100 million downloads on a good day would mean 30 million people installing it.

Of those, how many kept using it?

My experience with OpenOffice, in all of its forms, has always been and continues to be negative.

In terms of hours lost, Microsoft Office is a bargain compared to this buggy code-what-pleases-you piece of shit.

Here in USA it's being reported this way:

"Heartbleed hacker caught in Canada"

Translation:

Media sheep, go back to sleep. We caught THE hacker responsible for Heartbleed, thus it can fall into the memory hole. Any concerns you may have about your fellow citizens, their business interests or governments monitoring you, or perhaps about the general competence of software development (!!!) can also go back to sleep.

Sleep, sleep my lovelies. Tomorrow there is obedience at school/job, and then shopping and sexy videos on the internet. Sleep, sleep.

If you have good quality people, especially a good leader, your code will be good.

Even if the people are relatively inexperienced.

At this point, just about everything in IT/CS is a research project, not innovation.

So it's a matter of diligently doing the work based on past archetypes.

Slavery was a traditional value for thousands of years, too - so you must be a slaver, or a hypocrite. Pick one. We can wait.

Let me guess: you think you're the first person to come up with this, and that it's clever. Let me disabuse you of both those notions. This is a common internet trope, the "inverse Godwin."

Slavery has taken many forms. In the Western tradition, it was reserved for prisoners of war who served a kind of indentured servitude. It was part of the feudal system and was thus managed by social, not governmental forces. Chattel slavery -- which is what you're speaking of -- came about when this system was overthrown.

In other words, not only did your argument fail, but you made my point for me.

What will I do? Probably keep working from a known image and patch it up as best I can.

In other words, the same thing I've done with legacy DOS, 95, Novell, 98 and 2k systems.

My hope is that at some point I can find a low-overhead Linux or BSD system to use as a VM host, and then have access to every operating system since the dawn of the 4004.

The militant gay people think they have the right to tell other people what moral values they have to have. Personally, I don't give a crap who someone has sex with. I just find it repulsive when people who don't feel the same way are called names like 'homophobe'.

This is culture war, not common sense. They want to legalize gay marriage so that they have a way of smashing marriage and traditional values.

It has nothing to do with "tolerance." This is intolerance of the majority, intolerance of history, and hatred of normalcy by a group that wants to seize power.

This is the same group that has traditionally run nations into the ground.

Our new tech overlords, made rich by a market that dropped in their laps, now want to experiment with "social engineering."

This has a bad history. Hitler, Stalin, et al.

However, they don't care -- this is about their egos and feeling good for having done something socially popular, at least among their somewhat incestuous and nepotistic California cult.

Naturally, any dissenters must be weeded out, as they were in the Soviet Union and after the French Revolution.

Ideology of this sort never changes. Since it is not based in reality, but in thinking about what "ought" to be, it views any dissent as a threat that might invalidate its own claim to being morally right.

Thus, the dissenters must be squashed. Gulag, guillotine, or boycott. It matters not which is used so long as it silences them.

Every option presented to the voters is wrong.

There have been many reformers over the years. Are you telling me they were all wrong?

You're ignoring the fact that the options presented reflect what is likely to succeed with the herd of voters. We the People are the enemy.

NSA.

For everything that's wrong... blame them.

It's not that our society is failing, that our voters are mentally obese and thus always pick the wrong option.

Nope, it's the NSA. NSA did this to you. You're the victim, not the perpetrator.

Keep saying it and maybe someday, you'll believe it.

These ideological projects all follow the same pattern:

Think about what ought to be, in an emotional and social sense.

Then design something that plausibly fits within those parameters, although not in such a way that it will be a necessary solution.

Gather tons of money, hype, CV points, etc.

Fail.

Sort of like the French Revolution, Bolshevik Revolution, and all other liberal efforts since the dawn of time. Those people are pathological.

Humanity doesn't need your "standards and values". These values were defeated in 1864 when the south had their slavery whipped out of them; they were defeated in 1945 when the Nazis had the genocide whipped out of them, and on several other occasions in the past century when voting rights and the right to interracial marriage were forced down peoples' throats despite the strident screams of the bigots - using, mind you, some of the exact same language that you are using right now.

Also Godwinned in 1. Clearly you don't have an argument either.

Keep in mind that most of what you bemoan as "bigotry" existed for thousands of years, all over the earth, before your "Enlightenment" values.

Now, as modern society continues to fall apart internally and has persistent problems that it cannot address, it's clear that the ancients were right and people like you -- pompous jerks who think emotion is a substitute for logic, and who just want a reason to be better than realists like me -- have been wrong all along.

As your society fails, you'll be first against the wall. And the best part is that it won't be me doing it.

Just like what happened after we let women vote and then let white and blacks marry each other, right?

And... it looks like you don't really have an argument. I win this one.

The hippie dream:

We don't need hierarchy, or titles, or authority. Just people working together in perfect harmony, everyone loving one another, equal, all in one big room.

The reality:

Most people are delusional or confused, and without authority, they all work on whatever flatters them by making them seem important, which makes them as corrupt as third world cops when it comes to getting the essentials done.

How many open source projects have had missing vital functions for over a decade, or have other essential stuff (documentation, interface) that never quite got done? People do what they want, unless the whip is cracked.

All hail the cracking of the whip.

"Five hundred people picked at random today from the human population would not probably represent all of human genetic diversity"

Actually, it would do fine -- for a specific population.

You would need multiple such populations, because multiple population types exist in humanity.

Mixing populations would destroy diversity faster than anything else by approximating a mean.

Civilization is formed when a few break away from the rest and decide to do things differently.

Separated, they set up their own rules, and they succeed.

Then everyone else comes in and wishes to partake of the wealth. But these are people who can't discipline themselves to play by the new rules, so they start trying to destroy the rules.

Eventually they figure out that through a hybrid of altruism and individualism they can convince people that the only good/right thing to do is to wreck the rules.

The civilization collapses, and is swallowed up by the failures around it, forgotten to history.

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This is what is happening with political correctness in the West today.

A small group of people who have no skills other than socializing are trying to convince us to stop having standards and values as a civilization.

In the place of our values, they want "ideology," which basically means that hybrid of individualism and altruism.

The result will be breakdown to third-world levels of disorder, corruption, hygiene and dysfunction.

RIP USA