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Pretty much everyone I know has a pirated copy unless it's in an enterprise setting or pre-installed with the hardware.

Been the case since Windows 98, might be longer too.

No ones asking you to stick some shiny thing up your ass and walk around to see how it fits. If you don't like these services don't use them, for most of us the convinience of an Internet connected device that let's you stream content published to the Internet is a value.

That could be useful... Find more X person/stuff....

Or, you say "i am the google web crawler", which they let past the paywall so it can be added to google.

If I'm not wrong, Google has a set range of IP addresses for their crawlers, so not all sites will let you through just because your UA claims to be Googlebot

There are people who are in favor of capital punishment. Not all may be in favor of slow, drawn out executions. Focusing on the execution being performed poorly convinces them.

Think different, but stay the same, In Apple's world, that's the game. A touch of irony, don't you think? In a sea of similar, we all sink.

Fast, quiet, big touch pad. What'd fascinating or out of the world here? These are just kind of things most people want, not everyone wants to manually update their kernel or whatever.

This thread should be renamed to 101 reasons why business give Windows or Macs to their employees.

It may be reasonable to block all logins for a time if they detect an attack like this

That would be a P1 incident and probably violate SLAs depending on the duration.

You're buying... A temporary permission to access certain content.

Or maybe they're happy living where they've lived for so long, in a big comfortable property, rather than uproot everything they've known to live close to you with no guarantee that you'll visit regularly and not move again for another job.

I've installed Libreoffice but Linux has spoilt me as Windows needs a damn reboot to use it properly.

You're either exaggerating or it's a problem with LibreOffice.