The bow (before it became associated with totalitarian/monarchial government) is shown as a sign of respect. And I only bow in that context - if someone does something I respect, I bow. In that vein, if someone makes a program (or even an OS) I like, I bow.

So stop trying to change the definition to "On one's knees, moving their torso towards the ground and back with hands straight up repeatedly."

I have a gut feeling that tomatoes are inspected and cared for a lot more than tobacco is. Mostly because more people consume tomatoes and tomato products than tobacco and tobacco products anyway

Play Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and say that again. Trust me, with Num Lock on, the numpad won't be able to control units, meaning you'll have to remember which of the Ins/Del/etc keys control the diagonal moves. I doubt it's the only program that does this, but it's the only one I can think of.

I prefer using Shift over Caps Lock for any LONG STRING OF CAPITALS IN ANY CONTEXT. So on my laptop I told KDE to turn Caps Lock into a "Compose" key (where <caps>a" gives me ä...or maybe it's "a. I'm on Windows, which only has US International keyboard mappings and no Compose key settings so I can't remember).

I'd rather have a dedicated compose key than a Caps Lock key. However, the mechanical Shift Lock previously mentioned as well as a dedicated Compose key sounds like a good idea.

or press i in Vim instead of Insert if that's really a problem.

I've only run into it with one game. And that was because the game itself was broken - not Steam.

I will say that of all the DRMs I've ever had to deal with, Steam has been least annoying. Sure, the client itself has a slight case of Downs, but once you have the game installed and a desktop or Start menu shortcut (or however Wine would translate that in your case), the most you'd see out of the actual client is "Preparing to Launch" and "Oh! There's an update!". Once you're [b]in[/b] the game, the game itself will work perfectly most of the time. And in cases where it doesn't (not often but it happens) it offers a few tools if it's the game itself, and mostly painless remedies for when it's Steam.

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And 21.36% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

I can probably see why people would like this, but it seems like a long shot to me

I do not think that word means what you think it means

..."It all comes back to me as I piss into the wind."

Wild Goatse appears!

I got my kerosene powered toaster running Arch once.

If high school biology has taught me as well as I think it has*, then it isn't the species that passes or fails. It's the gene.

*Keep in mind I went to public school