I'm not saying you don't have reasons for considering switching back, but your post is incoherent to the point that I haven't the slightest idea what they are.

It's a fucking embarrassment to slashdot that this troll is modded "insightful."

Yeah, the MBA recovery drive is a cute little USB dongle. (It's pretty interesting, the whole thing is maybe twice the length as the USB connector, and is actually thinner --- it just has bare contacts, not the casing that surrounds most such connectors.)

For some reason this topic has built up an epic level of FUD.

Their system was designed to be used in response to DMCA notices. Dropbox would get a takedown notice, they'd flag the file to be removed, and an e-mail would be sent to the uploader of the file informing them of the DMCA notice.

In this case, a dropbox guy used the tool without realising that the last step was automated. There was never any DMCA notice generated, just a DMCA notice notice.

Most amazingly, someone even dies by falling into a mystic portal and stays dead.

As someone living in KY I *already* have to pay sales tax on Amazon purchases -- they have several warehouses here. If you're for the elimination of all sales tax, ok, that's a consistent POV. But I don't think there's any reason to treat internet sales any differently than in-store.

There's a Heinlein book with exactly that ending...