That should really say, "There has to be some sort of way to compensate the labels and lawyers for the hours and the sweat and the blood and the tears and the extreme, extreme expense that goes into squeezing every last fucking nickel out of consumers", because its closer to the truth.

I specifically said unwilling, not unable. I have some compassion for folks who find themselves in a ditch, just not forever, like every welfare program is designed to do. But see, welfare = votes, so those "elected" create programs to keep the votes coming, and the easiest way to do that is offer free shit.

Gods no. I'll use my savings, and credit, and not feel one bit sorry for myself if I have to take a rotten job to support my family. There is almost zero chance I will be lose my job because I worked to put myself in this position.

Regardless of the $real_number, its not my job to support the $people unwilling to support themselves. If you want to pay for it, I'm sure you can find a way to do so without my assistance.

Speaking of "clearly flamebait"

In addition to the flamebait mod you already recieved; you're -1, Wrong as well.

My servers and desktops are Linux/Solaris -- x86, AMD, and SPARC due to job requirements. My Wife's laptop is Linux, and she interfaces with MS-Office users all day long without issue. My Kids PC is Linux, and that meets the requirements of webkinz.com + Freddy Fish, ABC-123, etc... Right there is 3 diverse demographic categories in which Linux has met and exceeded usability standards*.

[snark]* Added to above; without anti-virus, super-tuesday reboots, and not a single BSOD, not even a screen freeze, or large hardware reinvestment.[/snark]

Just because its there (by default), doesn't mean that ...

1. You have to use it
2. You have to install it, making ^^ moot

I make no claim to Windows server, having no need for them. Although the install CDs make great coasters, if only I'd get them in the mail ;).

No. Quite the opposite in my experience. The elite (for lack of a better word... lets say the Really Good Players) may run high resolution, but turn off shadows, foliage, weather, 3d effects. The goal is not the experience -- we did that in the walkthrough, or while we were learning -- its frags, and frags come from low ping/latency and high frames/sec (plus the inherent skill). That doesn't effect the wii much, but it sure can on a PC.

You may have meant "someone with a little too much stolen cash". This is too blunt for anyone with the resources to seriously mod the HW in a meaningful way for intelligence gathering or DoS. My gut reaction is the laptops have a trojan/worm on them, and were intended for the dumber staff to go "cool! free loot!" for the LULZ.

1. I fixed all kinds of stupid problems for her and her friends.
2. I stopped being quite so knowledgeable about her friends PC problems
3. I stopped fixing her friends PCs
4. I rebuilt "the kids PC" and much happiness, dancing, and many games of "duck duck goose" were had.
5. The kids and I played games whilst she googled for "registry cleaner", "anti-virus", and "WHYISMYDAMNPCSOFKNSLOW!!!!11111"
6. She asked for help. Nuh uh.
7. She begged for help. Nope.
8. She pleaded for help. Nyet. Nein. Non.
9. I gave her a Fedora disk and kept an eye on things, making sure she got headed in the right direction.
10. When all her stuff was working correctly, I copied MP3s to the USB.

I get the impression that you (and many others) believe that because itscommonsense to work this way, that it actually does work that way. The flaw is in the definition of "convince", whereby many assume its a difficult requirement.

I would much rather our Federal Government waste their time and my money investigating MLB, as opposed to to wasting their time and my money improving healthcare, out failed/failing companies, saving every single last banker, and figuring out new ways to let illegals vote for them.

I have my conservative HOPES, and they can keep the socialist CHANGE.

Exactly. And to that end, the entire database will be subpoena'd in the future, and not be restricted to a few specific sql queries. It'll be the same as searching a file cabinet for the results page, and finding 10 names on the page.

In the time it took you to read this post, it already did.