You may find this interesting http://www.mantex.co.uk/2009/10/26/spelling-reform/

As of FreeBSD 8.1 with ZFS v14 I found it quite stable and usable enough to move it from my solaris install. the rig is a 16 core xeon with 96GB of RAM and 2 areca 24 port raid controllers with 4GB of cache each. Now, the 52TB of data configured into various raidz's and joined into the zpool all work quite nicely. And as of testing with separate drives, I have found it a VERY fast solution maxing connectivity across the 2 gig-e interfaces I have currently enabled on the machine. When you open your mouth, its a good idea to know WHAT you are talking about.

The problem doesn't disallow twins as it doesn't give TIME of birth. Only day. A child born at 11:50PM on Tuesday and one born at 00:15 on Wednesday are still both twins. It also does not include if in that scenario is a single egg birth or whatnot so it could still be a boy and girl twin situation.

Ever here of a grease pen? How about Tang?

And hear I thought it was Malwaria.

I tend to agree. I've use all the options mentioned. I am not a normal user though, and happened to run across the projects you mention. They all seem to work best via word of mouth. The problem is, if all these get installed in the base, do I have an option to NOT install them? And how far will this go? Should MS be forced to include 5 competing browsers, music, video apps? How about notepad and wordpad? In MS's position, they are selling a ready to go for most peoples use OS. A lot of people appreciate not having to make choices and just having something that works out of the box. You start bundling all these things together and soon people will complain about bloat, the less effectiveness of there smaller hard drives they bought to save money, and who knows what else. If you want to compete in a market, you have to actually do something besides just release a binary/source. You have to market it, get your name out there. Opera's flaw has been marketing imo. Besides bundling IE, what has MS done to block Opera on the desktop? We aren't talking Java here, or various other tech's that MS crippled from working. Bottom line, I don't want all the excess bundle, and wouldn't mind a selection of apps to choose from during install time, but don't force them on me in a default install. I'm a FreeBSD/OpenBSD user myself with an XP box for gaming still so I am not MS biased as I predominantly use BSD's because I prefer the openess of the arch, and a base install is really just that. A base set of tools to get where I need to for what I want. But mom and pop just want it to plug in and get online.

I think its already going there. Canada already has a tax on blank media that goes to the big recording industry. What's to keep all blank media being sold under them though so they get 100% of the profit of the media (which will now be priced near the price of a album or movie).

What if my mission was handling your money and my mission crashed because of a patch that I didn't have an immediate fix for? Its easier to fix a system in a state you know than the state a patch potentially puts it in.

My sparc runs openbsd as well. I have a freebsd router behind it. I love how well pf works on the bsd's.

So true. I have a Sun Sparc Station 5 running an vital role on my lan and it does its job day in and day out with no complaints. I also have a 2 dual p3 1.4 systems with 4GB a piece that same as the sparc run day in and day out. I got each machine for between 50 and 80 used. Why should I buy new when they work perfectly fine for use?

If it came down to a large scale problem over an elapsed time, you really think the current government would maintain power? We live in an age where military movement and political decisions happen quickly because of technology. Any break down in that would most likely result in anarchy. If not nation wide, locally through the country. And yeah, you can get guns, but how do you stop a mob with guns? I hope you planned an underground bunker with hydroponics too, and provided yourself with at least a 1K geothermal generator.

What do you do when people with guns realize this and force you off your land? I had the same thing at my last place, including 4K of windpower and 2K of solar backed by enough batteries to last me through 3 days. Everything that could be gas was gas. 800gal propane tank. What was I to do when that ran out? Someone would find out I was living comfy and then more people would decide they need what I had more than me.

Reading that link, it seems a person could be charged on the same $ 4, 5, or maybe even 6 times depending on how he allocated and then later spends. An even simpler tax would be a global tax on purchase of goods. Everyone needs them and everyone buys them. You would get taxes on what you buy and not what you earn. That way, invested income would be safe from taxes until you drew it out later, and guess what spent it on a good.