....and also focused on the insult at the beginning. The claim from the EU is that Ireland illegally gave Apple a tax break, which itself does not absolve Apple. A better analogy to the U.S. would be like the state of Idaho trying to reduce your federal income tax rate to attract more businesses. They can't do that. And, a business that buys into that sales pitch is not absolved from paying the proper amount of federal income tax.

Hey, fuck you, I live in Florida! :-)

You don't have a sense of recognizing movie quotes.

I game, such as it is, on my iPad. I really only use my PC for Civilization V (waiting on VI) and some of the heavier image and video processing. But, yeah, I'm not so much into the FPS games anymore, though I used to be. I must be getting old. Somewhat in my defense, my 9yo son uses my PC a lot. I haven't bought him his own yet because honestly, it's working ok for us and don't need to spend the money on it.

Back off, man, I'm a scientist.

"My" main computer, not my work's main computer. At home, I use my iPad more than my desktop, which is running Windows 10.

Okay, I'm reading for the down-modding, but I use my iPad more than my desktop nowadays.

It was a correct copy/paste. That sentence is as-is in TFA. So, he didn't fuck it up, he just didn't fix the typo from TFA.

There are two distinct parts to this topic:

1. Is Facebook inappropriately censoring our videos?
2. Is Facebook simply trying to cover their ass for a lawsuit?

Note that FB has usage rights and they could censor stuff, and they do. They block terrorist propaganda, for example. The question here is should it be an all or nothing, or as-decided-by-FB? Regarding the lawsuits, note that in the U.S. there are number of protections on media reporting of minors (as an example). If FB allows such reporting unfiltered, can they be held accountable? I would hope not, but it depends on what the court would agree.

I can't find it either. I bet it's something else edited out.

You can take liberties, but it still has to pass the sniff test and yours doesn't. You can't NOT truncate in the actual computation if you're truncating in the display. That's false advertising.

You are simply being ignorant. You have no idea what you're talking about. You clearly haven't even looked at the popup in question nor do you understand what is happening. The upgrade was forcefully scheduled by Microsoft (this is the issue, in case you can't figure it out). You have to read the fine print in the center and click a link ("Click here") to go do a bunch of more work to cancel something I never fucking scheduled in the first place. By all means, start clicking all the "click here" messages you see. Keep defending this practice, you shill.

"Within the law" should include civil penalties and not just criminal. So, I dismiss your counter-strawman. :-) A well-written law is a red-herring. You may say that Libertarians are well-meaning and that they do not skirt laws or use them to their advantage, but that's not true. Nothing about being libertarian means that they're righteous. If they can screw others over within the law (criminal or civil), then they will because it's up to each individual to protect themselves and their families.

Bullshit. I wouldn't even have noticed it and don't give me more bullshit about being some sort of non-technical guy. That isn't the problem here. I wouldn't have read the fucking the popup and neither would you. You're full of shit if you say otherwise. A popup shows up, you hit X and you're fine. Except in this case where Microsoft fucks you over like malware. You don't need admin privileges or anything. He simply got on the computer after finishing his homework and eating his vegetables, hit the X, played Pirate 101, and then got off a half hour later. I never got on the computer and in the morning, boom.

Agreed. Fortunately, he doesn't get on the internet unsupervised. He was playing Pirate 101 or Autcraft. Both have been vetted. Is it possible he's surfing while I'm not there? Perhaps, but I check the browsers' histories regularly. He either doesn't browse the internet or he's good enough to clear the history or run in private mode, in which case he should not have fucking installed Windows 10 when I told him not to. Windows 10 is functional, and I don't plan to take the time to roll it back or risk that it will puck the remaining life of my already-old PC.