There is one sure way to reduce negative reviews: Make sure your product and/or service is good quality.
One aspect that you are missing:
Let's say that I am a plumber. Let's say that I work in a very competitive market. Let's say that some of my competitors are less than ethical. Let's say that one of my competitors hires an astroturfing firm. Let's say that the astroturfing firm has a hundred people give my company negative reviews and my competitor good reviews.
No. Quality work will reduce "real" negative reviews but will have zero effect on fake negative reviews... and of course, the person seeing the reviews has no way of telling which are real and which are fake.:(
Hm. None of the addresses that belong to me or anyone that I correspond with is in that list. If it was from a breach at Google, then they were stopped before they were able to access the entire list that Google has. My main is account has been around since gmail existed and it is not compromised.
Did you use shared passwords with ANY other site? That is the only method I can think of for them to have a list like this. I hope you were able to regain exclusive control over your account before anything bad happened.
but I'd say that if even 10% of the people designing and maintaining these systems had enough knowledge to pass Security+, we'd be in a lot better shape.
I am sure all of them could pass it if they studied for it. That is why all certifications are useless. With enough studying, almost anyone can pass it without understanding the material, just regurgitating facts.
If you could force someone to take and pass such a test without studying, THEN your statement would be useful.
Fuck "enterprise IT" and the bullshit anti-update mentality. If you can't update, you're doing it wrong.
Fuck software "engineering" and the bullshit always-update mentality. Build shit that works so that it can be used 20 years later without issues. If I have to update, YOU are doing it wrong.
I say this as someone who has written software. Oddly enough, it was in C, has never had any exploits, has not needed updates, and has been running in a hostile environment since 1999, and is still just as reliable now as it was then (never needs to be restarted/rebooted, no memory leaks, etc). And it is not Hello World.
because we all know anecdotal local data completely disproves long term multidecade global averages and trends.
More anecdotal data, but data that "proves" the reverse:
When I was a child, there used to be LOTS of snow pretty much all winter long. As an adult, there is not so much snow and it is not all winter long anymore.
Anecdotal data is anecdotal data. It can be useful over long enough timelines or across wide enough areas but it is never proof.
I think $200k top salary including bonuses far exceeds what many CEO's need for living a basic high quality life. Any more than that would just be wasted on blow and hookers.
Screw you. I have pulled down $200k in a year and it is not all THAT much.CEO pay may be exorbitantly high at the moment but it is not where the lion's share of wealth is going. The truly wealthy are throwing the moderately wealthy under the bus of anger from the masses.
Beside all of that, how is the CEO of an international corporation moving billions to trillions of dollars around in the same league as the CEO of some regional corp that moves tens to hundreds of millions of dollars around?
Your idea is dumb and unworkable. How about campaigning for more fair pay for the line workers?
I think regulating Google and Netflix is a really bad idea but I think there's a defensible motive in trying to promote Canadian content and defend Canadian content providers.
I'm not sure Americans really understand what it's like for smaller countries who lack the population or money to compete with American media productions. People get so much culture from television that it's hard to maintain a national identity when there's a US megaphone next door that dominates mass media.
Why does any of this matter? If your "national identity" is not strong enough to withstand the culture of another area, then your "national identity" was not unique or strong enough to justify its own existence.
I live in a foreign country and yet my "culture" is my own. There are very few cultural things here that are better than from my home country. The ones that are better, I integrate. The ones that are not, are ignored.
For example, one of the cultural things here that are superior to EVERYWHERE else I have ever been is the bathroom/restroom/toilet area. Everything in the bathroom is ceramic and tile. They have a bidet and toilet paper. When it is time to clean the bathroom, you merely spray water everywhere... and it all drains nice and neat into a drain. So very clean. So very spacious. So very awesome. Do I feel defensive that my own country does not have the same setup and feel the need to defend my own country? Hell no! When I come home, I am getting my bathroom remodeled to emulate the bathrooms here. So very practical.
National Identity? Screw that. Take what works best and run with it.
. The problem with Netflix is that they are US based.
