You make it sound like Larry will service his honourable justice by giving him a BJ

oh lord this reminds me of a phone call I had this morning with an 80+ yo customer (helping with his connectivity), of Austrian or German descent, Helmut von something or other,

Me, speaking slowly and articulating each word, after spending a long time explaining what a web browser is, "ok sir, now that you have entered the website address, please press the enter key."

In a soft gurgling voice, he answered slowly, painfully, "urghalam, urs, ahh, ussh, ur, er, nein, , urgh, argh, ja, ok, no, I cannot see the enter key anywhere on the screen..."

At this point my toes curled in on themselves and I screamed silently, stomach contents churning in rancid, bubling acid.

Flicks fingers, "show me, bitch."

amen to that - we buy batches of ~20-50 at a time (seagate), and sure enough, at least 1 of them will have some kind of issue, if not outright fucked-upness.

/me sputters coffee on dual-head 27" LCDs

Yes, it is.

Sabre rattling.
Intimidation.
Politics.
Bargaining power.
My Cock Is Bigger Than Yours MotherFucker.
etc

the movie 2010 is where the Chinese made a mad dash to this area before the Americans and Russians

I'd love to see this happen in real life. Us westerners often need competition to really spur us on.

American Department of Homeland Security of America

That's beautiful man!

If that's the way you want it to work, then move to North Korea.

Which is precisely why it's a bad idea to introduce yet another inconsistent layout...

Sorry, but your post is so wrong on so many levels, it's actually quite funny, amazingly ignorant.

You sound like a typical windows user, frankly. Just change everything just for the sake of change... god almighty. What about continuity, evolution, incremental changes, stability? The world is full of horror stories about the many, many multi-million dollar "rewrites" committed by IT criminals - almost all of which end in failure, wasting tax payer or shareholder money.

What you find "silly", "fragmented", "arbitrarily", etc, others find eminently understandable, rely on and are thankful for. Thankfully, your kind will always have windows where you can screw around to your vacuous hearts content, trashing mindlessly as you go. For the educated and enlightened, there is UNIX.

So, please, get back to your real-world equivalence of windows, which is inbreeding with your momma behind the trailer outhouse.

The point is it might be on a separate filesystem. That's one of the many beauties of UNIX, it allows you that freedom.

Yes, for a second there I kept reading that they had tons of marsian minerals and soil...