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Excellent, what are the metrics then? What makes a "how to do your nails" tutorial brainless stupidity?

Who decides what is valuable content and what is brainless stupidity?

> I'm not sure what more they could do. They're extremely pushy about it in Windows.

One of the things that pushed me away from Edge. Being pushy is not the same as being persuasive.

Where can you get them for $2.65? I've never even seen one for sale.

Of course it has lots to do with Microsoft's fuckery. I don't think it's a binary choice. Can you answer my question now?

Edit: Sorry, misread the author. Thought you were the same as I asked the original question. Nevermind that.

Is there any point? It seems like you're convinced enough that nothing can ever change your mind. So I'm fine with just disagreeing and leaving it at that.

I'm sorry if I come across as obtuse, but I just need to understand this clearly. Is it your belief that the low usage of Linux has nothing to do with Linux itself?

Just because something is revenue doesn't mean that the purpose is entirely to increase revenue. That is the claim you made. I have presented a counter-example to that, where revenue increase is clearly not the only reason for monetary fines. We have the stated purpose of the legislation -- you can call that PR or whatever you'd like but the stated purpose is not revenue increase -- and you have the fact that these revenues do not benefit any police departments or anyone directly. Instead they make up an absolutely tiny fraction of the total revenues of the state.

Just for fun, I calculated this fraction for a given year. The revenue from all traffic violation fines accounted for a whopping 0.1% of the total state revenue.

So apparently the only purpose of these traffic fines are to raise the state revenue by 0.1%, despite the explicit stated purpose of the legislation and any evidence to the contrary. Does that make sense to you?

Is this one of those things where you just know you're right because you feel it in your gut and nothing can ever convince you otherwise?

I'll have to disagree with that. Linux has significant usability problems, and pretending that it has none is not going to help anyone.

Yes, I really do. Why don't more computers come with Linux pre-installed? If Linux is such a great replacement for Windows, why has it made very little gains in replacing Windows? Is it all somebody else's fault and has nothing to do with the usability of Linux?

Anecdote of my own: In my country, monetary fines in traffic infringements are explicitly not for revenue. They mix into the total state revenue and form a minuscule fraction of it. The police sees none of it.

This distinction is made very clear, for example in a parliament answer by the justice minister: "...it is clear that the purpose of fines is not to increase the revenue of police departments but first and foremost to deter traffic violations and increase traffic safety."

That's quite the brush you're painting with there. Is the primary motivation behind fining the same everywhere?

So why isn't everyone using it then?