You're correct, and also irrelevant to the fact that this thread was talking about CO2 buildup causing the urge to breathe, even if the article is about what you bring up.

...unless you're a smoker and have highly depressed CO2 overload sensations due to your constant saturation.

That's true, but I see it as a matter of degree. Windows does a lot more, sure, but FreeBSD is still doing some HTTP parsing in a kernel module.

Exactly this. I'd like to think that there's an air gap (ahem) between the avionics and passenger networks, and that it's impossible to access the avionics system from the passenger compartment. I'd also like to think it doesn't rely on security through obscurity, like "we run our API server on port 81 instead of port 80, ha-HA!". Come on, Slashdot: we have to have at least one aerospace engineer in here, don't we?

FWIW, I think those are perfectly plausible explanations. I mainly meant wanted to frame the GP's own opinion as a formal test case; that's a copy-and-paste of what he wrote.

That test fails. What if it costs $50 per night for the bunk-bed and the rest is subsidized through external donations?

And if that $200 turns into renting clinic space and buying supplies to provide free medical care to poor children?

My point is that the answer to these questions is never simple, and if you think you've found a simple definition that neatly covers everything, it suggests you're likely missing something.

I don't, and neither can anyone else.

I'm not disagreeing with you, because I think that stuff is disgusting. But. As a programmer, how would you write a function that returns a boolean value: "is this church a legitimate non-profit?" Because that's ultimately what you're asking, and I'm having a hard time formulating such a thing.

Test cases:

* A small-town church with a pastor who has four different congregations: True
* A huge all-glass cathedral, $ multi-million salaries for the charismatic preacher begging for more donations, and toys like private jets and limos: False
* A small local all-volunteer charity that feeds the homeless: True
* A small, all-volunteer, poorly run charity who means well but sucks at their mission: True
* A large national charity with a well-paid CEO who effectively uses their resources to do amazing things: True
* A large national charity with a well-paid CEO who isn't very effective, but everyone agrees means well: True?
* A large national charity with a well-paid CEO who doesn't effectively uses their resources: Um...

Step one: agree on the test cases. Step two: specific the input parameters that lets you distinguish between outcomes. Step three: non-profit?

They probably saw that FreeBSD has been doing it for 15 years and thought it might be a good idea.

Apparently not everyone agrees with that.

I'm in no way a Microsoft apologist, but it's not like a senior engineer rolled out of bed one morning, smoked some crack, and yelled "hey, let's break some crap today!" Lots of stuff is done in kernel mode in Linux and the BSDs - like all kinds of graphical mischief - and MS probably does the same things for the same reasons.

I love xkcd, but... no. That's true if you extrapolate a trend from 3 or 4 data points. If you extrapolate it from a few hundred, then it starts to look a little more predictive.

Kurzweil may or may not be nuts, but the data seems to be going his way so far.

"We are assured that rapid progress will soon bring self-driving electric cars,

Uh....

hypersonic airplanes,

Well...

individually tailored cancer cures,

cough-cough

and instant three-dimensional printing of hearts and kidneys.

You see...

We are even told it will pave the world's transition from fossil fuels to renewable energies,"

Aww screw it.

Could there have been worse examples of "LOL those crazy promises!"?

I wouldn't say very old.

Arguing that we should have the right not to do business with groups we dislike, which was precisely the excuse given in the 60's by people who didn't blacks in their restaurant, is not-so-thinly veiled bigotry. It's painful listening to those who don't know history trying to repeat it, desperately hoping that this time it will be different and they'll be allowed to show "those people" who's in charge.

For the record, I'm not black, gay, or liberal. But things like this are exactly the reason why I'm no longer a Republican. I just can't go along willingly with the Attempt Of The Week to make this a hyperconservative theocracy. When someone inevitably comes along and wants to deny my right to fully participate in society, I hope we'll have built the momentum to shut it down.

I cannot keep up with the contortion of intellectual dishonesty required to type that sentence with a straight face. I don't think you're lying to me and that you really believe this, but I equally believe that you're lying to yourself. Have a nice day and best of luck in your future endeavors.