I agree. Big spoken numbers seem to be a trend going on. I was taking a bike ride through a gated neighborhood with larger homes the other day and right out on the lawn was the for-sale sign with the broker name: "Trillionaire Assets".

Sorry but thats just how it is, even in the Linux world. You can't relive the past. You gotta move on to newer things. Just look at my screen handle; I've learned this lesson myself. Don't waste time hoping it will make a comeback because it won't; not as long as there's a surplus of people willing to complain about how old and obsolete it is, and not as long as there's no significant payoff to be made.

Indeed. I won't argue that people can be collectively retarded in mass numbers at times. But I still don't think thats justification for empowering the government with wide-reaching internet censorship. If people wanna act crazy, I say: LET THEM. If I had to choose between the occasional outburst of mass hysteria versus the permanent ongoing supression of free speech, I'll take the former over the latter.

I can see it happening. The NSA is relatively new, so next comes the NMHPA (National Mass Hysteria Prevention Agency). They'll censor the internet systematically with advanced technology solutions and and say "No, we're not oppressing people's right to free speech. We're preventing panic caused by mass hysteria".

I have a small bit of of software that I think is pretty useful. However, the company that created it many years ago is long since out of business. As I understand it, the company's intellectual rights and other such software was acquired by a lawfirm of some sort. I've spoken with them about it, and they no longer have the original source code to the software, so they have no way to update and maintain it or create updates for it. I told them that its such an old piece of software that its very easy to decompile; we could just decompile and then move forward using that. But they said that even so, they still have no interest in making any attempt to do this because its just not something that they see as a profitable endeavor. So that pretty much makes it shelved and abandoned.

So what I'm wondering now is if I would be breaking any laws or putting myself at risk of getting sued if I decompiled it and then created an open source project using the decompiled code.

I bet somewhere out there hovering in a spacecraft in the next dimension, a couple of aliens were having beers together and one said to the other "I bet you 1 million astro-bucks these humans are stupid enough to be tricked into microwaving themselves to death". And sure enough, the saucer people started Ossia and are now marketing and preparing their doomsday devices for mass distribution. Yes, collectively, we're dumb enough people. Its happening. Its bad enough with all the wifi, cell, bluetooth, and other such radio waves, but this is the big kahuna that proves we're all .......just .....plain....stupid.

Relatively few have enough sense to know when to abandon ship!

I always thought dynebolic was pretty good. But lets be real here: you're going to expand creativity by creating a restriction? The OS itself should be a snap-together of the users preferences. No two people are alike and different folks are going to want different combinations of tools. Debian and Ubuntu are already doing the right thing by just putting it all out there and letting you take what you want as-needed.

I agree, but first we have to deal with a whole planet of naysayers who insist it can't be done. I've made the same mesh internet comment more times than I can remember, but someone always talks about latency and bottlenecking and a myriad of other arguments to support their stubborn position on the topic. My theory is: if we just go ahead and try doing it anyhow, solutions will be found in the course of time. Its just a matter of collective determination and will. Humanity can make it happen.

Great. YAL. Somebody please call CALA. Will VOIP come into question? Will the 2A be discussed? TMI People! I gtg. L8R

I once thought about learning python. Then i combed craigslist across the US looking for job opportunities doing python programming. Relatively few out there by comparison to ASP.NET and Java. Sure its less buggy.....but whats to motivate anyone to learn something they can't easily find work in?

....or maybe more like great uncles. These are people who have managed to stay valuable for many years and have decades of wisdom and experience behind them. They are not stupid, and can see things as they are about to happen before they actually do happen and the patterns of business repeat themselves. Don't just pay attention to what they say. Pay attention to what they DO because to just be dismissive of their ramblings will likely yield to be, well, foolish.

Give me quality please.

If only we could somehow create a temporary miniature black hole at the site of the incident and suck the entire plant site and all its radioactively contaminants into a ball of matter no bigger than a pea, and then create a parallel dimensional portal and then send the pea through it and close the portal and just make this whole problem go away.

Chuck Norris does not spin his right foot around and roundhouse kick you in the face. He spins the world with his left foot.