Considering how energetic he seems now at 82, I wouldn't count out seeing him still be around as a centenarian.

He probably drives an old Beetle. :-)

I'm a radical libertarian and I would happily buy an electric car under the right circumstances. Having the biggest carbon footprint isn't some sort of twisted measure of how free you are.

Considering that Knight Rider was first on the air in 1982, I don't think I can agree.

Considering that they're competitors, I find this hard to believe.

Troll? Dafuq?

Consider the personalities involved. I think Thatcher would have done what it took to hold them even if it was clear there was nothing there but sheep.

I agree. For things to have gotten this bad, there's an awful lot of blame to go around. For example, the judicial branch isn't any better here either.

The sad thing is that I now remember fondly when Obama was compared to Carter. Now it's more like he's channelling Nixon.

I don't think so. I think the sales of the Boston Globe and the Washington Post this week show that old guard newspapers are now conspicuous consumption options for the super rich.

I don't know if it's "crashes everything" more often, or if it's usually just silly QA things where things are just not seamless, and malfunction in an inconvenient way that gets in the way of productivity. But broadly speaking I have to agree with you, and I say that as someone who's used Linux on the desktop for several years and no interest whatsoever in switching back to Windows.

Yes, it is great that we have so many choices. The problem getting Linux onto most users' desktops hasn't been that there are so many options. Usually when it comes to "Linux on the Desktop!!!!" there's only been one main distro getting buzz at a time, most recently Ubuntu but going back at least as far as Caldera back in the late '90s. So I don't think brand confusion is the issue here.

I don't see how a firesale would harm their chances of that. If anything, it would get products with their brand into people's hands, so that (unless it sucks) they might become known as a brand whose products in that space are worth consideration.

I mean, right now they just look like their standing there with their dicks hanging out. They don't have much to lose here.

And keeping them in a warehouse does what good for shareholders, exactly?

That's okay. After all, legislators don't read it either.