It's not as much hate as disdain. And of course they don't want people to write native iPhone apps in Flash - because it still lacks most functions of the existing iPhone OS, let alone any of the new ones announced for 4.0. If you want to lock yourself into a development environment for a multi-touch device that doesn't even have that can't even handle gestures yet, and that doesn't support most of the features of your OS, you can write your Android apps with Flash - I heard that a year after it was first announced, it should be here real soon now.

It's quite entertaining that you want to sell me the lowest common denominator across many devices as the best tool for a specific one.

Well, not really. Apple's legal team made sure they were the 'only innovator' in the early GUI days, but that was it for that period. They capitalized on the music biz with their MP3 player at the right time and in a slick way.

But they abandoned the PDA right when it was becoming a big market, and it remained a rather rich market for a decade without them.

Their cellphone just doesn't matter. It's got lots of hype behind it, but it's one of the crowd.

Yeah--but look at 11 random people around you. Do you honestly think there are enough non-sheep among them to stand up against tyranny?

You sir, are a Philistine.

Agreed--if they did something wrong, the legal system needs to deal with them. I'm not defending theft. What I am defending is the endless stream of laws the government puts out to help idiots and hinder smart people.

What consequences?

Every time I have to deal with a public bureaucrat or official, I'm showing ID of some sort. Every. Time.

So what's the problem?

Suppose you actually understand respect the law instead of putting mocking quotes around literal concepts, and I would think you're actually interested in the answer instead of being a pompous ass.

Are you seriously looking for enlightenment? Because what you posted shows that you've already reached your conclusion, and you're passing that concept on to us poor unwashed.

You know what else is expressly forbidden? Lying about what your drug is approved by the FDA for. Not just marketing off-label uses (also illegal), but flat out lying about what is on-label. But Pfizer still did that, and got away with it even after they were caught.

You really think they don't offer kickbacks too?

I thought the Nazis were decried because of death camps, not requiring papers.

how do you think they worked out who to put in the death camps?

Yes, I do, actually. It's always in my pants. Carrying my ID with me is as much common sense as wearing pants is. It's been like that as long as I've HAD some form of ID. While I don't carry it when I'm in the bath, it's sure as hell in my pants pocket, which is easy enough to get to since I'm not going to be taken to the police station naked.

Even for people who don't look Japanese, it's not like that gives them some special license to not carry ID... I imagine most Japanese people carry around their wallet or a card wallet of some sort, which has, at minimum, their driver's license or health insurance card, both of which are ID. So it should really be a non-issue.

Honestly, perhaps you should re-direct that anger to the people that have, actually, earned it (a.k.a. the Federal immigrations officials responsible for the back-log and the congressmen/women who haven't bothered to fund them adequately). If they were doing their job right, you wouldn't be having problems.

Pretty sure the businesses of Arizona support the politicians who enacted this law.

Personally, I wouldn't put the system on my own ships. I'd put them on my target's ships. That way if they want to blow up the source, they're destroying their own resources.

Current security is inadequate. We need to switch to whitelisting instead of blacklisting.

I'm not a lawyer, but nowhere in the 4th amendement does it say that it only applies to citizens. It just says "The right of the people"