Say what? Why would you care about where they are based? I do not care. I have purchased entertainment from Eastern European countries and Northern European countries and I felt no different than paying for my son's Netflix account. Whoever earns my money will get it. I do not care where they are.
Netflix, for example, is available here in Argentina. But they don't have any local servers. They just stream straight from the US. The service sucks (international bandwidth is not the same as national.
I am sure if it were affecting their bottom line and your government did not intervene, they would be more than happy to install local servers. Again, what does it matter if they are US based or running out of Viet Nam?
Netflix collects money from Argentinians and pays zero taxes in Argentina. They also don't invest here.
Why is this a problem? If it is a problem for you then do not give them your money. Stop trying to decide what is right for everyone else. Netflix does not invest in Kuwait, Ukraine, South Korea, or Ireland. What is the problem?
I don't like paying taxes either, but I would like if there was an industry of things, not just "arrogance" like "you don't have a right to collect taxes from me, I don't pay taxes in your country. Yes, i sell millions of my product there but i owe you nothing. And you better have a good infrastructure for me to be able to sell"
Erm, um... they already paid for their infrastructure. YOU are the one who wants to watch what they have. That means that YOU have to pay for YOUR infrastructure to connect to THEIR infrastructure. WTF? You think Netflix should subsidize YOUR internet connection?
She is simply so out of his league in terms of looks
I have found that a disturbingly large number of lesbians are drop-dead gorgeous. Upon speaking with them (which is very hard to do as they avoid men like the plague) I have found that their hatred of men is because everyone wants to fuck a gorgeous girl but nobody sees the person inside.
I have dated two girls who were "way out of my league" according to your world view. Some gorgeous girls are real people too. Deal with them that way and you may get to see it. Treat them like sex goddesses and they will rarely speak more than a word or two with you.
Of course, many gorgeous women are just stuck up and use their looks to their advantage. They are truly ugly inside. You have to be real yourself before you can clearly see these things others.
What was the hardest bit of scientific inaccuracy to fight, because the writers deemed it necessary to keep it "wrong"?
Ooooo. That is a VERY good question. I am glad that you asked it. I am eager to see the response to it. Hopefully the answer is a boring, "nothing. reality is more interesting and strange than fiction", but I doubt it. Heh.
Hm. I stopped watching in Season 3 or 4. I do not recall. I really enjoyed the first few seasons but then it became too much about relationships. I guess they were trying to draw in females but it turned me off entirely. But yeah, it was quite good.
Google recently announced Chrome will be gradually phasing out support for certificates using SHA-1 encryption.
SHA-1 is a hashing Algorithm, not an Encryption Algorithm. Really people. How do you expect anyone to become educated if everything they see is inaccurate to begin with?
The short story is that hashing is to prove information has not been altered. Encryption is to keep information secret. Both technologies are used to ensure a secure information exchange experience.
FWIW, the US DoL floated an RFC on 'protecting' retirement accounts by replacing them with bonds a few years ago. Nobody should be undiversified in their retirement savings jurisdictions.
Back in the very early 80s, the money in Social Security accounts was replaced with bonds. Look how well THAT is turning out. A cash positive program so deeply in the red that I will never see a penny of it.:(
But why can the two protocols not run on top of the same Layer 2 infrastructure?
One protocol is layer 3. The other protocol attempts to usurp layer 3 into its layer 5+ world. Why would anyone agree to such a straitjacket? I dunno. Removing addressing options seems like a pure dick control move. But whatever. Most people do not know enough about anything to even care.
Really? You are going to waste my time asking that question? If I can name even one, will you accept that my point is valid? Probably not but here are two that were detailed in their trial: Word Perfect and Netscape Navigator.
They also killed the Amiga and they utterly destroyed Apple. Apple only exists today because Bill Gates through Microsoft decided to purchase some Apple stock so that Microsoft could claim that they had competition.
But facts do not matter here. All of these things are well known facts and the denial of Microsoft's, Bill Gates', and Steve Ballmer's evilness can only be because someone is either a fanboi or a paid shill.
