Does it run Vista?

1. acquire non-sea europe to asia internet backbone
2. hire ships to "drop anchor" on internet cables
3. ???
4. PROFIT!!!

I agree, out of every os that i've ever used that wasn't some windows version FreeBSD has the single best documentation.

The FreeBSD handbook is a superior resource than any distro's wiki anyday. And i'm not a BSD fanboy, i run linux at home (fedora, ubuntu, and centos) but i have a personal colo server and that runs BSD and i've never had to touch it once in 5 years, runs solid no problems at all

Thank god someone has their head on strait around here.

I don't understand how the internet gets mentioned and something is blown completely out of proportion. Facebook is not allowing these pictures on THEIR WEBSITE that's on THEIR SERVERS.

This is not censorship of any kind, this is a company with a policy and that policy doesn't allow these pictures to be posted. It's like a restaurant asking a woman who is breast feeding to stop or leave. They don't think that it is appropriate in their establishment same goes for facebook.

Unless you can explain how asking a woman in a restaurant that's breast feeding to stop or leave is censorship or unjust then you have no case here to accuse Facebook of censorship just because it is on the internet which all of a sudden seems to make everything different.

But without electricity how would your water pump run when you are out of water pressure? and if you were in a neighborhood with city water i would drain the pipes and use a faucet in the basement with a drain to keep the water moving instead of having faucets running everywhere.

I am in complete agreement on this one.

If people exibited as much common sense doing other things as they do when they use their computer (not to mention when they call for help) then there would be many more issues with everyday things.

You would have people putting refrigerators in their house upside down and wonder why the ice maker doesn't work.
Try to cook something in a stove when the power is out at their house.
Drive on the left side of the road (in the US) because their driver seat is on the left and that makes sense.
i'm sure there are 1000+ more examples.

what has amazed me from the beginning of my support career is the fact that so many "smart" people just lose all common sense in front of a computer. I told a user to right-click on the desktop once, after a few minutes of frustrating conversation i figured out he had written "click" on a piece of paper on his desktop and that's why he was so infuriated with me. I've had other users who thought i could see their screen when i'm helping them setup a dial-up connection because i had done it 1000 times and i knew what the screens all looked like.

It's not that you're always fighting with users but they all have a similar lack of common sense when using a computer, i would never drive anywhere if everyone exibited the same lack of common sense on the road.

you keep saying that electric cars are the way with solar power...

But honestly until battery technology catches up with current hydrocarbon fuels in storage density it will never happen

I wouldn't buy an electric or even a hybrid because i drive 50 miles to work every day and 50 miles back on a highway. The best thing to drive is a regular car since a hybrid costs much more and burns the same amount of gas on a highway anyway. Plug-in electric car would maybe barely get me to work but then i have no charge and no where to plug it in.

You talk about building new infrastructure (solar plants) then moving to electric cars that would require new infrastructure to recharge on the go if you were to take a long trip or vacation somewhere.

Can't you just accept that this Swift Fuel is at least a damn good interim step to getting to your magical electrical world? And if everyone was to switch to electric vehicles wouldn't more fossil fuels be burned in power stations till your distributed grid solar power plants get built