No, they were scene enthusiasts. They're not even "pirates", they are probably the most avid content consumers around. Do your homework.

No. I am every chemical in my body, I am the circuitry of my brain. If it happened in my brain, then it was I who had that thought. A drug or even circuit cannot think, it needs to be in the context of a brain and thus it gains personality.

By your logic I should have no self respect because I know that it was my genes that created my brain. So even if I win the Nobel prize, under the influence of my genes, I should go, "oh no it wasn't me really thank my parents for fucking".

But of course I don't think that. My intimate self is a function of the goo in my skull. I can change my mind about politics, I can change my mind about which songs I like, I can change my mind about who I love or what I want to do with my life. This is a necessary and natural process. If I could engineer my brain to be able to actually comprehend numbers larger than "a shitload" (more than say eighty), I would. My intimate self would not mind because it actually delights in progress.

This is avant-garde science. I think the front page is exactly where it belongs.

What was he supposed to do? Say "it's not my laptop"? Or say nothing, just grab it and leave?

I agree with you about the police though.

...once and for all! An attractive girl (or boy) that can lure you away from online flamewars. Mine just did.

OK kids, KDE 4 may be improving slowly, but it's great potential is still there. KDE 3 is still a great desktop environment. And this is the beauty of choice! If you're not happy with the programs you use you can just switch to something that suits you better. And you can use a lot of foul language in the process without hurting more than the morale of the programmers that give you that choice. Great.

Your room might be hotter than the rest of the apartment because your computer is on 24/7. At least that's my problem. :)

In the city you are trapped below low ceilings, and the sky itself feels infinitely much "lower" than it does outside of the city. You don't realize that if you live in a city and seldom spend nights far, far away from light sources like neighboring settlements with streetlights.

But when you get away from those places the effect is incredible. Suddenly you see too many stars to count. You see the spirals of the Milky way clearly, so dense that you can hardly tell where one star of our galaxy begins and another ends. Just look at the sky for ten minutes and you will most probably see at least one shooting star, if not several.

And if you are captivated by the night sky in the way you ought to be, when you finally pull your head down to go about your business, you will experience that the moon and the stars actually light up the contours of the objects around you and on the ground sufficiently. The beauty of this is enough to drive me away from cities. I can't stand them.

The Mozilla team has always had a very clear vision of what they wanted Firefox to be. Other projects have different visions, that's why open source is so powerful. But of course, some haters will say that "segmentation is disastrous", call for a unified Linux distro, a single open source browser to rule them all, and so on.

I don't agree. Choice is good. It forces people to think for themselves, even people that aren't nerds. Chrome has already added some new ideas into the browser market, and it has provided a good alternative to some people that wanted speed (formerly Operas throne) and simplicity (formerly Firefox's) and could do without some extensions for now.

Chrome is being developed for Linux too. Even if I understand the frustration that it isn't already on the Linux platform I can't understand why it isn't obvious to everyone why Google released it for Windows first and puts its focus there. It's called market share. It's a no brainer.