You're right! There should be no CEO. The company doesn't need a chief executive.,,,
Over the years, I have read many of your comments and assumed that you were an intelligent and relatively emotionally balanced person. Your reply is leaving me in doubt about that now.
Why would you assume my question meant that there should be no CEO at all? Such hyperbole should be beneath you. My original question to you asked you how many tickets needed to be sold to pay executive salary. The question was meant to engender thought about how much exactly a CEO is being paid. In this example:
So he was paid about 7 million in cash and stands to earn another 7 million if he meets targets. Assuming $500 a ticket, that is 14,000 tickets that must be sold in order to pay the cash he has already received.
Let's look at it in comparison to average employee salary. Let's assume the median wage is $50k a year for all non-executive employees. I know that is high, but it makes it easier to analyze take home pay. That comes out to 140 employees yearly pay before taxes that he has received.
That seems high but compared to say a star basketball or football player, it is not so bad; however, that comparison can not truly be useful.
I guess the real question should be: Why is an enterprise that is losing 440 million dollars every 3 months paying the top person 7 million dollars compensation? It appears to be unsustainable. There is SEVERE downward pressure on all salaries for the line employees so why is there so much upward pressure for the executives? I do not see the value that they are adding.
Surely, the job of CEO of United is hard and very few people can do it, but it still seems like he is being compensated more than he is worth.
Plus it brings out all the caffeine so you'll feel like you've just taken a cocaine suppository, which are also kind of bitter, by the way, which is why you should not eat them.
Erm, I do not think suppository means what you think it means... and I have never heard of cocaine being used in that way.:)
Your suggestion has some implicit assumptions which I don't think are valid in this case. At the level of Apple, Google, et al., they don't hire H1-Bs to suppress wages. At Google, at least, I know that salary is a non-issue in the hiring process. Salary requirements aren't even considered until after the hire/no-hire decision is made, and even then they have little impact on the offer... Google offers what it considers reasonable based on your experience, etc. And, actually, Google offers such good money that it's uncommon for candidates who receive offers to turn them down. So Google is paying enough to attract American talent.
Erm, *cough*, so uhh... why is Google part of this case? Clearly salaries ARE important. I understand that you also said, "as part of the hiring process", but to me, that merely implies they will not even hire you if you are not competent. Seriously, how do they keep wages suppressed if someone just starting out can make huge amounts of money? Lower their wages later? No. salaries are important even in the hiring process.
Right now people are being beheaded in the middle east for the crime of minding their own business while having the wrong religion. That's Evil.
No doubt. Your other example is also a great example of evil... but that does not negate other evils in this world. Sure, being raped is not as evil as being murdered, but both are definitely evil. Sure, having your livelihood destroyed through illegal means is not as bad as being raped... but it is still evil.
I could go on and on, but what is the point? You already know about all of the evil things documented publicly in the Microsoft trial so many years ago and yet you refuse to acknowledge that they are doing evil things. Go ahead and claim that all of that is in the past. It does not matter as they are still doing the exact same things, just slightly differently so they are not caught out.
I've never understood the burning MS hatred on Slashdot. Yes, MS had a lot of second-rate products, but so do most companies in the world!
You miss the forest for the trees. How did those second rate products come to dominate the computing landscape? Answer that, and you will be one step closer to the evil and why MS is hated.
There are still plenty of other reasons to hate them and call them evil. It has to do with actions, not products.
I am concerned about your "supposed" lack of knowledge on this subject. You have been here for at least a decade now. You have surely seen some of the detailed listings of evil actions and explanations of the hatred. It kind of makes me wonder about your motivations.
So much so that I wonder if the story of LotR is not so much that the winners wanted segregation (of hobbits, elves and other races) where the losers were fighting for unity and equality and were just represented in an evil way by the winners.
Good and evil can be discerned by their actions.
Saruman had his orcs take Meriadoc and Pippin against their will to Orthanc.
Sauron had the Nazgul attacking, killing, and otherwise causing mayhem in his name trying to retrieve his ring from Bilbo/Frodo.
Gandalf and Elrond asked for volunteers to go on a dangerous journey to destroy the One Ring.
