I'm not really acquainted with Star Wars mythology, but the wikipedia page on General Grievous states that he was once a dude who was fatally wounded and was reconstructed using cybernetic limbs. Kind of like Robocop, I guess. That means he had an organic brain, with neurons.

A web browser is not a part of the OS. There, I've said it, and it's true. On my Android phone, I can just delete the Browser.apk file and the web browser is gone, and nothing else on the phone will be affected.

I'm one of those people who complain.

Why the hell would I want to invade their bedroom? No way in hell do I ever want to watch faggots buggering each other.

Terminator Salvation was set completely in the future.

On the subject of GoT, I think Slashdot should have a poll (or maybe they've already had one on GoT and I missed it?):

Why do you watch Game of Thrones?
(a) For the tits
(b) For the blood
(c) For the story
(d) For the CGI
(e) Game of Thrones? Wuzzat?

PC at work has Windows installed, so I don't really have a choice. At home, I installed Windows using reg key I stole from work - unused reg key, that is. Yes, I'm a software pirate and proud of it. I'll stop installing Windows when it no longer becomes possible for me to pirate it. I will never buy it because I don't think it's worth the price, especially when I can install Linux for free.

Wine is a compatibility layer. That's it. It is neither a virtual machine nor an emulator. An analogy is if you add an extension to Openoffice to make it able to edit, say a Word 2013 document. That doesn't make the Openoffice extension a Word 2013 emulator. Likewise, Wine allows you to run Windows executables in Linux, or in other words, you can run Windows programs in Linux using Wine, but Wine itself doesn't emulate an operating system.

So you admit that to drink or not to drink is a matter of choice. Thus your reasoning in your sentence, "If we didn't feel the effects, then we wouldn't drink it" is false.

In my 36 years of life, I have never drunk even one drop of alcohol. Don't blame God for your own lack of willpower.

You have the wrong idea on what a marine engineer does. A marine engineer is involved in engineering of boats, ships, oil rigs and similar sea-going vessels. What you want is a water engineer.

The anecdote said the guy was the owner. That doesn't necessarily mean he has an executive position. Maybe he owns the company but hires other people to be the CEO and fill all the other management positions. He holds no position in the company but sometimes he just likes to waltz in and help around where he can. It's his company, so what's wrong with him being able to do whatever he likes with it?

Go here: http://www.android.com/about/jelly-bean/
The page clearly says that Photo Sphere is a feature of Android 4.2 Jelly Bean.

Same sex couples are abominations and should be taken out of consideration.

There's Android and there's Android.

1. There's the version of Android maintained by the AOSP that is fully open source.

2. Then there's the version of Android that Google releases exclusively for its Nexus line of devices. Although it contains some codes common with the open source, AOSP, codes, it also contains some closed source features like Photosphere. Note that Photosphere is not merely an additional application, but Google is marketing is as a part of Android 4.2 released for the Nexus devices. Since Photosphere is closed source, thus this version of Android cannot be said to be open source.

So, if someone says that Android is open source, he's correct. But if someone else says Android is not open source, he's also correct. They're just talking about different Androids.