Are you saying the reason Stallman is wrong is because he doesn't agree with your thoughts on Jobs? I'm not quite clear.

I think a time traveler from the future buried them there in order that folks in his time could retrieve them. OMG that must be us! So... someone here has time travel. And we just 'found' those neutrinos going faster than light. So, what do we need to do with the bugs to save ourselves?

Google do most of their stuff for free to the end user. In that scenario you are the product - the (free) source of data for Google's various enterprises - remember GOOG411? Microsoft may store some of your information but their business model isn't 99% dependent on having or using it, unlike Google.

I can't drive. I live in NYC and never leave so I don't need a car or to be able to drive. It is said that driving a car in NYC is a disadvantage to getting about and I can understand why, but only from a non-driver's point of view.

I don't drive so I can't answer this but do drivers really forget which side of the car the gas tank is on that they need to check the arrow each time?

The USB may know which way is up however no one told my laptop - a Sony Vaio. The sockets are upside down and therefore the USB goes in logo down. I mark the USB with whiteout to help me out.

George Bush was a bank?

Don't forget your PIN number when you use an ATM machine.

I'm not sure what exactly is going on but it just works (as they say)

No I never saw the movie.

No my dyslexic friend... zip, not zit!

Windex is slippier than water and as long as the fabric isn't discolored by the blue in Windex it's better than graphite which is a pig to get out of clothes and vaseline which is oil-based. You won't notice anything with just a rag soaked in Windex but when a hard surface such as a zipper is used there is a…

We need an app that recognizes a politician's number and forwards it to another politician's number on the list. They can call each other incestuously forever then. I'd use my cell minutes for that!

There's a gap in the market here. I'm sure the politicians originating phone numbers are public knowledge. Some enterprising person should collate these numbers, bundle them into an app which automatically drops the call if called. Kind of like Mr. Number but sticking the knife into politicos.

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They're politicians. If enough people threaten to vote for the guy who says no to the bill they'll change their tune. It's very hard to voluntarily get off the gravy train once you're on it.

This can go on forever which is why I cut short my reply to witeowl previously.

Ok how about this? I woke up one morning when I was 21 and the first thought on my mind was the Japanese torturing of WW2 prisoners by sticking bamboo splinters down fingernails. (Don't ask where that thought came from). When I got to school my friend Marianne had fainted and was being carried to the First Aid room.…

I'm sorry :) I was going to write more then I realized neither of us would be prepared to change our viewpoint so I stopped. In brief - do you think I'm dumb enough not to have considered all your points myself over the preceding 20 years?

I considered that and dismissed it.