I think the determination of good and evil is very clear. If you are forcing your will upon others, you are likely to be evil. If you are not forcing your will upon others, you are likely to be good. Of course, those two rules are generalizations: You would be forcing your will against someone if you are trying to stop them from murdering someone... but really, this is just a higher level rule: You can enforce your will upon someone to stop them from enforcing their will upon someone else.
I am unsure where you received the segregation idea from: The various races seemed to be welcome amongst the other races as long as they were peaceful. Yes, the wood elves were very reclusive, so much so that they imprisoned the dwarves, but even this is not so simple: There was a long history of contentious behavior. Dwarves were welcomed in Rivendell. Humans were welcomed in Bree. Dwarves and Elves were welcome in Minis Tirith (other than that Denethor had been manipulated by Sauron).
The unity and equality of which you speak did not seem so unified and equal to me. The most powerful creatures were given authority and whips to enforce discipline amongst the weaker creatures. Furthermore, the situation at Cirith Ungol (near Shelob's lair) amongst the various Orcs proved that the only reason there appeared to be any unity is because of the power of Sauron and the only purpose of that unity was to dominate Middle Earth.
There's a lot of interesting info in that link. For instance, WTF is going on in Colorado Springs? It's one of the safest cities for murder, however it's one of the most dangerous cities for rape.
Well, there are something like 7 military bases there plus the Air Force Academy. Most cities that have them will have only one, possibly two. Reporting rape to the military is easier and more likely to have action taken. Is this the only reason for the higher rape numbers? I have no idea. I am just offering a potential explanation. Research and verify for yourself if you want to be certain of cause and effect.
I live there and the general population seems to be more or less normal. The military bases are the one oddity. Hm. There are a few extra colleges there too. I could see it more as a bunch of young dumb folks outside of their normal environment acting out on impulses.
Hm. Anyways, good luck on figuring it out. My daughter had zero problems growing up there.
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There is one sure way to reduce negative reviews: Make sure your product and/or service is good quality.
One aspect that you are missing:
Let's say that I am a plumber. Let's say that I work in a very competitive market. Let's say that some of my competitors are less than ethical. Let's say that one of my competitors hires an astroturfing firm. Let's say that the astroturfing firm has a hundred people give my company negative reviews and my competitor good reviews.
No. Quality work will reduce "real" negative reviews but will have zero effect on fake negative reviews... and of course, the person seeing the reviews has no way of telling which are real and which are fake. :(
Hm. None of the addresses that belong to me or anyone that I correspond with is in that list. If it was from a breach at Google, then they were stopped before they were able to access the entire list that Google has. My main is account has been around since gmail existed and it is not compromised.
Did you use shared passwords with ANY other site? That is the only method I can think of for them to have a list like this. I hope you were able to regain exclusive control over your account before anything bad happened.
but I'd say that if even 10% of the people designing and maintaining these systems had enough knowledge to pass Security+, we'd be in a lot better shape.
I am sure all of them could pass it if they studied for it. That is why all certifications are useless. With enough studying, almost anyone can pass it without understanding the material, just regurgitating facts.
If you could force someone to take and pass such a test without studying, THEN your statement would be useful.
Fuck "enterprise IT" and the bullshit anti-update mentality. If you can't update, you're doing it wrong.
Fuck software "engineering" and the bullshit always-update mentality. Build shit that works so that it can be used 20 years later without issues. If I have to update, YOU are doing it wrong.
I say this as someone who has written software. Oddly enough, it was in C, has never had any exploits, has not needed updates, and has been running in a hostile environment since 1999, and is still just as reliable now as it was then (never needs to be restarted/rebooted, no memory leaks, etc). And it is not Hello World.
This is why coffee is good for your health. It makes me get up and walk twice an hour. Once to get it, and once to put it back.
Hopefully not in the same container. :P
because we all know anecdotal local data completely disproves long term multidecade global averages and trends.
More anecdotal data, but data that "proves" the reverse:
When I was a child, there used to be LOTS of snow pretty much all winter long. As an adult, there is not so much snow and it is not all winter long anymore.
Anecdotal data is anecdotal data. It can be useful over long enough timelines or across wide enough areas but it is never proof.
