I stand corrected. US Military spending is indeed closely behind welfare and not insignificant. Thank you.

Moon's gravity is much less than that of Earth. However, it is sufficiently large that a maniac will have to throw the rock at a velocity of 2 km/s. Not to mention that orbital mechanics is sufficiently counter-intuitive, to make calculation of a trajectory quite non-trivial.

Long story short, that maniac would need to involve quite a significant amount of other similarly-minded maniacs to be successful. And considering how Earth would be a source of quite a few necessities of living on the Moon, that is rather unlikely.

In summary, it is unfortunately not (yet) the time for panicking and end-of-the-world sex. You are better off worrying about more mundane catastrophes: Like slipping in a shower.

Unfortunately it is not that easy. Plants require oxygen as well. Not as much as animals, but still not negligible.

Also plants require nutrients in the soil and water: Neither is readily available even if you have Earth-level atmosphere pressure of carbon dioxide.

Majority of the tax dollars is being spent on welfare. Military spending is minor in comparison.

I heard chicken eggs being reffered to in another delicious way:

Chicken periods.

Yuummmm...

Do you want it blown again?

It is object-oriented now!

COBOL

Good to see that I am not alone in my admiration of Advantage series. Love the keyboard, except for those horrible rubber function keys.

If you are not a touch-typist do not get an Advantage keyboard. You will suffer gretly as that keyboard angles and layout will make your hunt-and-peck extraordinarily more difficult. Also Advantage is quite an expensive options with $300 pricetag. Adaptation period is at least two weeks as well. Also it is only manufactured in the USA and Kinesis does not provide shipping to other countries, so you may pay even more to get one from a reseller (Here in Australia I paid $400 for mine).

I would reccomend Microsoft Natural series if you want a split layout without the extremety and not breaking the budget.

All that negativity being said, once you get comfortable with Kinesis Advantage, it is just a pure joy to use (Except function keys :-P). If you have RSI definitely give it a try, pricetag be damned. If you possibly can, go to a shop that stocks it and try it out. You will either fall madly in love with it or decide it is too extreme.

I would love to have a Kinesis Advantage with durability and buckling springs of Model M.

Advantage got such a good layout, but the rubber function keys are just garbage!!!

Why is it so many people see humans as not part of nature?

If we build a dam, we are damaging the ecology. If a family of beavers build a dam, it is all natural. If we grow a cow and slaughter it in a slaughterhouse, it is barbaric and unnatural. Yet when a lioness brings down a buffalo that is all fine and part of the circle of life. Why is a piece of plastic artificial, but a piece of wood carved by a beaver is not?

In my opinion humans are animals that change their environment around them to suit their needs. Just like a bird that makes a nest to care and protect its young. A city is much more comfortable for us than a forest. An airplane is a tool to get around just like a spider that builds a sail out of a web to use wind to get across a river.

Yes, we are VERY good at what we do. With our usurpassed intelligence and social hierarchies we have tames the most hostile of environments. All this "destruction" you accuse humanity of is just nature rearanging itself to another state.

I am very happy with rectangular shape of the screen. It is very intuitive and practical. GUI windows are rectangular after all.

What shape would you like your screen if you had a chance to customize?

To be fair that is quite terror inducing. I have just pictured Osama wearing nothing but women's underwear waiting in a security line. Pass the mind bleach please. Everyone within sight range will be traumatised for life!

A bomb is much more humane.

I believe Sparta predated England in that regard. Women there had ownership of land and had quite a bit of influence while the men were in their constant war training.

Of course, I consider Greece to be a Western nation, but that point might be debatable.

Please not another rewrite! 1.6 to 1.7 took 12 years!!!

It did not help that instead of using other common libraries they had implemented their own from scratch (EFL).

What E needs is to work on stability: It is the only desktop environment that crashes. Sure it is very fast and seamless at restarting right away, but it shouldn't crash in the first place!

Grab popcorn, go to one of the systemd-related stories and watch them tear each other to pieces.

Who said /. is not entertaining?

Linux's primary market share is on servers. Thus the distributions should focus on server usage first and desktop users second. There are hardly any of the later when compared with a former.

If you want to run Linux on a desktop, you should jump through extra hoops to install systemd on your machine, because you are a minority. In practice, there should be different distribution based on the server and desktop.

Alas this will cause more fragmentation, but as we spoke about this before, some people do not see this as a problem.