Why would anyone use GMail for handling the mail of his/her own domain? Ever heard of an email client? And regarding the original question, what's the problem? Why don't you just delete the mail? Do you get something like 400 mails per day meant for another person that you cannot filter out?

For example, I'm sometimes programming in Ada, which clang doesn't really compile (at least when I looked last time). Moreover, gcc with -O2 or -O3 produces faster executables on my machine.

As an owner of a refurbished Thinkpad - from a German reseller of used laptops, not the company mentioned in the story - I can assure you that any old Thinkpad with GNU/Linux just works. Older Thinkpads are among the laptops with the best Linux support you can find. I use mine every day for 8 hours for years (and before that I used another old Thinkpad for years).

Regarding the other thing you mention, to be honest I have to admit that I have no idea what "value added" means. I've heard it occasionally but always though it was more like a meaningless buzzword or (worse) a synonym for pre-installed bloatware. What does it mean?

Ehm...the US has different parts with different local laws. You didn't know that?

Jesus Christ, take it easy, man. I was making a harmless joke that anyone who was ever forced to watch boring holiday slideshows would be able to understand. Now I'm being accused of mental health issues, not being able to procreate and whatever else.

If hundreds of thousands of family pictures doesn't seem a bit excessive to you, so be it. After all, it takes only a few weeks to sort through them. But please calm down a little and stop spamming AC troll posts.

Yes, you've got to save them! Your children will be so thankful for countless extended family diashow evenings!

"Look, here is little Tim vomiting when he was 12 years old! How sweet! -- Another vomiting picture. -- Another one. -- I'll skip the next 11 images, still 12,371 to go after all..."

Well, apparently you never used the Plus4, in comparison to which the C128 looked like a nicely crafted supercomputer.

I am a positive atheist. To me personally the first four are slightly annoying (aggressive and discriminating other religions), the seventh is plain ridiculous, and the tenth unneccessary.

But yeah, I'm not offended by a monument with them. I can imagine worse kind of monuments, and in a place where many people are Christians, why not? I'd put a statue of Charles Darwin right next to it, though, just to set things straight.

Also, it's a no brainer: They cannot form any effective alliance against the NSA, just as U.S. companies cannot form a (functional and legal) alliance against, say, the IRS or the U.S. Customs and Border Protection. It doesn't make sense.

Isn't that testable? Set up two identical browsers on two geographically close machines, make them perform a series of differing and clearly biased searches (e.g. about a political topic or shopping preference) and compare the results of one and the same query from both machines after a few days or weeks.

I was hoping somebody did that already...