Tax payers generally elect representatives who are charged with the
responsiblity of conferring with each other and their staff and making
decisions that way. Individual citizens are rarely consulted about purchases
etc. etc.

I feel badly for the young hungrian man who threw the eggs - that he is such
an estranged individual. Fortunately, no harm was done and his fellow
students and Ballmer just kindly laughed it off. Also fortunately,
governments, universities and other institutions are generally free to
procure the computer systems they want and are not legislated into buying
what they don't want. A few years ago there was a move on to force people to
use Linux .. thankfully it seems to have died out. One of the universities
here in town uses two systems: one Microsoft, one not [and neither Linux].
They built what they wanted and were not forced to use Linux by some
oppressive law.

Saucy

You know Alias, sometimes I'm ashamed to admit I'm an American
considering how dumb many of my fellow countrymen and politicians are.
Take the high price of gasoline. The bimbo in the pants suit wants to
freeze the federal fuel tax. Oh wow, whoopee. She doesn't explain how
then our roads and bridges which benefit from that tax will be kept
up. As far as consumption, most estimates show Americans take up a
whopping 25% of oil resources yet as a population Americans represent
only 3% of the world. Of course the problem in part is morons running
around in SUVs and other gas guzzlers. I'm driving a Prius and getting
over 50 MPG, and loving it. ;-)

The above, folks, is typical of MS fanboys and morons like Bill and
Frank. They can't address content so they *always* resort to juvenile
insults and lies.

Sorry, Bill, but you're joining Frank in the kill file.

Alias

Frank
Very good description of your goodself, when are you going to disassociate
yourself from farm animals.

So you need to dumb it down for yourself?  Just FYI.  Maybe you should print
out the posts and take them to a translator and they can help you understand
the concepts and questions posted here.  Just FYI.

Did I happen to say Just FYI?

So that really was the best you could do, eh? Pretty sad. Perhaps you
need to consider a new hobby, your efforts here are definately not up
to par.

Maybe you should try being a bit more concise (and truthful) instead
of making sweeping statements claiming to know "how the typical
citizen of the world feels" and then later claiming you meant "the
typical Vista user" when it's shown that you were wrong as usual.
Especially when your definition of the "typical Vista user" is a lone
lunatic that is immediately shunned by his peers.

Here's a clue for you...  instead of trying to "dumb down", try
"smarting up". It will help the average user on this group to
comprehend what you're saying and have the added benefit of keeping
you from looking like such a dolt when your BS is exposed.

Oh, and it's OK, you don't have to thank me for the advice... call it
a public service.  :-)