I think $200k top salary including bonuses far exceeds what many CEO's need for living a basic high quality life. Any more than that would just be wasted on blow and hookers.
Screw you. I have pulled down $200k in a year and it is not all THAT much.CEO pay may be exorbitantly high at the moment but it is not where the lion's share of wealth is going. The truly wealthy are throwing the moderately wealthy under the bus of anger from the masses.
Beside all of that, how is the CEO of an international corporation moving billions to trillions of dollars around in the same league as the CEO of some regional corp that moves tens to hundreds of millions of dollars around?
Your idea is dumb and unworkable. How about campaigning for more fair pay for the line workers?
I think regulating Google and Netflix is a really bad idea but I think there's a defensible motive in trying to promote Canadian content and defend Canadian content providers.
I'm not sure Americans really understand what it's like for smaller countries who lack the population or money to compete with American media productions. People get so much culture from television that it's hard to maintain a national identity when there's a US megaphone next door that dominates mass media.
Why does any of this matter? If your "national identity" is not strong enough to withstand the culture of another area, then your "national identity" was not unique or strong enough to justify its own existence.
I live in a foreign country and yet my "culture" is my own. There are very few cultural things here that are better than from my home country. The ones that are better, I integrate. The ones that are not, are ignored.
For example, one of the cultural things here that are superior to EVERYWHERE else I have ever been is the bathroom/restroom/toilet area. Everything in the bathroom is ceramic and tile. They have a bidet and toilet paper. When it is time to clean the bathroom, you merely spray water everywhere... and it all drains nice and neat into a drain. So very clean. So very spacious. So very awesome. Do I feel defensive that my own country does not have the same setup and feel the need to defend my own country? Hell no! When I come home, I am getting my bathroom remodeled to emulate the bathrooms here. So very practical.
National Identity? Screw that. Take what works best and run with it.
. The problem with Netflix is that they are US based.
Say what? Why would you care about where they are based? I do not care. I have purchased entertainment from Eastern European countries and Northern European countries and I felt no different than paying for my son's Netflix account. Whoever earns my money will get it. I do not care where they are.
Netflix, for example, is available here in Argentina. But they don't have any local servers. They just stream straight from the US. The service sucks (international bandwidth is not the same as national.
I am sure if it were affecting their bottom line and your government did not intervene, they would be more than happy to install local servers. Again, what does it matter if they are US based or running out of Viet Nam?
Netflix collects money from Argentinians and pays zero taxes in Argentina. They also don't invest here.
Why is this a problem? If it is a problem for you then do not give them your money. Stop trying to decide what is right for everyone else. Netflix does not invest in Kuwait, Ukraine, South Korea, or Ireland. What is the problem?
I don't like paying taxes either, but I would like if there was an industry of things, not just "arrogance" like "you don't have a right to collect taxes from me, I don't pay taxes in your country. Yes, i sell millions of my product there but i owe you nothing. And you better have a good infrastructure for me to be able to sell"
Erm, um... they already paid for their infrastructure. YOU are the one who wants to watch what they have. That means that YOU have to pay for YOUR infrastructure to connect to THEIR infrastructure. WTF? You think Netflix should subsidize YOUR internet connection?
She is simply so out of his league in terms of looks
I have found that a disturbingly large number of lesbians are drop-dead gorgeous. Upon speaking with them (which is very hard to do as they avoid men like the plague) I have found that their hatred of men is because everyone wants to fuck a gorgeous girl but nobody sees the person inside.
I have dated two girls who were "way out of my league" according to your world view. Some gorgeous girls are real people too. Deal with them that way and you may get to see it. Treat them like sex goddesses and they will rarely speak more than a word or two with you.
Of course, many gorgeous women are just stuck up and use their looks to their advantage. They are truly ugly inside. You have to be real yourself before you can clearly see these things others.
What was the hardest bit of scientific inaccuracy to fight, because the writers deemed it necessary to keep it "wrong"?
Ooooo. That is a VERY good question. I am glad that you asked it. I am eager to see the response to it. Hopefully the answer is a boring, "nothing. reality is more interesting and strange than fiction", but I doubt it. Heh.
