well, you prebuild for the base that needs prebuilds the most. Can you obtain the source for the same version in your linux flavor?

well, when you have a crap house, you build upon that crap house with crap sites. It is easier to build security on crap that you currently know than crap that you are unfamiliar with. IE 7,8,9 isn't as upgradable because it may break their security and their sites.

as a programmer, I stuck to XP because .NET 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, and 4.0 all worked well enough on it. only reason to upgrade to win7 was to switch off 32 bit machines and thus avoiding the y2k38 bug and to access certain programming tools only offered on 64 bit machines (from a programming point of view). Security is another reason, but I am not talking about that.

when I read First... I see "Trolled First"

Guano... *shivers like Ace Ventura at the thought of bats*

*waves Jedi hand*
These aren't the droids you're looking for.

These aren't the droids you're looking for.

that (getting rid of the "search everybody" TSA) I can get behind. I guess I misread it.

it is the reality we live in. you stand up for your constitutional right, and you will be pushed down, this has been going on for the past 10 years (if not longer). slowly piece by piece, our rights are chipped away. We agree to this in the ability to get the services we have created.

bubbah! grab my tin hat, we've got some ideas to share!

if the program is taxed, they will pass the "savings" onto the travelers.

Tax the Traveler or Tax society, when the state/country is in debt, how would you prefer to pay off the debt?

In Capitalism America, You get raped (either fiscally or physically from TSA).

pre-register to get a discount in ticket, cheaper parking, move through the terminal faster, and go back to 1990's type of travel. if you forget one part, you have to live in the 2000's and deal with extensive pat-downs (not in the good way), your child molested by the TSA, and if you argue, you are arrested.

in the parent thread's case, I doubt it.