I know what they say about assuming, but I assume you mean that 20-40% of low income voters would vote Republican. I'm not familiar with minor US parties (my excuse: not living in the US) but surely there are other parties that they could be voting for, like a socialist party that would at least seem like a better option for poor voters?

NoScript helps with this, it gives an ABE (application boundary enforcement) error.

ABE and some other features such as clickjacking protection also work if you've set it to allow scripts globally; this is how I've configured it on my parents' computer. It helps that my mother understands hardly any English, so I told her to close the browser if any foreign language messages popped up. No problems so far... *knocks on wood* :-)

You're correct of course, nothing on Earth really matters. We all will die eventually and the whole universe may (will?) be gone one day. Luckily I can mostly forget that and get excited about little things that don't really matter.

As much as I'd like to see GNU/Linux succeed on the desktop, my experience has been similar. How much of it is X's fault though, that I don't know. My guess is not much actually, but I'm curious if anyone knows better.

I don't understand where the fear of computers comes from. I would expect anyone who is comfortable driving a car at high speeds to have no trouble operating a small machine that doesn't have the potential to kill bystanders if your concentration lapses.

Your finger needs to slip quite a few times to add the --no-preserve-root to that command (it might be GNU coreutils exclusive though). :)

I've clicked the wrong button on a GUI several times, just as I've made typos on the command line. Both have the potential to screw things up unless I'm being careful.

Just like you might confuse the icon representing yyymy with yymyy.

Driving the kids to some place around the corner while they watch movies on iPads. Sounds so stereotypically American that it's funny!

Also it somehow makes me feel kinda old and I'm only 31...

I wonder if it's a settings issue (which would make it PEBKAC) but on my computer Windows 8 is more responsive than the latest version of Linux Mint I tried was (fairly sure it was version 14). The much-hated start screen appears instantly after pressing the super key, while there's a tiny but still noticeable delay until the Cinnamon start menu appears. Firefox also runs smoother on Windows than Linux in my experience.

There are many valid complaints to be made of Windows 8, but responsiveness is not one of its issues.

Could you give an example of a feature that you (or your business) would consider big and important enough to upgrade?
And if you remember could you tell which XP feature was the Big One that made you upgrade from Windows 2000 (unless you were running something else before and XP was merely the standard choice at the time you bought the machines).

(I might sound like I'm just arguing, but I'm genuinely curious.)

I'm sorry but this really looked like a Mycleanpc spam at first glance :)

I don't know about Python either, although I've been wanting to get into it. Of course, I wouldn't apply for a Python job in the first place. On the other hand I'm sure I've missed job opportunities sometimes because I tend to underestimate my abilities and only apply if I'm sure I can do the job, unlike those people i kan reed was talking about earlier.

Yes, that makes sense. But all that is orders of magnitude more complex than the FizzBuzz program, which merely requires that one is familiar with a loop and the modulo operation. So I think the parent's question still stands.