Okay, its bad enough that you trust your government, but do you trust all the others? You may not be aware of this but everyone likes to share their data with other governments and other organizations for legal as well as health reasons. Where do you think that WHO gets their data from? People on the street one by one? No they get it from yours, mine, and the others governments!
You are guilty until proven innocent. The entire mandate of every police force is to bring arrest and deal with anyone not following the law, and it is much easier to catch criminals when we just go ahead and let the police harass, beat, abuse, and/or threaten the citizens to be compliant little subjects.
If you believe that EA has a case here please do humanity a favor and stay away from the rest of us.
The Sims is not a unique or original idea of a game. In fact far to many games to even mention have implemented some form of EA's game function in part. Imagine if EA could win such a case. Next will be WOW shutting down because as popular as it is, they certainly are not the first even though people like to call other games "WOW Clones". Another of the multitude of game developers have already done WOW before it was an idea in the board room. Same goes for FPS, RPG, & RTS games just to name the most popular genre's. We should be more concerned with all the litigation wars that would start over games because of this.
It's simple, if someone beats Maxis at their own game and does a better "SIMS" clone then too damn bad for Maxis! This is the game industry, every game company has been trying to one up each other year after year for the past 2 decades as it is and I like to keep it that way!!!!
Did you not read my response? I said it was tongue in cheek, which means that I did not seriously expect that the Judge should make a snap decision. However, an easy decision we very reachable for any judge who actually read about what they were presiding over. Additionally, you guys are taking this a little too seriously.
Here is how it happens. Governments participate in your regular everyday scams just like any other business. It is more profitable for a Patent Office to issue Patents easily encouraging companies to file for multiple patents hopping they stick like spaghetti on the wall so that they troll cash out when a competitor employ's "their idea" in a way that takes their customers away from them or to just to collect a nice paycheck. Meanwhile the Patent Office rakes it in on the fees.
The Patent office does not care if the patent they just approved looks 99% like another patent just so long as they can claim enough difference to allow it pass. For example, "Swipe to Unlock" could seriously be considered different enough from "Slide to Unlock" to grant a patent that effectively is the same thing to 2 separate entities.
Yes, I know that judge's should not make snap decisions, it was mainly said TIC but you are right about the High Court in London having nothing to do with USPTO. I got carried away, however the UK IPO has very similar rules. My complaint is not readily dismissed because I failed to identify the proper authority in my post.
Huh? The Judge was stupid for other reasons, but patenting something to save people from something else seems to be a little illogical. Perhaps you should clarify what you mean.
that the Judge did not rule in the first 5 minutes of the case that a "slide to unlock" patent was complete and utter void. Following that up with a Hefty Fine of wasting taxpayers time and effort with such foolishness. Would have given him bonus points for finding the USPTO in contempt for even issuing the patent but that would obviously be beyond the scope of his authority. But he sure could have made some key comments! After which a class action could be started by the industry against the USPTO for their.... stupidity!
However, this judge like every other self important judge fails to even realize their importance in society.
A best attempt is a best attempt and everyone has their strengths and weaknesses. There is a lot of superstition to the majority of religion and the usage of that as a tool to reward desired behavior is still very much a construct by man. Science has the very same pursuit of convincing people that there is a reward for desired behavior. A more intelligent person would choose words that cannot be reflected back so easily against their own position.
Your assumption that Faith pursues obedience is false. If I belong to a faith that instructs me to give to charity and I do so because I actually care is that being obedient to my faith or is that a reflection of why I choose that faith? So you see, a Faith may be pursued because the person likes and believes in that path not just because someone browbeat them into it. Only a closed minded and ignorant person would fail to see that significant detail and consider it nothing more than obedience.
Yes it is very difficult to reconcile Science and Religion to persons with a closed mind like yours. However, computing virtual realities prove how a god can exist in our reality. A common example people like to use to disprove a god is a question that asks if a god is powerful enough to create a rock so heavy that the god cannot lift it. This question is an obvious paradox, but inside a virtual world in a computer a programmer (a god in that reality) has exactly the same omnipotent power that a god has and can create anything within that reality and impose any rule the programmer wishes, including rules that do not follow any natural laws that are observable or established inside that reality.
So depending upon which religion is correct the deity that is personified in that religion may exist inside/outside of our reality that can break and bend every conceivable law that confines and binds our own existence. So the short story here is that only people with minds as closed, ignorant, and stupid as the church of old and the science of today, take up a position that considers science and religion to be at inherently odds with each other.