Hm. I stopped watching in Season 3 or 4. I do not recall. I really enjoyed the first few seasons but then it became too much about relationships. I guess they were trying to draw in females but it turned me off entirely. But yeah, it was quite good.
Google recently announced Chrome will be gradually phasing out support for certificates using SHA-1 encryption.
SHA-1 is a hashing Algorithm, not an Encryption Algorithm. Really people. How do you expect anyone to become educated if everything they see is inaccurate to begin with?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...
The short story is that hashing is to prove information has not been altered. Encryption is to keep information secret. Both technologies are used to ensure a secure information exchange experience.
FWIW, the US DoL floated an RFC on 'protecting' retirement accounts by replacing them with bonds a few years ago. Nobody should be undiversified in their retirement savings jurisdictions.
Back in the very early 80s, the money in Social Security accounts was replaced with bonds. Look how well THAT is turning out. A cash positive program so deeply in the red that I will never see a penny of it. :(
But why can the two protocols not run on top of the same Layer 2 infrastructure?
One protocol is layer 3. The other protocol attempts to usurp layer 3 into its layer 5+ world. Why would anyone agree to such a straitjacket? I dunno. Removing addressing options seems like a pure dick control move. But whatever. Most people do not know enough about anything to even care.
Is it April first? Theo will NEVER allow that monstrosity in. ROFLMAO
Really? You are going to waste my time asking that question? If I can name even one, will you accept that my point is valid? Probably not but here are two that were detailed in their trial: Word Perfect and Netscape Navigator.
They also killed the Amiga and they utterly destroyed Apple. Apple only exists today because Bill Gates through Microsoft decided to purchase some Apple stock so that Microsoft could claim that they had competition.
But facts do not matter here. All of these things are well known facts and the denial of Microsoft's, Bill Gates', and Steve Ballmer's evilness can only be because someone is either a fanboi or a paid shill.
Good luck on trying to rewrite history.
You're right! There should be no CEO. The company doesn't need a chief executive. ,,,
Over the years, I have read many of your comments and assumed that you were an intelligent and relatively emotionally balanced person. Your reply is leaving me in doubt about that now.
Why would you assume my question meant that there should be no CEO at all? Such hyperbole should be beneath you. My original question to you asked you how many tickets needed to be sold to pay executive salary. The question was meant to engender thought about how much exactly a CEO is being paid. In this example:
http://news.yahoo.com/united-a...
So he was paid about 7 million in cash and stands to earn another 7 million if he meets targets. Assuming $500 a ticket, that is 14,000 tickets that must be sold in order to pay the cash he has already received.
Let's look at it in comparison to average employee salary. Let's assume the median wage is $50k a year for all non-executive employees. I know that is high, but it makes it easier to analyze take home pay. That comes out to 140 employees yearly pay before taxes that he has received.
That seems high but compared to say a star basketball or football player, it is not so bad; however, that comparison can not truly be useful.
I guess the real question should be: Why is an enterprise that is losing 440 million dollars every 3 months paying the top person 7 million dollars compensation? It appears to be unsustainable. There is SEVERE downward pressure on all salaries for the line employees so why is there so much upward pressure for the executives? I do not see the value that they are adding.
Surely, the job of CEO of United is hard and very few people can do it, but it still seems like he is being compensated more than he is worth.
Plus it brings out all the caffeine so you'll feel like you've just taken a cocaine suppository, which are also kind of bitter, by the way, which is why you should not eat them.
Erm, I do not think suppository means what you think it means... and I have never heard of cocaine being used in that way. :)
Your suggestion has some implicit assumptions which I don't think are valid in this case. At the level of Apple, Google, et al., they don't hire H1-Bs to suppress wages. At Google, at least, I know that salary is a non-issue in the hiring process. Salary requirements aren't even considered until after the hire/no-hire decision is made, and even then they have little impact on the offer... Google offers what it considers reasonable based on your experience, etc. And, actually, Google offers such good money that it's uncommon for candidates who receive offers to turn them down. So Google is paying enough to attract American talent.
