Q*Bert is related somehow, but I haven't figured it all out yet. Maybe this will help explain it.

That explains why my cat chewed my 50' ethernet cable in half.

Hmm..

There's a Russia joke in here somewhere, I swear it.

Fat people are the only ones unhealthy due to a sedentary lifestyle?

That's news to me.

"Then i go back to my nicely locked down browser (no cookies, flash, etc without my OK) but in the process I've virtually guaranteed that no site i visit will ever get a dime in revenue from me unless they embed the ads from their own domain (haven't quite figured out how to block THOSE)."

There's an addon called "Remove It Permanently". It allows you to remove just about any object in a page (with a few options like similar or by domain). In conjunction with adblock and noscript, the internet is manageable again for me.

As much as I'd like to make fun of the hardcore linux nerds that look down upon all else as inferior, I'd have to say your troll garners 1/10.

Ubuntu isn't bad, I would likely use it full time if my raid array were supported (without having to splice monkey DNA into the kernel). I do dig the interface in Ubuntu far more than post-XP windows, because when they moved to Vista and beyond it sucked ass.

You however can eat ass.

I expect it filmed and up on youtube tomorrow.

Modded troll, but instead of modding him troll why don't you point out counter arguments? This is a large part of the anti-linux sentiment and dispelling these "myths" if they are indeed such would go a long way in public perception.

As far as I see it, he's right aside from the ad hominem attacks.

To offer up a bit of a comparison, this principle is exactly what landed NASA in trouble back in the 80's, and likely before then too. Management not understanding what was being done and somehow, with this lack of knowledge, assessing acceptable risk.

It boggles my mind.

Whenever I read posts like these I start to wonder if I accidentally walked into a Starbucks.

Sadly it seems like mod composing is a lost art. I started with Impulse Tracker 2.14 (I'm horribly late to the game, starting in 1997) but most of the tracker format applications made after that seem to have lost any kind of spark that made them interesting. It's hard to define.

Schism tracker does quite well in replicating the old IT feel, but ultimately when composing I still prefer to use dosbox and the original IT application. Viewing the old mod files scares me a bit, but I've always been terribly fascinated by 4 channel mods since there are so many limitations. Didn't the mod format itself get upgrades through the years? I could have sworn I've seen 8 channel ones somewhere in the same extension.

There's always Sealand! :D

Oh, wait..

Well, at least they tried.

I didn't see this mentioned in comments before this, apologies in advance if it was.

Give http://toastytech.com/guis/index.html a try. It's got a lot of various screenshots of GUIs, some pretty obscure.

Oh yeah? Well, my unborn son (or daughter) installed BeOS without any help at all! If you guys can't even match wits with an unborn.. well, you're just stupid.

What is the point of Linux security when everyone is using sudo all the time to install shit?

That to me seems like a very dangerous and unnecessary step.

You are going to ignore the first two paragraphs even though they directly pertain to the shit you are trying to pull? Okay. That doesn't change the fact you are merely being a parrot, which is relevant. It's the real problem and the real issue I take with your post. You quite frankly didn't do your homework and then spout the same uninformed slogans every news outlet is. That is a BIG problem and that kind of attitude is precisely what's been getting our country into the shitter. People voted for McCain because they believed Obama was a terrorist. They wouldn't do research and just parroted these silly headlines to each other to reinforce the idea. That is ENTIRELY relevant to your post.

Do I need to spell out how silly and dangerous that is some more? What happened to being intelligent and having informed opinions? You're free to have beef with whatever you want but you ought to back it with some kind of reasoning beyond a silly "all or nothing" idea that does nothing to hurt the administration if it were held to.

The rule was put in place for a good reason. it was so that lobbyists had a much harder time influencing government as badly as it has for the last.. well, how long now? This "all or nothing" thing you keep mentioning has to go. 100% adherence to anything is a very bad idea because it does not allow any sort of flexibility which we sorely need to change how this country operates for the better. I (and many other people) would rather Obama break the rule to hire in a single person who the President feels is incredibly capable than abandoning the law altogether. Horrible analogy time.

Saying "the administration shouldn't even have a rule in the first place if it's going to make an exception" is like saying Ambulances shouldn't be allowed to speed or go on the wrong side of the road because of the law they must obey, even though the reason is acceptable and necessary to save someone's life. Surely you can see how this is directly relevant. As long as he is up front about exactly why he made the decision and it is a sensible decision, that is acceptable. It's when they go behind the scenes or do it for shitty reasons where the problems start. It was not a blind decision.