So if such a deity came down and created a diamond in front of you and the world with every camera rolling, such a deity could do so in a way that allowed you any everyone see it happen and not a single camera could record it. Furthermore, that diamond could be brought to a lab, and test to be million, billion, or trillions of years old despite the fact that you and everyone else saw that it was only recently created.
So its simple either a particular religion and its deity(s) are real or fake, and if one is real then it DOES NOT REQUIRE that Science and Religion to be irreconcilable.
Science and Religion are not at odds with each other and they should never be, however religious institutions and scientific institutions are commonly at odds with each other. It is very important to distinguish the difference and while generalizations are usually the case, it needs to be understood that exceptions will always exist.
Science is humans best attempt at understanding/explaining the world we observe around us.
Religion is humans best attempt at understanding/explaining the world we sense but cannot directly scientifically observe around us.
Science and Religious institutions are usually at odds with each other and this is a normal occurrence due to the natural behavior of humans using their knowledge, abilities, and experience to ridicule, harrass, or oppress others. I have seen evil conducted in the name of science and religion. We have waged wars for even less and getting rid of science or religion are not he answers.
The persecution and degradation is readily available from the religious and non-religious alike and proves that institutions and the heart of man are the core of what is wrong with everything in society and government.
Science and Religion can both be trusted when the pursuit is of the truth, however the human element will continually persist in polluting that truth to their own ends casting doubt everywhere.
Identification Cards should be provided for Free (once per year) and paid for by taxes. This does not mean free DL's.
Ensuring that a person voting is a citizen should not be such a problem. After all, the very people you say it will cause an issue for manage to get a lot of other things that require identification such as bank accounts, rental accounts, vehicles, and rental property.
If you lack the capability to obtain identification in today's society then I would submit that such a person should not be voting due to diminished faculty to begin with! Such people should not be participating in the direction any country should be heading.
It almost seems that these conversations seem to point out the errors of the "Good Guy's" ways more than the errors of the "Asshole's" ways.
I will be honest, I do not feel sorry if a bully is over punished for their transgressions. A person/nation/business/organization that is willing to allow wrong doing in their pursuits deserves every bit the shit kicking it gets when the tax collector comes to call.
This does not excuse anyone for horrific acts during war, but it should neither prevent a nation from visiting the necessary devastation in the defeat of their enemies. Raping and torture is never acceptable in any setting, but shooting first and asking questions later sometimes is!
It never ceases to amaze me how people can consistently take words out of context, or just flat out misuse or construe their meanings.
It is IMPOSSIBLE to STEAL LIFE! Murder is not the theft of a persons life because it is the destruction/extinguishing/termination of a life. In order for you to steal life, it must subsequently become your possession by way of theft. Once you kill someone that life is gone and cannot be retrieved and neither does it become your domain. A simplistic comparison would be, if I destroyed a House belonging to someone else would I be charged with Destruction of Property or would I be charged with Grand Theft House? Is there even a classification for Grand Theft Life?
At the end of the day it may be easy to just call people Hitlers, Socialists, Left/Right Wing Nuts, Crazy or otherwise but there is never a good time for redefining the definitions of words in the midst of an argument. It is even worse when a word is being used by two parties that do not even recognize its origin or context of use. A perfect example is the common argument about Christ being nailed to the Cross by His hands instead of His risks! Back in the day the word for hand could be used to indicate anywhere from the finger tips to the elbow. That leaves a large area for Christ to have been nailed down with, but perfectly describes the sort of arguments that can be had when people are not really thinking about what the words really mean. Such as this case where people can ignorantly equate Murder with Theft of Life. Murder has a meaning and Theft has a meaning and they are not equivocal by any stretch!
There is a vast difference between storage you can go buy in a store and storage your IT department operates.
1 Terrabyte of usable space with replication can easily be $5,000 to $10,000 depending on how much performance you are needing on it. Additionally there may be other tertiary requirements for this such as backup and the possibility of needing to extend/attach more controllers, enclosures, fabrics or other devices necessary to deal with your type of SAN, NAS, DAS storage appliances just to get you that extra space.
Your data demands may very well exceed your worth if you think that drive space is dirt cheap in a business setting. Storage vendors are absolutely 'chest beating' proud of their products and they will spit and scream about it on your face how awesome their shit is and that its worth every penny!
I am only referring to the article linked in this story, additionally all of my comments are regarding the information on Mr. Ludwig.
Additionally the article in the link has no references to anything in Germany that I could find. Maybe you need to point out where the discrepancies are rather than just saying they exist.