Erm, *cough*, so uhh... why is Google part of this case? Clearly salaries ARE important. I understand that you also said, "as part of the hiring process", but to me, that merely implies they will not even hire you if you are not competent. Seriously, how do they keep wages suppressed if someone just starting out can make huge amounts of money? Lower their wages later? No. salaries are important even in the hiring process.
Right now people are being beheaded in the middle east for the crime of minding their own business while having the wrong religion. That's Evil.
No doubt. Your other example is also a great example of evil... but that does not negate other evils in this world. Sure, being raped is not as evil as being murdered, but both are definitely evil. Sure, having your livelihood destroyed through illegal means is not as bad as being raped... but it is still evil.
I could go on and on, but what is the point? You already know about all of the evil things documented publicly in the Microsoft trial so many years ago and yet you refuse to acknowledge that they are doing evil things. Go ahead and claim that all of that is in the past. It does not matter as they are still doing the exact same things, just slightly differently so they are not caught out.
I've never understood the burning MS hatred on Slashdot. Yes, MS had a lot of second-rate products, but so do most companies in the world!
You miss the forest for the trees. How did those second rate products come to dominate the computing landscape? Answer that, and you will be one step closer to the evil and why MS is hated.
There are still plenty of other reasons to hate them and call them evil. It has to do with actions, not products.
I am concerned about your "supposed" lack of knowledge on this subject. You have been here for at least a decade now. You have surely seen some of the detailed listings of evil actions and explanations of the hatred. It kind of makes me wonder about your motivations.
So much so that I wonder if the story of LotR is not so much that the winners wanted segregation (of hobbits, elves and other races) where the losers were fighting for unity and equality and were just represented in an evil way by the winners.
Good and evil can be discerned by their actions.
Saruman had his orcs take Meriadoc and Pippin against their will to Orthanc.
Sauron had the Nazgul attacking, killing, and otherwise causing mayhem in his name trying to retrieve his ring from Bilbo/Frodo.
Gandalf and Elrond asked for volunteers to go on a dangerous journey to destroy the One Ring.
I think the determination of good and evil is very clear. If you are forcing your will upon others, you are likely to be evil. If you are not forcing your will upon others, you are likely to be good. Of course, those two rules are generalizations: You would be forcing your will against someone if you are trying to stop them from murdering someone... but really, this is just a higher level rule: You can enforce your will upon someone to stop them from enforcing their will upon someone else.
I am unsure where you received the segregation idea from: The various races seemed to be welcome amongst the other races as long as they were peaceful. Yes, the wood elves were very reclusive, so much so that they imprisoned the dwarves, but even this is not so simple: There was a long history of contentious behavior. Dwarves were welcomed in Rivendell. Humans were welcomed in Bree. Dwarves and Elves were welcome in Minis Tirith (other than that Denethor had been manipulated by Sauron).
The unity and equality of which you speak did not seem so unified and equal to me. The most powerful creatures were given authority and whips to enforce discipline amongst the weaker creatures. Furthermore, the situation at Cirith Ungol (near Shelob's lair) amongst the various Orcs proved that the only reason there appeared to be any unity is because of the power of Sauron and the only purpose of that unity was to dominate Middle Earth.
How many tickets must be sold to satisfy the CEO's paycheck alone? Much less the other executives...
There's a lot of interesting info in that link. For instance, WTF is going on in Colorado Springs? It's one of the safest cities for murder, however it's one of the most dangerous cities for rape.
Well, there are something like 7 military bases there plus the Air Force Academy. Most cities that have them will have only one, possibly two. Reporting rape to the military is easier and more likely to have action taken. Is this the only reason for the higher rape numbers? I have no idea. I am just offering a potential explanation. Research and verify for yourself if you want to be certain of cause and effect.
I live there and the general population seems to be more or less normal. The military bases are the one oddity. Hm. There are a few extra colleges there too. I could see it more as a bunch of young dumb folks outside of their normal environment acting out on impulses.
Hm. Anyways, good luck on figuring it out. My daughter had zero problems growing up there.