On the server side when admining hundreds or thousands of machines, troubleshooting a bloated needlessly complex system wastes precious time.

Yup. That's why the major distros are all switching away from SysV init to systemd. Because the alternative is to continue with a Rube Goldbergish mess of shell scripts with no proper event-based activation nor decent process monitoring.

I am most definitely not the only one fed up with chasing Heisenbugs in a maze of twisty little shell scripts, all alike.

open("sense_of_humour",0) = ENOENT

Nope, in the gamer community this person would be hailed as a hero for outing people who act unethically by disregarding Facebook's rules.

Yeah, but you're the typical narcissistic basement-dwelling 'libertarian' who would say that, just to excuse his own lack of social graces.

conventional political correctness.

Otherwise known as being considerate and polite. Old-fashioned, I know.

"Caves to FCC Pressure"? Really?

Oh that poor Verizon, can't just exploit its customers like so many sheep to the slaughter, what is this world coming to.

Samzenpus is really trying to turn this place into FoxSlash, isn't he? This some of the most sycophantic corporate-asslicking prose I've seen here so far.

Yup. That's called 'Verelendung'. Marx wasn't right on all counts, but he damn well got that one correct.

Rather raises the question of why we went from devomax from full-independence-or-nothing in the space of twenty-four months.

No it does not. For fucks sake, I'm a Dutchman, I don't follow the UK news daily, and even I know that it was the Unionists who insisted on a two-alternative referendum. Salmond as negotiator offered Devo-Max as a possibility and was shot down.

What is it with you guys? Is reading and checking facts for yourself really that sodding hard?

I don't who taught you to read, but even across the North Sea it's obvious that it is Better Together, not the Yes campaign, who are threatening a nasty vicious divorce.

And second, it's an entire Yes campaign. It's not just the SNP. If even I can get that from here in the Netherlands, what's your excuse?

Well, yes, they do. Just look at the popularity of various autocratic authoritarian political parties, from the US Republicans down to the Golden Dawn in Greece.

Certainly, in well-functioning democracies they do not form enough of a majority to actually overthrow the rule of law on its own, but the fact that they can poll up to 40% of the populace easily demonstrates that there is a streak of authoritarian followers in every population.

Christopher Hitchens in short: "Be an egocentric asshole". Which he certainly proved to be; whatever his faults, the man was at least consistent in his values.

As I already pointed out, Bruno was not burned for his scientific views, but his religious ones. And as it turns out, so was d'Ascoli.

The church, both the Catholic and the various Protestant ones, has done enough damage without needing to invent more. So far I haven't seen proof of scientists being burned for their scientific views. You'll have to do better than this.

Examples? With the phrasing he uses? Hitler.

You realize of course that there was a time about 500 years back, when scientists were actually burned at the stake for having the wrong theory?

Got any examples? The closest thing I can think of is Galileo, and he got in hot water more for playing politics the wrong way, not for his scientific insights per se. And all he got was house arrest in a luxurious villa.

And no, don't mention Giordano Bruno. He was not burned for adhering to Copernicanism, but for his religious views.