If you read the article the treatment destroys ALL B-Cells good and bad while the new T-cells are present. With this I can certainly understand why the doctors are still reluctant to party. But it is definitely good to still have in the arsenal.
We can consider treatment a win when the disease is eliminated, the modified cells are gone, and normal biological operation is restored. But in the case of this treatment, if the special t-cells all die, then the reproduction of bad B-Cells may resume.
The really scary part of this all is the usage of HIV virus. Yes it's gutted but the wonderful thing about viruses is that they have the nasty habit of adapting to survive and if the theory on evolution is true, then eventually it's going to happen. The source of change may come from one of the cells being modified behaving in a way that is unexpected because it has damaged DNA and voila, that damaged DNA combines with the RNA to create something else. Heck, the RNA in the vector could become damaged and start another fun experiment to stop the new threat or it could just become wasted and die out.
For now I would just classify this stuff as interesting but definitely a little scary.
This will turn out to be just another problem party.
Go and read George Washington's farewell address. He predicted the civil war and basically said that everyone should consider that they are Americans first and stop dividing themselves according to geography and party lines.
How about instead, we create a law that legally prevents the formation of any political party of any kind. Lets make people actually have to learn about who they are voting for instead of just looking for the D or the R on the ballot. At the rate things are going, we will probably choose the better candidate on accident than we ever will intentionally!
The hacking, compromising, or intrusion of a computer system has nothing to do with the copying/distribution of copy protected works. The unlawful access of a computer system is already against the law and there is nothing this act would do to improve security because security is up to each individual organization and how they implement it.
This is classic politics at work folks, keep your eye on the ball!
For most intents and purposes this is not that news worthy. In order to get processing performance like this you need a system that can also answer billions of password guesses per second. So keeping it simple, you need to get said database, make it function on/in a system/environment that can handle and that will allow this much activity for all those guesses.
ergo, someone has to jack yo shit before they can start guessing your password which may be more difficult than just trying to guess that password leaving you back to square one where you will most likely do something OTHER than a brute force/dictionary password attack!
This is not a button pressing campaign, its a point out the double standards campaign. I am genuinely interested in at least one of you actually describing me a real valid reason for this double standard without a "we have no choice" excuse.
It's the same question I have of everyone that says, "I am moving out if so-and-so is elected".
Yep... just like normal, all sheeple mouth and no brass to back it up. I really am an equal opportunity offender!
By your reasoning all accusers are guilty of the same misdeeds as the accused. Fantastic logic there!
The key here is KNOWINGLY contributing your money to a cause that you campaign against. If you are ignorant of what a company is doing I do not expect you to know better neither can you be blamed for hypocrisy. Now, despite that, most fans are well aware of the dealings of those they worship, therefore they cannot be expected to be as ignorant as others.
If you espouse "Human Rights", then make it a point to Fan Boi Apple, then you are most likely guilty of hypocrisy. If you don't care about the workers at Foxconn, or do care and don't buy Apple then you are not a hypocrite in this matter. One also cannot be a hypocrite in ignorance, but they are not blameless in will full ignorance.
My intent is not to paint Mac users as more hypocritical over other tech users. As a Techie myself I know that hypocrisy is filled to the brim in my career. I do not advance any OS over the other one because I know better. You can configure just about any OS to be ROCK SOLID if you are capable enough. Each OS has a pro and a con that you simply need to be aware of in your considerations.
It is indeed hypocritical to advance any cause while knowingly supporting against it with your money. Foxconn's dealings are not much of a secret these days, it would be hard for me to believe that "Mac" fans are ignorant of this.
For me I actually have more problems with Apple than I do Foxconn. I do not hold a company responsible for people that commit suicide as the person is killing them self. There are more problems than meets the eye here, however knowing that it is common for person of the left persuasion to blame Foxconn more than the self destroying, it is only fair to ask why this dishonesty continues.
Most people had Microsoft because they think they are a tyrant of a company, well Apply has them beat by a long shot. You can't develop anything for their platform without Apple getting a slice of your pie. You can develop all sorts of things for most of the other OS's without them even interfering! Microsoft may not be an open source platform but they are far more open than Apple, which is why MS won the desktop war.
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Helps them to be dishonest about results and the research.
It is Science folks... what purpose is served by keeping it secret? Unless someone is up to no good eh?
