You're clearly hysterical. Violence is always funny.

They don't "weigh" 900kg, they have 900kg of mass :P

Oh? What does something with 900kg of mass weigh in your neck of the woods?

In my country, where we use a sane unit of measure, it's about 2000 pounds.

Or, you could not be passive-aggressive and decline politely.

You'll catch autism if you try to do everything /. tells you to. If you want to buy games on Steam ("how much pressure before one relents"), go buy them. They're cheap and the DRM is unobtrusive.

If nothing else, they're doing the Lord's work by regularly kicking the other publishers in the sack.

I don't think this is for broadcasting to home users. This newfangled 802.1Qav protocol requires compatible hardware at every hop, and for the broadcaster to know the MAC addresses of the recipients ahead of time.

You don't know how 4chan works, do you? Try linking to the archive next time.

You realize /b/ is only one of the boards on 4chan, right?

There's a difference between your dinky corporate intranet and, say, Comcast buying out every competing ISP and getting Congress to make your wireless router illegal.

If you think that anything Ma Bell did was even remotely related to "edge security," I'm afraid you're the fool.

You're illiterate. Go read what you quoted again, especially the part about "ad and sales revenue" at the end.

You may find it as inconceivable as the horseless motorcarriage overtaking the buggy, or that dangerous electric lighting displacing the proven reliability of gas lamps, but I assure your most unimaginative Lordship that people start new businesses all the time. Yes, m'lord, even "capital intensive" businesses like airlines

It's harder, though, when your "society with rules" decides you should have to give the local monopoly $1 million to drive a taxi. Or when your "society with rules" made modems and answering machines illegal until 1968. Or when your "society with rules" decides that one must completely disassemble their automobile upon sight of a horse, out of deference to the local livery lobby.

This is where you tell me to go to Somalia if I want to live in some crazy, libertarian fantasy land where it's not a crime to drive someone to the airport.. Sad that "libertarians are dumbasses" is what passes for +5 Insightful around here.

You aren't one either, are you? Why on earth would you conclude that Kindles are a Giffen good?

The tablet market is very competitive, and Amazon prices their products aggressively--the $200 Fire had anywhere from $150-$201 worth of parts. Absent some extraordinary evidence to the contrary, it's quite reasonable to assume that the purchase price of a Kindle would trend towards its marginal cost, minus whatever per-device ad and sales revenue Amazon expects.

If by "these parts," you mean "reddit."

I stopped reading when you picked "Chrome" as an example of poorly-threaded software.

You don't like coffee or beer? Go fix that. Besides, coffee is usually cheaper.