Well NZ public transport is crap. Its not all that bad. In fact moving from NZ to Austria was great for my daughter, as its one of the best public transport system in world and cheap. It gave her the freedom of a car before she could drive.

I'm 38 and i can hear them. They don't work either.

Yea.. I am younger and we were like that. Best holidays ever. Especially once you have car. Of course the job to pay for the car and gas did cut into fun time a bit.

Slashdot is as much as a geek thing as facebook. Its not.

My daughter is now 22 and living in a different country. But we had the same polices. Food, power, rent and video games are not free and i am not your cash cow. Also there is basic household cores that need to be done. Pull your weight or get your own place. In the end we made her get her own place. Mostly for being exceptionally rude to us. It help our relationship dramatically (shock horror power bills and *internet* bills made her panic). She still flunked school. But she is a stable happy person that is now working out whats next in life while she saves from a steady job.

Any human who answers yes to the first question is a liar or in denial.

When i install linux i do a full install. That is about 10min now with a SDD drive. That includes full latex, open office, about 5 desktop environments, open office a bunch of browsers and almost everything i need out of the box. I have never needed to reboot after install or "update", hell i have laptops with uptimes at almost a year.

There is no doubt that it is possible. At least as far as the physics is concerned. Weather we ever have the economic incentive or patients to carry out such a project is something else entirely.

So is their genetics and their environment ie what they are exposed too, what kind of work they do.....

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2004-10-02/

Japan is having problems because of massive overfishing. And when they can't find any close my, they use their long range trawlers to fish in other countries waters. The amount of black market seafood i saw there was crazy. We have even found blue whale (genetically verified.)

You can have a healthy diet as a vegan, as vegetarian and as a meat eater. It is perhaps a bit harder for a vegan. However all of the above can have quite unhealthy diets as well. And while we talking about health. It should be noted that even small amounts of physical activity have a large effect on general health regardless of diet.

God no. You compile to a slackware package. Either with a Slackbuild script someone has already written (true of just about everything out there), or write one yourself and release it to the community.

It has happened to me more than once with nothing but default settings and repos on Fedura and Debian i think?

I use slackware because of that. I hate when i get 5 gigs of crap update that is 99.9% not needed, and then breaks things. Its like people are taking the worst of windows and putting it on linux.

My last slackware install has need just 2 packages updated because of security advisories in the last year. JUST 2. I get work done, not piss around on the internet with updates every 3 hours.