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vpn tunnel. then there's no way they can tell what or where you are going.

and inertia. It's thinking like this that causes the smaller companies to outpace, outgrow, and eventually eclipse larger companies.

we're supportive in watching MS get what it's dishing out.

fast is a relative term. If we're talking about VS 2010, then it's fast versus building an IDE with ed on your own.

Honestly, I think you should really just consider checking your attitude and your politics at the door because loving Microsoft and all that proprietary software is just so old-school. It's boring and nobody cares that you think free software is evil.

think of it as an agent of accelerated evolution

in the long run, we're all dead - so better we go ahead and die now?

they do charge YouTube, it's just hidden in the ISP to ISP agreements.

Which makes the licensing of Android phones even more ironic. MS is using the patent system to do to phone manufacturers what MS did to PC manufacturers decades ago.

kind of like people can never imagine caring for their elders without having Social Security, or having to pay for doctor's care for their elders without Medicare/Medicaid. We just become more and more dependent on the government to supply what used to be the responsibility of each and every individual. And as that happens, our individual freedoms are slowly diminished and extinguished.

and there's the problem: if you have to have people that specialize in understanding the law, the law is too complex to be allowed to continue in that form. How can a 'normal' person abide by the law if they can't understand it?

nah, that's just consensus building - another trait of the female of the species. I've seen it plenty of times before: it takes me 10 minutes to make a decision, and I call no one. It takes my wife two days, as she goes through her address book, calling friends and talking it out with them.

It's kind of interesting to look at it this way, and it also presents something of a way out: if all of these companies followed the same procedures (patent-clueless engineers), and all of these engineers STILL came up with the same method, it stands to reason that the method is obvious.

CR/LF. That's why.

which unfortunately meant bending the very foundations of capitalism and free market 360 degrees and making sure those institutes do not fail and implode our economy.

That would be 180 degrees. 360 is a complete circle ;)