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    If MS was to sell less licenses than there out there, or claims more than actual, I would suspect there would a tax-ivasion liability against them. So if they have claimed sales of 3bil then they brag of 4bil users, someone would notice.

    On the other hand, in terms of anonymity of browsing you’d rather be identified as one of the many with the exact same setup than being unique. TB actually used this to even the mozilla version that was most popular, and even advised not to adjust the default screen size or window size to merge with the “croud”.

    But you have a valid concern, when rags come out and say 97% don’t use linux/bsd when in fact 14% do.

    Using vanilla ff or chrome is the worst possible way to protect your personal information. https://digdeeper.neocities.org/articles/browsers


  • I participated in clinic defense and pro-choice organizing from the late 80s till 09, and the most vivid memory was a case from Loyola Univ. (Baltimore) where a student had gotten pregnant and admins/clergy found out about it. They advised here on getting an abortion quietly or leave the dorms and school as it was a bad example for catholic women/students. The hypocrisy of marketing a myth while clergy having no moral constraints and were more interested in the school’s reputation and fame was enough to tell people what this is all about.

    Why are republicans against choice? It fits the rhetoric of conservativism (although Ge.Bush the father had cleared out that under his administration the then status quo was not to be challenged, clearly for choice) BUT!! A vast majority of democrats are catholics, and some are more traditional jews, and they are all against choice, among other religious groups within the democratic mainstays (Maryland & Massachusets especially). So republicans use this as a wedge to break up democrat’s votes to shift anti-choice voters their way. Otherwise they wouldn’t give a penny on morality, since morality is cheap against the interests they serve.

    Why are democrats pro-choice? Because half of the republican voters are women, and women tend to get sensitive on an issue that absolutely has to do with a productive woman’s choice. Given the population of the US, nearly half the female voters are not of productive age, but together with men they have a say on what productive women should do with their bodies.

    A rich woman can have a baby or can always get a safe abortion no matter how illegal it becomes. A poor woman may not even have enough to travel to the nearest legal state to get one, if she could afford and there was no subsidy.

    Fascists always locate a powerless or less powerful target group to mobilize the powerful against an easy enemy they can win and gain political power and legitimacy. In this case it is economically challenged productive women who are against the rest of society on moral grounds. Neither democrats or republicans will go out of their way not to lose them.

    Representative pro-capitalist anti-communist democracy: It is a dirty job but someone has to do it.