He also tore CUPS authors and the open source user interface authors a new one in an infamous essay
And comparing their work versus ESR on fetchmail is a classic case of glass house and thrown stones - but someone has to be a critic. Airing his political dirty linen and annoyance with investigative journalists in the "jargon file" was probably the point where he spent the capital of goodwill he had built up and was taken less seriously
which you can melt down and reform to sheet/billet/whatever
Only if you've got a very hot furnace and can keep all oxygen and nitrogen away from the molten metal. Titanium is a bastard to work with which is why something so easily mined (there's a lot of it in beach sand) is so expensive.
milled titanium alloy back when I had fuckloads of money to burn
That pretty well sums up what you need to do when you choose titanium
If you don't like it, get off your couch and go get arrested for civil disobedience somewhere.
But that may mean travel and getting testicles squeezed by the TSA!
It *could* be that HFCS is worse than some other sugars
The mechanism is well understood - it's twice as bad for the liver as sucrose and the same as fructose from apples etc. As for the pancreas, it's not so clear but the liver situation is bad enough.
Switching from HFCS to cane sugar is probably not a significant improvement
Beyond a certain level you are absolutely right and there are plenty of people with a vast amount of sucrose or fructose in their diets. However below that obvious level of overconsumption it appears that HFCS is causing liver damage in children. That's not a "think of the children" plea, it just hits kids harder since their livers are smaller so that's where it's being noticed.
It's a pretty nasty unintended consequence of protecting cane farmers from the free market - previously more expensive HFCS became the cheap sweetener of choice and you need a lot more of it to get the same sweet taste as cane sugar.
I don't expect an actual discussion anymore
I thought that was your aim when you replied with guesses and gut feeling without taking the majority of my short and simple post into account. Why shouldn't I object? VNC held up as an example of X - WTF?
Wayland is not a thing you should be fighting
Who said I was fighting Wayland? I'm "fighting" against the misinformed "X is fundamentally broken" comments with something designed for slightly different tasks and still in early development held up as the instant replacement. It's not Wayland's fault that people take comments about using X on a phone out of context and hold those up as an example of why X should be instantly replaced with Wayland in all areas.
Force needed to accelerate 2.2lbs of cookies = 1 Fig-newton to 1 meter per second