Let's look at this "logic," shall we?
Churches = charities = Communism.
Giving things away for free is not the American way.
Are you actually saying that charities and churches are evil? I hope not.
Blocking advertisments means you are taking a website's content without paying for it. That's stealing!
Wrong. I steal nothing. Stealing implies that what I take is no longer available to the original owner. I think we can all see the fallacy of your statement there.
We don't want to end up becoming a socialist country, do we?
No we don't. Since socialism means the state (or other central authority) controls everything, wouldn't we want more choice--more browsers than just IE?
That's why I'll never put that piece of crap on my computer.
Partial list of IE patches
Google search for Firefox patches
Looks like IE has quite a few more patches than Firefox has ever required.
Always keep in mind that anyone, including Europeans and Chinese, can mess with Firefox' open source code and put all kinds of spyware into it.
Sorry, that won't fly here. Firefox's code has more peer review that IE's ever will.
I'd rather stick with IE, because that's the way to keep the computer secure.
I think this statement speaks for itself.
Learn to think before you post. It actually makes you look a little smarter than you may be.
Are you actually saying that charities and churches are evil? I hope not.This is a completely different matter. Charities care for the poor who cannot pay for the things they need.
Wrong. I steal nothing. Stealing implies that what I take is no longer available to the original owner. I think we can all see the fallacy of your statement there.OK, let's put it this way: You don't steal, but you infringe on other people's copyrights by downloading content from their websites without them getting paid for it, which is conceptually comparable to stealing.
Since socialism means the state (or other central authority) controls everythingIf you cannot make money from your work because others give things away for free, your work gets devaluated. How can you compete with a free product? In the long run, there will be no incentive to be creative or innovative at all, because you cannot earn a living from it. That's typical of socialism. In the end there will be one standard browser (which is free), one standard operating system (which is free), etc. It will be the end of the software market.