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You wouldn't believe it, but I've never installed an anti-virus program in my Macs – laptop or desktop. Ever. I'm sure there are many Mac users out there like me. Never had a virus or worm or bot infect or cripple my system. Only the odd irritating ad malware that was easily removed by deleting...

When you volunteer for a job, you do it for no pay. Does the Cow even know the meaning of 'volunteer'?

Mac user since '98. Never looked back. Too tired to even get into debates about Winshit vs Mac ... just don't know where to start. How do you begin to explain counterpoint to a hip-hop lover?

The two-headed ones.

99.5% of the Iranian population is Muslim, the vast majority of whom are Shia. The remaining 0.5% are Zoroastrians, Jews and Christians. (The world's largest Zoroastrian population today does not reside in Iran but in India – we call them Parsis and Iranis – and they speak Gujerati, not Farsi.)...

Quite attractive. That's it. I'll be casting my vote for SDP come GE2020!

Well, the arch conservatives, Trump and Big Oil will tell you that climate change is a myth, despite solid meteorological data from weather stations from Beijing to Washington and Islamabad to Timbucktoo, plus concurrence by climate scientists in top institutions worldwide. The question isn't...

Disagree. I didn't 'dictate'. Merely 'suggested'. I'm a firm believer in letting a person do what he wants, even if he falls. Better to fall and pick yourself up again than not try at all. Of course, that doesn't mean I can't give advice.

Again, your grey cells are found wanting. Didn't I just say in my first post: "Amos will learn that there's no free lunch, even in the Land of the Free." It means: "Go ahead, you'll learn the hard way." Didn't tell him not to do what he wanted.

As usual you've missed my gist. Expected, given the amount of air space between your ears. Of course, many people survive through the internet. Xiaxue is one. But until Amos is able to feed himself making YouTube videos, he shouldn't be leeching off others. Get a part-time job, continuing...

America is no welfare state. Amos will learn that there's no free lunch, even in the Land of the Free. Many successful American artists, entrepreneurs and showbiz celebs started off waiting on tables, cashiering at the supermart checkout, or even whoring. Why should Amos be any different? As I...

It's a schizophrenic approach adopted by the PAP for political ends. On the one hand, you have the 'Speak Mandarin' Campaign and banning of dialect programmes on state-owned media which largely accounted for the alienation of younger Chinese from their cultural roots, which are closely tied to...

Agree that the average Singaporean is a frog in the well. I've seen many Singlish speakers struggle to communicate properly in standard English with foreigners and native speakers. Sad, considering that we're at the crossroads – between North & South, East & West – and hence best placed to...

Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Melayu are both standard variants of Malay, and are generally mutually intelligible. Much like BrE and AmE, or Taiwanese guoyu and PRC's putonghua. Of course for such a large archipelago there are some differences in local terminology and vocabulary, even from...

Rubbish. I've used Bahasa in Sumatra, Batam, Bintan, Bali, Jakarta and Bandung and have made myself understood everywhere I went, just with a slight change in pronunciation and adopting some local terminology. There are local dialects, of course, but since Suharto's time even your lowly...

Cat Stevens is hardly the paragon of Islamic moderation. He famously supported the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, saying, 'The Quran is very clear on this: if you blaspheme the prophet, you must die.' He never wavered on this stand. It shook the world because many expected a rock singer of...

Yes. He's taller than LKY.

If Operation Coldstore had fallen through, and the Barisan Sosialis had won the elections, Singapore would be a very different place today. A little less developed perhaps, a less impressive GDP, but a kinder and happier place with a much narrower income gap and greater equality. What if. It...

How true. From the Lion of Anson to the Six Church Mice. The story of our nation.

Pinky taking over the helm was already the beginning of the end. CCS will stay the course and continue on the same trajectory. The only hope left is for the 70% to wake up in time to vote a critical mass of opposition candidates into Parliament. Failing which a revolution may be necessary.