Okay, its bad enough that you trust your government, but do you trust all the others? You may not be aware of this but everyone likes to share their data with other governments and other organizations for legal as well as health reasons. Where do you think that WHO gets their data from? People on the street one by one? No they get it from yours, mine, and the others governments!
You are guilty until proven innocent. The entire mandate of every police force is to bring arrest and deal with anyone not following the law, and it is much easier to catch criminals when we just go ahead and let the police harass, beat, abuse, and/or threaten the citizens to be compliant little subjects.
If you believe that EA has a case here please do humanity a favor and stay away from the rest of us.
The Sims is not a unique or original idea of a game. In fact far to many games to even mention have implemented some form of EA's game function in part. Imagine if EA could win such a case. Next will be WOW shutting down because as popular as it is, they certainly are not the first even though people like to call other games "WOW Clones". Another of the multitude of game developers have already done WOW before it was an idea in the board room. Same goes for FPS, RPG, & RTS games just to name the most popular genre's. We should be more concerned with all the litigation wars that would start over games because of this.
It's simple, if someone beats Maxis at their own game and does a better "SIMS" clone then too damn bad for Maxis! This is the game industry, every game company has been trying to one up each other year after year for the past 2 decades as it is and I like to keep it that way!!!!
Did you not read my response? I said it was tongue in cheek, which means that I did not seriously expect that the Judge should make a snap decision. However, an easy decision we very reachable for any judge who actually read about what they were presiding over. Additionally, you guys are taking this a little too seriously.
Here is how it happens. Governments participate in your regular everyday scams just like any other business. It is more profitable for a Patent Office to issue Patents easily encouraging companies to file for multiple patents hopping they stick like spaghetti on the wall so that they troll cash out when a competitor employ's "their idea" in a way that takes their customers away from them or to just to collect a nice paycheck. Meanwhile the Patent Office rakes it in on the fees.
The Patent office does not care if the patent they just approved looks 99% like another patent just so long as they can claim enough difference to allow it pass. For example, "Swipe to Unlock" could seriously be considered different enough from "Slide to Unlock" to grant a patent that effectively is the same thing to 2 separate entities.
It is all about the Money and nothing else.
Yes, I know that judge's should not make snap decisions, it was mainly said TIC but you are right about the High Court in London having nothing to do with USPTO. I got carried away, however the UK IPO has very similar rules. My complaint is not readily dismissed because I failed to identify the proper authority in my post.
http://www.ipo.gov.uk/p-requirements.htm
Huh? The Judge was stupid for other reasons, but patenting something to save people from something else seems to be a little illogical. Perhaps you should clarify what you mean.
Here is your chance to file a "Circle to Unlock" patent before 1 of a billion people with a brain beat you or a corporation to it!
that the Judge did not rule in the first 5 minutes of the case that a "slide to unlock" patent was complete and utter void. Following that up with a Hefty Fine of wasting taxpayers time and effort with such foolishness. Would have given him bonus points for finding the USPTO in contempt for even issuing the patent but that would obviously be beyond the scope of his authority. But he sure could have made some key comments! After which a class action could be started by the industry against the USPTO for their.... stupidity!
However, this judge like every other self important judge fails to even realize their importance in society.
or you stand the with the child pornographers...
Someone needs to spit this line right back at them!
You are a prime example of a bad element.
A best attempt is a best attempt and everyone has their strengths and weaknesses. There is a lot of superstition to the majority of religion and the usage of that as a tool to reward desired behavior is still very much a construct by man. Science has the very same pursuit of convincing people that there is a reward for desired behavior. A more intelligent person would choose words that cannot be reflected back so easily against their own position.
Your assumption that Faith pursues obedience is false. If I belong to a faith that instructs me to give to charity and I do so because I actually care is that being obedient to my faith or is that a reflection of why I choose that faith? So you see, a Faith may be pursued because the person likes and believes in that path not just because someone browbeat them into it. Only a closed minded and ignorant person would fail to see that significant detail and consider it nothing more than obedience.
Yes it is very difficult to reconcile Science and Religion to persons with a closed mind like yours. However, computing virtual realities prove how a god can exist in our reality. A common example people like to use to disprove a god is a question that asks if a god is powerful enough to create a rock so heavy that the god cannot lift it. This question is an obvious paradox, but inside a virtual world in a computer a programmer (a god in that reality) has exactly the same omnipotent power that a god has and can create anything within that reality and impose any rule the programmer wishes, including rules that do not follow any natural laws that are observable or established inside that reality.
