Google Apps now has the same privacy policy as regular free Google services.

No, they receive the results of searches for users that have the Bing toolbar and the option to send your search queries and results to Microsoft turned on. Not at all the same thing.

And I'm preeeeetty sure that Google Toolbar does the same thing.

We have a 0% message loss rate with Exchange. What's your point? Email is also delivered virtually instantly, provided our internet connection doesn't fail.

Almost like the Exchange administrators wherever you worked were complete imbeciles or something.

Microsoft Tax? EAS is royalty-free, license fee-free and has a patent covenant-not-to-sue so long as it's implemented correctly. Continuing to support it would have cost Google nothing other than the man hours to keep it working. There was no "Microsoft Tax".

No, it means it's illegal for anyone to have nuclear powered ships or weapons in our waters. That's why we don't get invited to US Military parties.

Purchase of a FREE course - Coursera never charges for anything. I'm a little confused by your assertion.

Or you could just do that with the trial version. Why go to all the trouble of paying them for a month to do it? If you're gonna pirate it, just go it the whole way and get a torrent.

I'm confused by this.

How is it not OK to claim that every pirate is a lost sale (what the industry does), yet it's A-OK to claim that every pirate would not have bought it anyway (what the pirates do)?

You claim that "pirates themselves don't cost developers any money" but this statement is empirically false, because you have no evidence that every person who pirated the game would not have purchased it anyway. Making this claim makes you as bad as the RIAA/MPAA/BSA/ESA.

It's very confusing to be honest. A quick glance over the investment statement for the fund I'm in says that apparently it is taxed on the total value of the holdings under something called "Fair Dividend Rate" - where it's assumed that all foreign shares will return a 5% dividend annually (even if they don't) but I don't have to pay tax on capital gains from the fund liquidating any assets (or get any credits for the fund losing value in assets). Then again, we also don't have a Capital Gains Tax anyway.

Because he posts the same crap over and over again. It's like listening to Andrew Ryan in Bioshock, and look how Rapture turned out.

Really? I'm taxed monthly on the total value of my shareholdings (or rather, my share of my investment fund's shareholdings).

Bah. You haven't seen creepy until someone quotes something you said back at you 3 months later. On the internet.

And then follows up with your Name, Address, and Phone Number.

Just sayin'

Don't forget, and promptly didn't notify the bank that his card was stolen, since I've never heard of a bank that doesn't have a 24/7 line to report stolen cards.

It didn't? Man are we being ripped off with a 7000km return plane ticket costing $2500.

Which is highly irrelevant when talking about the actions of a state legislature.