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> Since all major Linux distros are deciding to adopt systemd...

Slackware is a major distro. So I expect everyone who opposes systemd to migrate to Slackware, and I'll get even more slackbuilds to browse through on SBO, right?

That's what ROT-13 and secret decoder rings are for.

Yeah, I wonder why the camera didn't catch the comet's tail.

There's a possibility all the volatile components have already been burned off by the solar wind (which is what causes the tail). That would make this either a very old, or very small comet. Or one that wasn't that icy to begin with.

My house is 100 years old. The walls are bright green and ten feet high, and full of homemade art. I will never buy or live in a boring beige box again.

I'll never understand why people want to live in such mind numbingly plain spaces. We decorate our cars, we decorate our laptops, we have cute cases for our phones, but the walls of the house we live in must be grey, beige or off-white? I don't mind the architectural sameness. I understand its efficiency. But the lack of color, or any kind of self-expression, that's what I don't get.

> Ads aren't inherently "wrong".

Yes, psychologically manipulating people and lying to them for money is wrong.

> you'd have to be a complete idiot to yield to someone who got there after you.

You'd be surprised. Or else the vast majority of drivers around here are complete idiots. They basically treat traffic circles like a confusing 4-way stop sign. It's infuriating.

Chicken fries?

To NOT decorate the things you own seems inhuman.

They give away like five pairs to women in need for every pair you buy.

The "loud pipes save lives" excuse is a load of horse hockey, and everybody knows it.

From Wiki: "Leadership has been described as "a process of social influence in which one person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task"."

I don't see how this isn't exactly what every single manager does, everyday. They get paid twice what I get paid, just for giving me work to do. Whether I'm in the office or in China, what difference does it make?

I've recently come to see the light regarding light roasts, too. Tastes more like coffee and less like bitter.

But the other comment about tea, they're right. Tea in bags is hardly fit for making sweet iced tea. A hot cup of black tea requires loose leaf stuff from outside the US. And it's quite good. Not sure it beats coffee, but it's a lot closer than Lipton would have us believe.

> As blue_beetle said: "If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold."

Also if you are paying for it. See cable TV, magazines, cell phones, etc.

What topic is that?

I meant that the several rooms of a single home were connected by tunnels, not that multiple homes were connected together.

This is always how I've imagined my dream house to be. Energy efficient, immersed in nature, easy to hide if necessary.

Then why didn't the invading Europeans die from new American diseases in equal proportions? Because old-world livestock lived closer to humans, in larger quantities, for longer, therefore giving Europeans many more diseases to become immune to.

Basically, Europeans had domesticated animals on a much larger scale than a few llamas a few places on the continent. It was deeply integral to the old-world way of life in a way that Native American culture didn't even come close.

Not that this isn't awesome, but aren't hobbit houses underground? With networks of tunnels and hillside windows and entrances? This looks like a rustic country house with a green roof. As much as I like this, I'd prefer something actually underground.

It's not about getting anywhere faster. It's about not being trapped, and about having control of my own situation. Hell, I'll drive 12 hours rather than spend 6-8 dealing with airport bullshit, for precisely that reason. I want to be in control, and I don't want to be trapped.

That's what on-ramps are for. If traffic is congested enough to demand merging (rather than just making sure the road is clear), you shouldn't be driving at 90mph. On the other hand, you probably shouldn't be driving at 60 either. Speed limits should be limits, not averages, or worst-case.

>> Well, if you were keeping all the code to yourself you presumably wouldn't be accepting poorly reviewed patches from random people.

How does this follow? You can just as easily hire "random people" to make mistakes as you can accept mistakes from people you don't pay. The problem is poorly reviewed code either way. Not the license.

Didn't he have pancreatic cancer? That's not the kind a little chemo can fix. It has a very high rate of mortality. Patrick Swayze died from it not too long before Jobs.

I'm not defending the new age medicine he opted for first. But I don't think it's what caused his death. Might have hastened it a little is all.

How does one "be illegal"? I think it doesn't make sense (or is at least ambiguous and confusing) unless you replace it with "being here illegally".

Because they're not the police. And the jails are already full.

I remember the Beastie Boys controversy, but what's this about a dying wish?

Because they don't offer content for sale anymore. You can rent it for the same price you used to buy it for though, if you submit to some pretty onerous restrictions, the occasional rootkit, and DRM, and give up any hope of owning what you bought. Is that the radical solution you're referring to?

Sony rootkit?

Maybe it's because I'm on linux, but torrented content never gave me any viruses. So as far as I'm concerned, the legal stuff is more likely to infect your system with malware.

So it's a really artistic, $5,000,000 album cover? Or a public performance piece?

Is it? How do they figure? Or do they just use whatever number RIAA gives them?

Not obviously. I'm pretty sure they could sell 5M copies at a buck apiece. Even in these dark days of record sales, they could probably make more than $5M with mass distribution.

"Lost sales" is not a necessary component of copyright infringement, if I recall.