So depending upon which religion is correct the deity that is personified in that religion may exist inside/outside of our reality that can break and bend every conceivable law that confines and binds our own existence. So the short story here is that only people with minds as closed, ignorant, and stupid as the church of old and the science of today, take up a position that considers science and religion to be at inherently odds with each other.
So if such a deity came down and created a diamond in front of you and the world with every camera rolling, such a deity could do so in a way that allowed you any everyone see it happen and not a single camera could record it. Furthermore, that diamond could be brought to a lab, and test to be million, billion, or trillions of years old despite the fact that you and everyone else saw that it was only recently created.
So its simple either a particular religion and its deity(s) are real or fake, and if one is real then it DOES NOT REQUIRE that Science and Religion to be irreconcilable.
Science and Religion are not at odds with each other and they should never be, however religious institutions and scientific institutions are commonly at odds with each other. It is very important to distinguish the difference and while generalizations are usually the case, it needs to be understood that exceptions will always exist.
Science is humans best attempt at understanding/explaining the world we observe around us.
Religion is humans best attempt at understanding/explaining the world we sense but cannot directly scientifically observe around us.
Science and Religious institutions are usually at odds with each other and this is a normal occurrence due to the natural behavior of humans using their knowledge, abilities, and experience to ridicule, harrass, or oppress others. I have seen evil conducted in the name of science and religion. We have waged wars for even less and getting rid of science or religion are not he answers.
The persecution and degradation is readily available from the religious and non-religious alike and proves that institutions and the heart of man are the core of what is wrong with everything in society and government.
Science and Religion can both be trusted when the pursuit is of the truth, however the human element will continually persist in polluting that truth to their own ends casting doubt everywhere.
Identification Cards should be provided for Free (once per year) and paid for by taxes. This does not mean free DL's.
Ensuring that a person voting is a citizen should not be such a problem. After all, the very people you say it will cause an issue for manage to get a lot of other things that require identification such as bank accounts, rental accounts, vehicles, and rental property.
If you lack the capability to obtain identification in today's society then I would submit that such a person should not be voting due to diminished faculty to begin with! Such people should not be participating in the direction any country should be heading.
It almost seems that these conversations seem to point out the errors of the "Good Guy's" ways more than the errors of the "Asshole's" ways.
I will be honest, I do not feel sorry if a bully is over punished for their transgressions. A person/nation/business/organization that is willing to allow wrong doing in their pursuits deserves every bit the shit kicking it gets when the tax collector comes to call.
This does not excuse anyone for horrific acts during war, but it should neither prevent a nation from visiting the necessary devastation in the defeat of their enemies. Raping and torture is never acceptable in any setting, but shooting first and asking questions later sometimes is!
It never ceases to amaze me how people can consistently take words out of context, or just flat out misuse or construe their meanings.
It is IMPOSSIBLE to STEAL LIFE! Murder is not the theft of a persons life because it is the destruction/extinguishing/termination of a life. In order for you to steal life, it must subsequently become your possession by way of theft. Once you kill someone that life is gone and cannot be retrieved and neither does it become your domain. A simplistic comparison would be, if I destroyed a House belonging to someone else would I be charged with Destruction of Property or would I be charged with Grand Theft House? Is there even a classification for Grand Theft Life?
At the end of the day it may be easy to just call people Hitlers, Socialists, Left/Right Wing Nuts, Crazy or otherwise but there is never a good time for redefining the definitions of words in the midst of an argument. It is even worse when a word is being used by two parties that do not even recognize its origin or context of use. A perfect example is the common argument about Christ being nailed to the Cross by His hands instead of His risks! Back in the day the word for hand could be used to indicate anywhere from the finger tips to the elbow. That leaves a large area for Christ to have been nailed down with, but perfectly describes the sort of arguments that can be had when people are not really thinking about what the words really mean. Such as this case where people can ignorantly equate Murder with Theft of Life. Murder has a meaning and Theft has a meaning and they are not equivocal by any stretch!
There is a vast difference between storage you can go buy in a store and storage your IT department operates.
1 Terrabyte of usable space with replication can easily be $5,000 to $10,000 depending on how much performance you are needing on it. Additionally there may be other tertiary requirements for this such as backup and the possibility of needing to extend/attach more controllers, enclosures, fabrics or other devices necessary to deal with your type of SAN, NAS, DAS storage appliances just to get you that extra space.
Your data demands may very well exceed your worth if you think that drive space is dirt cheap in a business setting. Storage vendors are absolutely 'chest beating' proud of their products and they will spit and scream about it on your face how awesome their shit is and that its worth every penny!
