Most of the Linux desktop environment are so similar that the learning curve barely exist. It vendors lock in that keep Microsoft on top. To break that will require massive marketing, lobbying for more government and education institution to go Linux and maybe a push for legislation to force Government contract bid to consider OSS solution on equal footing with Microsoft and Apple. Unless the OSS community stop squabbling over all sort of bullshit debates and find the money to do these things. Linux will remain the little secret of a few happy users.

And I believe the guy controlling that fat market is named Durden, Tyler Durden!

It a bit of a local joke that hide a more sinister purpose the "Maple Syrup Strategic Reserve" is just a scheme to keep price high. All the Quebec producers are selling mostly to one distributor and that right there is 80% of the world production of Maple Syrup. If they feel that demand slack they put more product out if demand is high they hoard a bit more reducing and maximise profit. Also like it was pointed out you only need one or two bad spring to screw up production and for supply to drop so the reserve is an edge against that also.

You're shit out of luck because before you could grab the halfling he likely put on his magic ring! Those damn halfling burglar can't be trusted you know!

Plus weed is so cheap stoners really don't need to steal to get some! lolll

Assuming I only witness an incident and have done nothing wrong in the sense of the law. And provided that I live in a country that still respect the rule of law, I know that excluding the US but am Canadian anyway. I would contact my lawyers and bring down the wrath of god on whatever agency feel they can investigate or harass me. My statement would likely be charge me with something or back the fuck away! In a more polite form but you get the gist. You have no idea how fast the threats of lawsuits get some peoples to leave you alone. After further consulting with my lawyers we will provide a carefully written statement on the incident to show that we are more than willing to offer any lawful cooperation but that any further communication would be through my lawyer. You do all that and they might hate your guts but they usually leave you alone. Off course expect your tax return to be audited for the next five years and don't ever drive even slightly above the speed limit.

Pretty much what happened with the Canadian dollar who was at around 60 cent US more than a decade ago but has been at parity or a bit higher for a while now. We had to make some bloody noise to get retailers to adjust their prices because the bastards were perfectly fine with ignoring reality and cashing in the difference!

For a criminal what the point of getting a disposable phone if you keep it long enough for the cops to learn your number? Seriously folks the rules of clandestine operation are simple incoming call goes to one phone outgoing from another! You switch them off when not in use and you discard them often! And pay phone are really useful to muddy the water even more. Also if you keep nothing in them you don't leave any data to be seized by anyone!

Yeah if IBM or Gates had any inkling of how big the PC market would become you bet your ass they would have done thing differently starting with a lock on the BIOS. Just look at all the effort made by the same actors later to push out BIOS in favours of other "solution". Not to mention all the new computer like device that now have a locked bootloader. (Smartphones, Tablets, Windows 8 ARM device...)

Not a bad analysis to prevent that we likely need something like the great convention. "You drop one nuke and everybody else in the world gang up on you!"

Wong he understood too well that sound like a Brits to me! Show him your paper mate!

Don't be ridiculous Arizona does not have tourist they scared them all away with all that bullshit a long time ago.

loll Damn peoples only remember the "Fear is the mind-killer." line from Dune!

The Walmart cashier won't give fuck who you are or what you use your Ipad for. By the way it just a fucking tablet Apple get over yourself nobody making Nuke out of an Ipad!

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind.