I worked at a terrible company last Christmas (from which I have moved on) that gave out, in an inexplicable show of asshole un-clenching, very nice bottles of wine as gifts. So I drank my bottle in the bathroom at the party.

@Die Fledermaus: Seriously at 3:00, I was loling so loud

@Diode: All I will say is that if we are going to use history as an example, Communism never works. The 'less fortunate' are less fortunate for a reason, and as someone who has worked every day of his life since he was 15 years old and grew up with nothing, I have no sympathy for 99.9% of them. Here's to being Grinchy!

@Diode: I get that it's easy to villainize people for being rich and to feel like they should have to pay "their fair share" as the lefties say, but behind every rich person you know is a person who worked until 3 in the morning 6 days a week, who forfeited family, friends, and everything to get where they are. Rich…

@Diode: Yes, privately building a road would cost significantly less. Having the top 1% of earners pay 45% of the government's bills would make me want to donate all my money to charity too.

@ratko: All of your troll are belong to #trollpatrol

@ratko: Don't worry, none of us RTFA either.

He probably is tired of vomiting for the first 7 days after signing a billion dollar check made payable to the US government.

@Ccomfort: You mean like Avast!? AVG? Panda? Clamwin? Winamp? iTunes? Chrome? Firefox? Ubuntu? Aviary? or any of the other hundreds of thousands of free pieces of software available?

@Ccomfort: Like they say, the only bad publicity is no publicity. When faced with the choice of zero purchases or 1 million illegal downloads, devs would choose the latter every time.

@minibeardeath: Great comment and great info. Thank you.

@s8ist: This is half OS, half proof that you don't need anything local for longer than the time you have in between internet connections. Google is clearly 100% committed to the cloud.

@chewy106: [gigaom.com]

@neMouse: It's my understanding that they specifically said BofA

@chewy106: Publishing stolen material isn't illegal. Read: watergate.

@mtf612: Except wikileaks didn't break any laws.

@Arctic Fox: I'm so sorry that I've offended you, oh wise one. Please give me your email so I can send you this free copy of Avast Pro version that I downloaded as consolation for my insufferable ignorance.

@GranMastaB614: I use MSE

@Ccomfort: I'm saying if those people couldn't pirate the software, they wouldn't use the software. Period

774,651 people downloaded the pirated copy.