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  1. Re:People still buy tube TVs? on EU Issues Largest Antitrust Fine to Date for CRT TV Price Fixing · · Score: 1

    Criminals shouldn't be punished? Politicians try cases?

  2. Re:Congress Sucks on Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science · · Score: 1

    Until it's you that the health insurance company refuses to pay for. I bet you won't be so callous then.

  3. Re:Understanding Burton on Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science · · Score: 2

    Yeah those poor persecuted billion dollar world controlling artificial entities and the suffering billionaires who run them. How on earth can you say with a straight face that fear of the too powerful is in any way equivalent to persecution.

  4. Bournville on Scientists Develop Chocolate That Won't Melt At High Temperatures · · Score: 1
  5. Re:This is a good thing on Windows Blue: Microsoft's Plan To Release a New Version of Windows Every Year · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should ask people what they think of Windows some time rather than assuming that it sells well because it's good. It sells well because it's always sold well and it's a pain to switch away from given that the options are much more expensive (Windows laptops start at 250GBP here, Macbook Airs start at 999GBP) or havereduced compatibility (Linux, despite what the delusional people on here will have you believe, doesn't run a great deal of the software and hardware that ordinary people want to use). No-one uses Windows because they like, they use it because it runs the stuff they want it to run.

  6. Re:Too expensive. on Media Center Key Accidentally Gives Pirates Free Windows 8 Pro License · · Score: 1

    Until you want to use a piece of software that doesn't run on Kubuntu. Then the $0 means nothing. Now off you go and pretend that everything on Windows has a Linux equivalent.

  7. Re:It wasn't time on Windows 8 Sales Below Projections · · Score: 1

    You're brave. Every time I dare to suggest that Ubuntu might not be the greatest desktop OS ever using my own experiences with it as examples I get called a Microsoft shill and worse. I'm so much of an MS shill in fact that I'm typing this on a Mac in Chrome and haven't used Windows outside work for months.

  8. Re:microsoft looks to have fired to architect of w on Windows 8 Sales Below Projections · · Score: 1

    Well obviously...why anyone wouldn't think of doing that is beyond me.

  9. Re:Supporting standards that don't exist? on IE 10 Almost Finished For Windows 7 With Final Preview · · Score: 1

    We can't have more modern sites because IE is updated so slowly. By the time IE10 comes out for an OS people actually use, IE9 will have spent 2 years in production without any updates to its capabilities. The corporate inertia is coming from Redmond not anywhere else.

  10. Re:You're blaming the open source browser...? on IE 10 Almost Finished For Windows 7 With Final Preview · · Score: 1

    I'm quite weary of IE myself.

  11. Re:Corporate use on IE 10 Almost Finished For Windows 7 With Final Preview · · Score: 1

    The price is probably a factor too.

  12. Re:Right... like every vendor on Microsoft Makes Direct X 11.1 a Windows 8 Exclusive · · Score: 1

    Why is it so difficult to understand that the reason that XP has stuck around so long is because Vista and 7 cannot run a great deal of software and hardware that businesses use and depend on? That's all. No conditioning of the under 30s not to upgrade but a simple business decision to carry on using stuff that already works. Why do you think Microsoft included XP Mode in 7?

  13. Re:except.... on Director General of BBC Resigns Over "Poor Journalism" · · Score: 1

    The Daily Mail is notorious for lying. Shame on you for linking to them.

  14. Re:Jimmie McAlpine on Director General of BBC Resigns Over "Poor Journalism" · · Score: 1

    In what way is the BBC Labour focused? I don't give a shit about what Mark Thompson said, show me some actual examples.

  15. Re:Wow - but why the BBC? on Director General of BBC Resigns Over "Poor Journalism" · · Score: 1

    [citation needed]

  16. Re:BBC Forward! on Director General of BBC Resigns Over "Poor Journalism" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The press (who have no vested interest in bringing down the BBC oh no) have been putting the boot in for years so it must be true! The Commie BBC with their homo pinko agenda must be destroyed and replaced with the serious journalism and honest reporting that gave us the hacking of a murdered teenager's voicemail.

  17. Re:shame on Toshiba Pursues Copyright Claim Against Laptop Manual Site · · Score: 1

    Why didn't he ask them first?

  18. Re:Time for Apple to go for the jugular on Sharp Warns That It Might Collapse · · Score: 1

    And yet Thatcher is still a heroine to so many people.

  19. You should never question the OSS religion on here. I used to use Linux exclusively but it seemed to get worse over the years and now I really can't be arsed to fight with it. I've said so on here a few times and the abuse I've had for it is just pathetic.

  20. Re:No on Ask Slashdot: Is Samba4 a Viable Alternative To Active Directory? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    An Apple/Microsoft site? What fucking planet are you on?

  21. Re:OK, stick a fork in them, they're done. on Apple Hides Samsung Apology So It Can't Be Seen Without Scrolling · · Score: 1

    Can we factor in TVs and set top boxes as well then given that loads of them run Linux too.

  22. Re:Not shocked on Security Firm VUPEN Claims To Have Hacked Windows 8 and IE10 · · Score: 1

    I feel your pain. Microsoft Dynamics CRM regularly throws up such gems as "An unknown error has occurred" which you then have to spend days trying to figure out via Google or in extreme cases disassembling the DLLs. Microsoft just seem totally averse to providing decent error messages or any documentation to suggest what caused the error message. I see the new blue screen doesn't have any "scary" useful information on it any more either.

  23. Re:the real scandal on Journalist Arrested In Greece For Publishing List of Possible Tax-Evaders · · Score: 1

    There are no savings? Apart from the money that is in thousands of savings accounts. I personally have savings. What are you on about?

  24. Re:Tax records on Journalist Arrested In Greece For Publishing List of Possible Tax-Evaders · · Score: 1

    Allowing them to die due to lack of adequate medical care however is a tenet of your philosophy.

  25. Re:Tax records on Journalist Arrested In Greece For Publishing List of Possible Tax-Evaders · · Score: 1

    Don't waste your time with this guy it's exhausting and pointless. Take it from one who's tried. You're lucky he didn't write a 4000 word essay at you.