Dr. Dan

Microsoft Did Us a Favor - Andreessen

Candidus: Your ID is very apt, since your philosophy seems to echo that of the sadly naive and ill-fated Candide. Of course people don't cause global warming, because this is the best of all possible worlds, and in this best of all possible worlds only the best of all possible explanations can be true, and that would be that they don't. The painful part is when you apply conformism, or "stupid ideas, those that do not require too much effort at researching and thinking" to global warming. While thousands of scientists all over the world spend their careers researching, publishing, and discussing the data and worrying about how to deal with an obvious and present crisis, you listen to propagandists like Rush and Fox News and decide that they're all idiots, and only the handful of nay-sayers with minimal work in the area (but corporate funding to nay-say) could be right. That's your constitutional right, of course, but for someone like that to rail against conformism - in the same post! - is just too painfully dumb to put up with. Then again, you seem to also believe that anyone who believes that Microsoft is a company with a long history of illegally using monopolistic practices to crush or co-opt companies with superior products is only doing so out of trendy conformism, and that anyone who finds their bloated, buggy software annoying is just deluded. That sort of smug ignorance is a sad but common feature of the true conformists in this society.