I also moved from Ubuntu to Debian.
For me it was that I prefer Gnome Shell to Unity.

I did try installing Gnome on Ubuntu, and then the Ubuntu Gnome variation (or whatever it's called), but in both cases I had the impression that the integration was a bit wonky. You'd have a mixture of Ubuntu and Gnome apps which supposedly did the same things, but in subtle different ways. Like the "Online Accounts" thing in the settings.

Anyway, I decided to try Debian and was surprised to see that not only Gnome had a much saner default configuration, but the system itself was also a lot more stable - I've always had small problems with my laptop under Linux, which I consider my own fault - I'm never buying Sony again!

What's the point of wearable technology if you put it away whenever you're not using it?

That'd be like saying "if you're not telling the time, why would you wear a watch on your wrist?"

I'd be happy if I could at least get a system which drives itself on highways. The majority of time spent in my vehicle on long trips is on the highway anyway - if I could drop the wheel during that time to do something more meaningful, I'd take it in a heartbeat.

I've recently installed a cruise control system on my car, and it was one of the best purchases I've ever done. Worrying about the speed you're driving seems to be a small matter until you try cruise control. Then you realise how much more relaxing driving long distances is.

The one thing I wish is that the cruise control know the distance to the car in front of me, and automatically adjust my speed if the other guy is going slower, to keep a safe distance. This type of technology is already common on expensive cars for automatic braking.

Then I guess the next step would be if it would "see" the lane lines and adjust the steering wheel to always keep me in the centre of the lane. The sensors for this also exist already on expensive cars to warn you when you start drifting outside of the road.

This is the path I always envisioned towards eventual fully autonomous cars, but it seems most projects I've seen are trying to go for the full monty. I wonder if there's a reason for that.

I have an easier and cheaper fix:
1. Don't buy the XBox One

I've seen this workflow enforced on git-only environments by making the "master" git repository reject merges.
This forces developers to rebase their changes on the top of the master branch before pushing and at least for us it was working quite well.

I'm not familiar with git-svn, but I thought it was a kind of stop-gap solution for SVN devs who didn't want to switch with the project.
I'd be wary of using two source control mechanisms simultaneously as a permanent solution.

Care to expand on that?
I recently moved from Ubuntu to Debian and am finding the font rendering to be a bit worse in the Debian configuration (unlike everything else - Debian is just great, and stable as a rock).
I've tried changing the system fonts and while it helped a bit, there are still things that bother me.

Perhaps nobody wants to take up that debate because you obviously have a political axe to grind.
I have my own opinion on the use of tax dollars here, but I don't want to get into it because I know it'll turn into a never ending discussion on politics.

I have better stuff to do with my time, and I do not live or pay taxes in the US, so I don't think my opinion is too relevant here anyway.

But good luck finding someone who will debate you though.

Tesla Motors is a publicly traded company. You're welcome to go over their numbers if you'd like.
Unless you want to claim they're lying in their financial reports, in which case you can report them to the proper authorities.

That's not entirely true.
According to Wikipedia:

In fairness, they can't produce enough of the things to match demand.
That has to say something to their product.

The question is: if they were able to match demand, would they make a profit?
If so, then the fact that they're already cash-positive (if artificially), means they have a viable long-term future.

Not if your profile isn't public

Two different things. Once you're using social networking services, you've already gone through the "why" and the tradeoffs involved in questions of privacy, self-hosting, using other platforms, etc.
You're already using social networking for whatever reason, so why not try to mitigate your exposure at essentially zero cost (as I said, nobody's going to see your old posts anyway, and most of them are just useless fluff like "great weather today").

Like you, I also keep my interactions on FB and G+ minimal, but my proposal stands regardless of level of usage.
It's actually easier for me to go back in history and delete everything exactly because I've so few posts there, but for someone more prolific, it'd be a hassle.

Possibly - we all assume that, but we don't really know. Perhaps it gets deleted in time. Perhaps in certain jurisdictions they are forced to really delete it.

The point remains that even if the data is still available to the service itself, at least it becomes unavailable for everybody else
Something is better than nothing.

I've often wondered about deleting all of my social networking messages older than [$time_frame], say 6 months.
Social networking like Twitter and Facebook is usually very time-critical: you post something relevant for the moment, but that doesn't really make sense to store for very long (unlike, say, a blog post).
After a few days your post will be so far down your contacts' streams that it will probably never be seen again by a human anyway.

So why leave it up for machines to harvest your data? Why keep posts you did when you were younger and which could possibly be embarrassing later? Why leave open the possibility that through some security failure or site policy change your data suddenly becomes public?

The problem is doing the deleting itself. Going over each post and deleting them manually is a bore.
Facebook, G+ and Twitter are obviously not going to help you automate it -- they'd rather keep your data.
What we need is plugin or site like http://www.deleteallmytweets.com/ but which has a cutoff point instead of simply deleting everything. I wonder how long such a site would survive, particularly if it became popular.

Then there's the question if you'd trust a third party with that amount of access to your profile.

I also bought a second one after the first one RROD'd.

It's not about being "extremely loyal" as you put it, it's about being pragmatic:
- I still want to play games on a console, so I'd have to either fix it or buy a new one
- Fixing the old Xbox would cost about as much as a new one, and the new one is simply better (quieter, extra controller, lower energy, wifi, larger HD, etc)
- I have a game library which I'd like to be able to replay
- I can use my old controller

Honestly I've always preferred the Playstation, but I won the Xbox in a contest a few years ago, and it made no sense to go out and spend extra money on a console which is essentially the same.
For the next generation it'll be a PS for me. Either that or a box running Linux+Steam connected to the TV.

As for your friend breaking 12 Xboxes, that's really too much. I wouldn't lend him anything if I were you.