Yes, there has been some performance improvements this round. Hopefully next round we will focus on other performance and memory related issues.

Maybe if they voted in people who invest in government to make it better instead of ideology backed people who break govt on purpose then turn around and say "See! See, government doesn't work"

Well said. Ideas are meant to be challenged. I feel that these days that they are not challenged and everything has turned into sacred cows. More than that, people are making a profit off of myopic short-sightedness.

In the end, they lost and their ideology died with them to be resurrected in the here and now.

Sigh. The reason they are probably "creating" an OS is to control the user experience and leveraging it from Ubuntu which is right now the most popular distro by far. The OS could then be crafted to be optimized to have drivers that work with the hardware on their systems. The whole thing is to make sure that supportability is scalable by being a gatekeeper. When you're going out on a limb and giving a product with an OS that is not mainstream, you need to curate it properly otherwise people won't buy your product.

Good point...but eventually something really nasty is going to come and when it starts really threatening national security (or with this presidency, Trump;s businesses) then you might see some action.

But you are completely right, Congress has been obsessed with stopping Obama at every turn, throwing up roadblocks in every way.

This is not a way to run a country. Even with government under one party, they still can't figure out how to pass a federal funding bill.

They'd be made because someone else not only making it money but turned into a cult franchise ala Star Trek. That would trigger some butthurt feelings.

They should do a Firefly spinoff or actually do Firefly and then make it one of the most successful blockbuster shows in the 'verse.

Right, but the market can't stand a vacuum so instead rent-a-terrorists will be a thing and muslims can hire those guys to do all the terrorist actions. Capitalism, bitches.

Never mind there will likely be corruption and will have several "holes" for immigrants to pass through. After all, we always need a bogey man of some sort to point the finger at.

Also never mind that we never addressed why we need undocumented labor in the first place. The cost of food will go up likely. At some point the federal govt will have to subsidize food in order to make it affordable for middle and lower class citizens (for political reasons of course, you have to at least look like you're helping).

Maybe you shouldn't start wars with 3 trillion dollar price tags and then get nothing out of it? Nobody seemed to be worried about the budget then? Also Republicans believe in deficit spending anyways.

You have much more chance of the Chinese taking over than Muslims. They've already got their fingers all over Africa. When labor finally shifts to Africa, China will be ready. If we lose our trading partner, Mexico, China will be there. You know what the Muslims will be doing? Too busy fighting among themselves trying to determine who the real Muslim is. They are a collective nation of despots whose glory days are past them. We don't have anything to worry about them. The number of deaths blamed on terrorists on U.S. soil in the past 50 years is still less than how many get killed in car accidents in North America.

I don't mean to disrespect Muslims, who have had a profound effect on science and mathematics. But things went to hell as soon as they abandoned intellectualism and embraced a society that no longer valued those things. Manipulated by despots and foreign nations, oil has cursed them and it seems only religion is their only recourse. We seem to be headed in the same direction.

Only if there are regulations and laws in place that you can base a lawsuit on. If there aren't any then those lawsuits will be much harder to come by.

So a Michael Bay production?

Yet, they voted this party back into power after 8 years of growing prosperity in a number of sectors. Despite the huge clusterfuck that happened at the end of the Bush presidency, the huge deficit, the wars... and the fact that a major terrorist attack happened on a Republican's watch. It seems that voters are extremely capricious about how to punish a party if they can come back within a couple of years. It seems that things should completely fall apart and those older voters who are still fighting the culture wars pass on to their heavenly awards before we are going to get anywhere.