxes they would have normally paid, and in a rather sleazy (but legal) way. So, the difference between X & Y is lost to the government, and thus all of us, because it would have gone to services we all pay for, and now it just piles onto the national debt.

Now, you've brought another issue into the discussion, that you believe (as do I) that the government is already spending more than they should. I in no way disagree with you on that, but it is secondary to the points above.

Depends on the cost, and maybe your definition of "rich dudes". I know that around here (Fairfax County, VA), where the average daily roundtrip commute is over 2 hrs., plenty of folks would gladly let someone/thing else do the driving. But, the average family income was also $119k in 2011.

The problem isn't the website, the problem is the cluster fuck of a law they passed.

That's like saying you're unable to write a computer program that loses at Chess.

Not sure what you drive, but it would take over 25 years for my insurance cost to do that.

Let this be a lesson to everyone. If, like the UK government, you always use the same one every damn time, your bullshit gets so obvious that even the dumbest people will recognize it. Please. Pedophiles again?!

Heh, "financial server institutions." My fingers insist that root just always has to end in "-er."