Except a terminal is generally nothing more than a castrated personal computer. Not only that but they quite often end up being MORE expensive.

I have pretty good experiences with using Ras Pi's as X terminals. Feel free to call them expensive.

After all, here is a guy (who insists on using a juvenile nickname) who had the wool pulled over his eyes by perhaps one of the most successful psychopaths of this and the last century: Steve Jobs. Do you really think this guy is qualified? The analogy would be asking RMS for hygiene tips, or ESR for advice on your sex life.

It wasn't more than a few years ago that we had a comment from a guy who shared office with RMS, who insisted that RMS had excellent hygiene so I would suggest you stick to car analogies. As to Woz, he might be a bit naive but he is a great engineer and his heart is in the right place. I would love to have more friends with those qualities.

t's also relatively new, people have been dying in traffic for as long as most of us care to remember, but terrorism is only 12 years old.

Our current level of terrorism is actually fairly low compared to the 70's. I don't remember the western world turning into a police state back then although the germans were a bit uptight at the time.

The average person does not hate it. Just your own little moral online tribal society hates it, where you reinforce to each other statements about the awfulness of this or that vis-a-vis politics, in support of a meme-based amalgam of people looking for power themselves.

I completely agree; it doesn't matter that some average yahoo hate the stock market. What matters is that most firms and investors now consider the stock market so rigged that it doesn't serves its original purpose. Therefore they no longer participates. That's the real problem.

No no no, the Germans are the only people who can culturally relate to autistic people -- the need for order and rigorous detail is appreciated there and viewed as a good thing. ;-)

I've been inside a BMW assembly plant in Germany and I were chocked even though I had been warned in advance. The place was cleaner than most restaurants in the rest of the world.

Everybody who've have had a high-end German car is ready to praise German obsessive compulsiveness. You can also find a lot of shit in Germany but when they really try, then they go all out.

The key question today is to chose a job that can't be offshored and pays a decent salary. Medicine is the sweet spot but the rest of us have to be creative.

Elegant is supposed to be readable. They're supposed to be the same. If you write code no one understands, it's not elegant, it's obtuse.

The easy solution is to task switch developers. When they rotate back, a year later, they get to feel all the pains of maintaining their own obtuse shit without the benefit of short term memory.

It's a phase. I too have been proud of writing grotesque, obtuse code. Debugging said code 6-12 months later is usually a humbling experience.

Were I omnipotent, I could simply will myself to be omniscient. Neither of those prescribe morality, however.)

Are you sure god isn't just impotent and pissed off because he can't get any?

He also has a view that God does not exist.

Chanting every morning with my head in an arbitrary direction:There is no god and Richard Dawkins is his prophet!

Call me paranoid, but the camouflage of this bird only works against low-tech opponents. So it's only useful against wet-backs, smugglers and other criminals. Plus, the general public.

You would lead a happier life if you chose to ignore their advice.

Heretic. How dare you defile the one true distro. LFS is the distro that makes men out of boys and make grown men cry. LFS is the USMC bootcamp of Linux, so enjoy the pain. Now drop and give me 50 reinstalls.

In an ideal world, we would be able to eliminate CO2 from our atmosphere completely.

Sigh. We need a certain amount of greenhouse effect in order to make the planet habitable. Nature, itself provides the required amount of CO2 to create that effect and that is a significant reason why life arose on this planet in the first place.

Things get dodgy when human activity causes the release of a shitload of extra CO2 and therefore amp up the greenhouse effect.