Those that don't like the terms & conditions of their iPhone contract shouldn't have signed it.

Half the replies here are:

And people wonder why the IT industry is so stereotyped and maligned by other people.

It'll be interesting to see how far these asshole attitudes get you in the middle of a recession, I sincerely hope these people don't lose their jobs and wind up living in the gutter /sarcasm

Sometimes I wish I could just killall rmsSoapbox

So the amount of time and effort somebody else put into perfecting a massive piece of software counts for nothing if they don't get it to YOU, when YOU want it, in the medium YOU want and at a price YOU dictate? Sounds reasonable and unselfish. The reason most people torrent stuff like this is, basically, greed. There are some justifications, sure, but the whole "try before I buy" arguments and all its bastard offspring are pure fiction.

Personally I think it'd be awesome if somebody set up a system that got the locations of confirmed cases (like pigflumap.com) vs. the locations people were Twittering from, and mapped out the overlapping areas where people had a genuine reason to be worried. Anyone know about a way to go about this?

Incorrect. There were a series of wildcat strikes because we have a legacy of being fucked up the ass by trade unions who refuse to accept that UK labour is unwilling to adapt in order to become competitive (read: lazy). It was all over a grand total of 198 jobs. Wow.

Care to back that up?

Now THAT is ironic

-1, sense of humour failure

Meh, I'm still hurting from his speech on herpes...

That "it's someone else's problem" attitude utterly stinks. My guess is that the guy actually *cares* about the reputation of his company and takes pride in its work, which might be a novel concept to some people. Like it or not, software piracy is illegal; the fact that you have an axe to grind about Microsoft doesn't detract from that

doesn't this belong in Idle? On the grounds that it's a dupe that wasn't funny in the first place

DEAR GOD!

...if Microsoft were playing the whole "New Coke" strategy on an epic scale...

1)Release Good OS (XP)

2)Release Worse OS (Vista)

3)Extend life cycle of Good OS until Good OS II (7) is released

4)Provide minimal support for Worse OS whilst users take up Good OS II in their droves due to Worse OS's crappiness and Good OS's retirement

5)PROFIT???

6)PROFIT!!!

Repeat every 20 years until dead

Wrong forum, buddy

I guess if it worked for Angry German Kid...