I'm kinda partial to their chocolate 'Yahoo' drink that comes in the glass bottle at the convenience store.

It's true.

The US Tax code is 4 million words long.

It is unpossible to know if it is legal or illegal.

And it could take a decade of arguing between the IRS and well-paid Apple super-tax-lawyers/accountants for a decision to be made, because the size and complexity of tax code means there are never any final answers and mountains of gray-area that can be argued over indefinitely.

That's hilarious. Then how do we have a $17 trillion debt in the USA?

What you are saying is absolutely untrue. And money is not a "fixed supply", George Washington's government didn't have $17 trillion dollars --- and they had coins like the "Half-Cent". There isn't even $17 trillion dollars in the entire world --- the circulated physical currency for the USA is about $900 billion, so the other $30 to $50 trillion or so lives inside computers and with some frequency the US government decides just to "make some up" and they use it buy debt.

All I am saying is that the number of contortions you are doing --- I do most of those btw --- are because the environment is very vulnerable. You are aware of the vulnerabilities. They can change tomorrow and likely you personally will know because you keep up on that. But that kind of overhead --- i.e. the "paying attention to all of that" is not something that most people are going to be doing. I have the theory the popularity of tablets is mostly because parents can give one to a child and not worry bout malware (iPad for sure, at least. Maybe the Kindle ones too.) It isn't that the parents are consciously aware of this either (maybe some are), but a laptop a kid will likely unknowingly install malware and odds run close to 100% for continuous use over the span of a few months -- at least a Windows laptop --- because Windows is a particularly vulnerable minefield.

What is the point of being rich if you can't blow money at will? That is the definition of being rich and the point of being rich.

Neat. So you've made a life-style and time consuming hobby out of running Windows without anti-virus. And it sounds like it is working for you. Today. Maybe your strategy works tomorrow too. Or maybe it doesn't because of something you didn't expect.

Let's say your method works 100%. How does this benefit grandma? Or a 9-old-year who likes to play Minecraft?

If your "lifestyle" or "hobby" can't be done by stupid people, you can't by defintiion be a "leader" because those people can't follow.

No I'm not defending anti-virus, I'm insulting Windows and how you are essentially making excuses for insecurities. They don't get solved by ignoring them, you know.

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Who are the group-think emos that modded this worthless and unsubstantiated rant up?

Challenge to one the diptards that modded this up: exactly how is that post insightful? Does it provide evidence, a link, cite information, provide something new no one has ever heard before? If not, what is your justification for rating a run-of-the-mill rant insightful?

And you expect a run-of-the-mill furniture supplier to be good at this for what reason?

Look, this has its place and maybe will dominate the future --- just lay off the Amish guy and quit giving him grief because your footstool doesn't have USB. Keep it reasonable, you want an iChair? Bother Apple or Google.

AT&T did a massive privacy violation and published a list of residential phone numbers complete with address.

Yahoo and Bing offer search results as impressive as Lycos, Hotbot and Altavista in the 1990s. In fact, as far as I can tell, Yahoo offers the same search results they did in the 1990s.

Bing could do a $100 million advertising campaign and it wouldn't help unless they take an interest in continually refining and improving their search results. No one "gave" the search engine market to Google, they slowly earned it.

Don't most of them fail to achieve their goal? Kickstarter also does another service ... someone with a crap idea who is overexcited finds himself shot down and brought back to reality with minimal pain and with a bit of efficiency. The "best" solution to whatever issues Kickstarter has would be a competitor.

Is that any different than the risk of "pre-orders" of games or products that don't exist yet? Or buying a product that doesn't achieve critical mass and dies (The Barnes & Noble Nook, a Zune, etc.) I agree with you, by the way --- but look at Craigslist. Caveat Emptor.

You miss the point of kickstarter.

Non-kickstarter: Bankers, corporate stiffs have 100% control of what can raise capital

kickstarter concept: A bit of democracy possibility to bypass that control.

I don't personally feel Kickstarter is about investment but taking control --- and near stranglehold --- away from the kind of corporate culture unwilling to roll dice or uninterested in small yield/high interest projects.

Note: I am not arguing "kickstarter" is perfect.

Human intelligence or even puppy-level intelligence is easy to underestimate.

Bumblebees are quite sophisticated in their behavior.

In the 1960's, they would have thought we would be living on Pluto by now and would have expected us to be on Mars by 1980.

We overestimate the "processing power" of the computers we have right now and we don't yet have the right "minds" to solve the inner subtleties of AI or learning.

And our programming languages are rather pathetic and unevolved. Watch an Apple Newton video from 1987 and benchmark against 2013 and see what you think.