Even if medicine could keep me alive that long, I'd rather just live a normal lifespan and make space for my sons.

I guess lp -n 15 quiz*.doc would have been enough.

...most of the times, it's the Open Source job that will look for you. Create or join interesting projects. Let you skills shine. If you're good, someone will ask you if you're interested in applying for a job with them.

Honestly, I never even thought of Megaupload-like sites as "file sharing". If that's file sharing, then every website is sharing with you lots of html, css and image files. I'd rather call that "File publishing". You upload a file to a server which is then published to the world. "File sharing" to me implies some form of P2P technology where users literally share local files and bandwidth with other member of a network.

Also it's a fact that many authors today create music not as nearly sophisticated as Brahms'. So there is hope that Brahms and other musical giants like him would have thought otherwise about copyright.

Rather then a conspiracy I interpret the US invasion of oil-rich countries as a kind of "blackmail" for other global competitors like China. Something like: "Hey guys, we control most of the oil. Let's sit and discuss it over."

Wikipedia could stick to PHP or switch to any other language. But that's not their problem. Their problem is the messy markup language they slowly created. I know cause once I tried to render their markup inside another app. Basically, they have all sorts of tags that reference obscure server-side behaviour and everything is so entangled that creating a new renderer is basically impossible. This is sad because they are wasting the work of volunteers.

Have a look at Tranquil fanless PCs. I'm a happy customer, I honestly recommend them. http://www.tranquilpcshop.co.uk/

Of course you can, it's called State capitalism and it is what the the USSR and other so-called "real socialist" economies were all about.

http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/leaks/Anti-Counterfeiting%20Trade%20Agreement.pdf
The most important part is Section 5: "Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in the Digital Environment" at page 15

this song by Rise Against actually says "they pissed in his hands". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DboMAghWcA

I see it as a very positive development. Ubuntu is just a sugar coated Debian. Most of vanilla Debian is still there, from command line utilities, configuration files and GUI toolkits (GTK+, Qt). If the Ubuntu tablet preserves this, it would be light years ahead Android in terms of bringing the "Free Sotware" ecosystem to a mobile device.

That's because software *is* the description of what the computer should do. Check this great article: http://www.osnews.com/story/22135/The_Problem_with_Design_and_Implementation

If they bought the company they are now the copyright holders and can do whatever they like with their software, including dropping the GPL version.

It's very simple. With CLI you do stuff that cannot be done (easily) with a GUI. Ever used rsync, grep, find or sed? If not, you probably don't really *work* with computers.