Because my desktop isn't a fucking iPhone. It's a business tool that I sit in front of 8.5 hours a day. My iPhone usually sit's in my pocket, only to come out when I'm in the bathroom or otherwise not in front of a computer and I want to entertain myself for a while. Fundamentally, tablets and smart phones are to consume information. Desktops and laptops are to produce information. It makes sense that they have a fundamentally different interface.

Except there is no plan 1a. being thrown about by anyone (maybe a small and silent minority). As an outsider watching the news and checking a few websites, I see option 1 as the only options from the greenies. I've came to much the same conclusion as jmorris42.

And by pop, I mean arrest.

Umm, sorry, if my neighborhood has had a rash of burglaries and I saw someone walking around late at night/early morning that isn't from the neighborhood, I'd call the cops. Even if it wasn't raining...and regardless of skin color. Yay, now the cops can stop, question and release if the person actually has business there, or maybe perhaps pop the guy that's been breaking into homes.

*sigh* It's not a "Shoot First" law and the "Stand Your Ground" law, as the facts are known, don't apply. First, SF vs SYG. Stand your ground means you have no duty to run away from an attacker. Suppose a knife wielding maniac is advancing on you...you can shoot him, you don't have to run away (some states require that you attempt to run away before shooting). Or in a home invasion, you can shoot the guy when he breaks through the door, instead of having to retreat to the furthest bedroom (this is also required in some states). There is no such thing as a shoot first law...you make it sound as if you can just pop anyone you don't like. In this case, as far as we know, Zimmerman was already being attacked and taken to the ground after turning to go back to his vehicle. Most of the states in this country would allow you to use deadly force to protect yourself if someone is on top of you and bashing your head into the ground. It has nothing to do with the stand your ground laws and everything to do with self defense.

We have a 2011 Ford Explorer with Sync and Nav. It has a BSOD (Black Screen of Death). It also perform "System Maintenance", which is just a reboot, mid drive. The issue isn't necessarily the MS Software, but the flash based user interface designed by a third part. It was a giant piece of shit. Also, it's not 30k USB sticks, it's 300,000 USB sticks, plus SD cards for anyone with Nav.

You know they've visited when you find a fat job offer on your desk. And you'd be smart to take it. Myself, I was a young dissident, prepared to set fire to the world just to watch it burn. But then, a friend of my father's offered me a job with possibility for advancement. I quickly abandoned my silly ideas of changing the world, bring justice to the people. Shouting the truth from the tops of buildings is for chumps.

... and then spend hours waiting for Windows Update to update ... reboot ... update ... reboot ... while hoping that there isn't some horrible worm that will take over your machine while your waiting to get the critical patch that was published 20 "Patch Tuesdays" after your zip archive.

I did this once (only I sent it via snail mail packet) but then the bank happily sent me the fully filled out application for my signature ... in a pdf ... via email.

I was horrified. My name, my wife's name, our address (past and present), ssn, all my account balances and numbers for every financial thing I own -- every single piece of the most sensitive personal information I have in one convenient package in an unencrypted email.

I sent a very terse message conveying how upset I was that they did this but they literally just said, "We've never had a problem doing it this way."

Needless to say I stopped doing business with that mortgage company.

I think it is sad but without a law I don't see financial institutions changing. Even then just look at how they interpreted the "multi-factor authentication" law ... site key, really?

Actually it's confusing the issue. Taxes are historically low, and the amount of wealth that is owned by the richest classes far far outstrips what they pay in taxes.

I am the ownership class.

People think that a troll on Slashdot can't own a yacht and several houses. Why should I care if anyone believes me when I have all this money?

I'm not fucked no matter what happens. I know what's going on because my friends and I are the people who make it happen. Smoke-filled rooms? No, just an assuming little office building which you'd never look at twice. But the money we funnel into our bank accounts is quite sufficient anyways. Thanks, taxpayer. I'm just the middleman.

You're useful. You're the classroom example. CLASS! This is a racist. Study carefully as he tries to tell us that black people enjoyed slavery.

I don't fucking care if some old people that I don't know live in stinking poverty. At least I will be able to get some cheap labor, even if it's creaky, when I'm spending my fortune.

I've lined my nest, now fuck the rest.

I give up trying to save the world. My fellow Americans obviously don't want what's due them, and they're too stupid to deserve it. I'm just going to join the dark side, vote for Rick Perry, and not bother to think of them any more.

Ron Paul is an old retard who was too stupid to practice medicine. He doesn't even have the sense to buy decent shoes.

But seriously, I just got told by another libertaritard that Ron Paul was NOT a Republican. Now you say he is. How about you eat a cock, and come back to me when you figure out what kind of asshole Ron Paul is? Fuck, no wonder that guy doesn't win shit except for his shitty seat in ignorant-as-fuck Texas.