This. It is rather ridiculous that people use these non recyclable "K-cups" instead of a french press or just a pot of coffee.
Billions of those cups, with the grounds still in them, filling up landfills, right when were trying to get away from crap like that.

1997 called, and they want their FUD back.

Hillary, you so funny...

Bingo!

How fast would his attitude towards surveillance change if were elected president?

I totally agree.
Q3 was a helluva way to spend an evening.
I think I'm getting talked back into playing it again...

Unlike music, video games have a much more fleeting popularity.
With that being said, I played the shit out of CS and Q3 Arena... Fun as hell.
The last video game I finished was the Mass Effect trilogy(brilliant)
I'm just surprised with how fast the video gaming landscape changes that there are still people doing CS.

I still think it's a great game!

People are still playing CS?

We can whip up a Windex frappe for you, and you can let us know how it tastes!

Ahhh, techniques that should be used.
That phrase is used quite a lot regarding anything to do human health and safety.
How often are those more conservative ways of making money used?

And people wonder why things like the FDA and OSHA exist.

Tinfoil Hats!

I couldn't agree more.

But you already new that.

To refresh your reading comprehension, what I said was, "Linux Mint was refreshing and met all my needs without problems."
That means that Mint was "pleasantly fresh and different". That means with after all the crap I put up with using Ubuntu Desktop(multiple versions) that when I tried Mint I was pleasantly surprised how good it works, and continue to be impressed to this day.

Regarding which distros to use, I did do quite a bit of research before trying Ubuntu Desktop, and I also tried about 3-4 others before Ubuntu. Like I said, I actually liked it but it had too many issues.

Also, I did do system optimization on Ubuntu to no avail. It was like I would fix one thing then something else would go wrong.
I work with computers all day long, and when I go home I don't want to have to constantly troubleshoot my media pc.

In the last year and a half I have tried several different Linux desktops to run on a small form factor Dell pc connected to my TV via HDMI.
I settled on Ubuntu for a variety of reasons and was reasonably pleased with it.
However, after a few weeks things started to go wrong.
Errors, lockups and other things cropped up that started to really get old.
I read forum posts, blogs, "kb" articles to fix the various issues I had with Ubuntu.

Eventually I wiped it and reloaded it, and the same sorts of problems came back.

I was ready to install Windows when I read someone mention Linux Mint.
So I gave that a try.

Like a cool spring breeze on a warm afternoon, Linux Mint was refreshing and met all my needs without problems.

To this day I wonder why Mint works so well when Ubuntu Desktop was such a POS.