Would July 14th be ok?

The breeze around your neck that you feel shouldn't worry you...

We had that "pull-down mirror" in our 2008 bottom-of-the-line Sienna. I called it the "bratfinder", at the time.

That's what strong encryption is for.

The strange thing is that I trust the Russkies more by now than I trust the US...

If someone told me that 30 years ago...

Considering who owns Mega, I wouldn't trust it further than I can throw that blob.

With MJ? Yeah. Sure. MDMA? Umm... maybe. Crack? No effin' way!

People who want to enjoy drugs are not necessarily insane...

I don't know why you have this weird agenda of insisting that any Linux on the desktop (that isn't ChromeOS) needs to remain a niche. You yourself cited FOSS desktop applications as something that people use, and that it doesn't matter what OS they use. It seems like either you're emotionally invested in being anti-Linux or you're just being difficult for the sake of it.

You have GIMP, LibreOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, Pidgin, Skype, Dropbox, VLC, Spotify, and an ever-increasing number of games offered through Steam. People who use those applications are not a 'niche'.

I don't know what your damage is, but you should get over yourself.

Well, to his credit, he was a pretty good actor. It's not his fault that the writers turned his character into an annoying little self-righteous, one dimensional sphincter.

To run a C64 emulator on a PC emulator on a Mac emulation on an Amiga of course. Duh.

Hand in your geek card on your way out.

I'm your shareholder. And I have a zero tolerance for drunk bozos who drive the company into the ground that I own.

Pack your shit and jump out the window. Without the usual parachute.

Which is a problem that isn't at all solved by using ChromeOS or Android.

Just to have something pre-installed on the computer that the manufacturer has enough control over to make sure there are drivers for whatever hardware is attached. You're right that people care less and less about the OS itself, but there still needs to be an OS.

And again, it doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense to say, "Suggesting that people use Linux is dumb. They can just use Android or buy a Chromebook!" That's still Linux. If I want all the functionality of Chrome OS and a couple other more conventional applications (e.g. GIMP, LibreOffice), then it makes more sense to just install something more like Ubuntu. So the point is, it would be trivial for a company like HP to take Ubuntu, include drivers for their own hardware, and brand it however they want. If they buyer doesn't care about applications available exclusively for OSX/Windows, then it'll probably do everything they need.

That's something that nobody ever managed to answer me: What makes you think that a lot of people will start doing a drug just because it's legal. Why would someone go "Gee, it's Tuesday and colder than outside, I'm gonna try Crack"?

Would you?

Then why do you think others would?

There is a difference between the various substances and how they're perceived. All misinformation included, there are certain "absolutes". Seeking the thrill is something you'll do with stuff like psychedelics and stimulants. MJ, MDMA, LSD, various othre three-to-six-letter chemicals. Sure, some say they're harmful, some say they might be dangerous, but "I know what I'm doing".

Crack and Heroin or insane shit like Krok is a different matter. You don't reach for that for a thrill. When you're going down that road, you know that you don't come back. And you really don't plan to.

Sorry, I have my principles. I don't eat what I fuck.