I am only referring to the article linked in this story, additionally all of my comments are regarding the information on Mr. Ludwig.
Additionally the article in the link has no references to anything in Germany that I could find. Maybe you need to point out where the discrepancies are rather than just saying they exist.
If you read the article the treatment destroys ALL B-Cells good and bad while the new T-cells are present. With this I can certainly understand why the doctors are still reluctant to party. But it is definitely good to still have in the arsenal.
We can consider treatment a win when the disease is eliminated, the modified cells are gone, and normal biological operation is restored. But in the case of this treatment, if the special t-cells all die, then the reproduction of bad B-Cells may resume.
The really scary part of this all is the usage of HIV virus. Yes it's gutted but the wonderful thing about viruses is that they have the nasty habit of adapting to survive and if the theory on evolution is true, then eventually it's going to happen. The source of change may come from one of the cells being modified behaving in a way that is unexpected because it has damaged DNA and voila, that damaged DNA combines with the RNA to create something else. Heck, the RNA in the vector could become damaged and start another fun experiment to stop the new threat or it could just become wasted and die out.
For now I would just classify this stuff as interesting but definitely a little scary.
This will turn out to be just another problem party.
Go and read George Washington's farewell address. He predicted the civil war and basically said that everyone should consider that they are Americans first and stop dividing themselves according to geography and party lines.
How about instead, we create a law that legally prevents the formation of any political party of any kind. Lets make people actually have to learn about who they are voting for instead of just looking for the D or the R on the ballot. At the rate things are going, we will probably choose the better candidate on accident than we ever will intentionally!
The hacking, compromising, or intrusion of a computer system has nothing to do with the copying/distribution of copy protected works. The unlawful access of a computer system is already against the law and there is nothing this act would do to improve security because security is up to each individual organization and how they implement it.
This is classic politics at work folks, keep your eye on the ball!
For most intents and purposes this is not that news worthy. In order to get processing performance like this you need a system that can also answer billions of password guesses per second. So keeping it simple, you need to get said database, make it function on/in a system/environment that can handle and that will allow this much activity for all those guesses.
ergo, someone has to jack yo shit before they can start guessing your password which may be more difficult than just trying to guess that password leaving you back to square one where you will most likely do something OTHER than a brute force/dictionary password attack!
Truth hurts?
This is not a button pressing campaign, its a point out the double standards campaign. I am genuinely interested in at least one of you actually describing me a real valid reason for this double standard without a "we have no choice" excuse.
It's the same question I have of everyone that says, "I am moving out if so-and-so is elected".
Yep... just like normal, all sheeple mouth and no brass to back it up. I really am an equal opportunity offender!
By your reasoning all accusers are guilty of the same misdeeds as the accused. Fantastic logic there!
The key here is KNOWINGLY contributing your money to a cause that you campaign against. If you are ignorant of what a company is doing I do not expect you to know better neither can you be blamed for hypocrisy. Now, despite that, most fans are well aware of the dealings of those they worship, therefore they cannot be expected to be as ignorant as others.
If you espouse "Human Rights", then make it a point to Fan Boi Apple, then you are most likely guilty of hypocrisy. If you don't care about the workers at Foxconn, or do care and don't buy Apple then you are not a hypocrite in this matter. One also cannot be a hypocrite in ignorance, but they are not blameless in will full ignorance.
For non-sheeple my logic is easy to grasp.
My intent is not to paint Mac users as more hypocritical over other tech users. As a Techie myself I know that hypocrisy is filled to the brim in my career. I do not advance any OS over the other one because I know better. You can configure just about any OS to be ROCK SOLID if you are capable enough. Each OS has a pro and a con that you simply need to be aware of in your considerations.
It is indeed hypocritical to advance any cause while knowingly supporting against it with your money. Foxconn's dealings are not much of a secret these days, it would be hard for me to believe that "Mac" fans are ignorant of this.
For me I actually have more problems with Apple than I do Foxconn. I do not hold a company responsible for people that commit suicide as the person is killing them self. There are more problems than meets the eye here, however knowing that it is common for person of the left persuasion to blame Foxconn more than the self destroying, it is only fair to ask why this dishonesty continues.
Most people had Microsoft because they think they are a tyrant of a company, well Apply has them beat by a long shot. You can't develop anything for their platform without Apple getting a slice of your pie. You can develop all sorts of things for most of the other OS's without them even interfering! Microsoft may not be an open source platform but they are far more open than Apple, which is why MS won the desktop war.