From one way of thinking, Debian is Ubuntu stripped down in one specific way. If you don't want Ubuntu stripped down in that specific way, then you're possibly better off stripping down Ubuntu to what you want, rather than trying to add to Debian (and probably prune other things from Debian that you didn't want anyways).

Yeah, as though somehow by having a "statement" of your "mission" prevents you from acting differently...

They'd never make it through the approval process.

I don't know what authentication mechanisms they have in place to make sure you are who you say you are, but if you can get the assistance of a male friend, I can't imagine they'd be too hard to circumvent.

PS. Hopefully you use a handle a little less obvious there than you do here :P

No, blasting through red lights like they're not there should be banned. Fortunately, it is. That's his entire point.

As far as not being smart enough to multitask goes, why is it that everyone insists on a least common denominator society? How about we just put into place a system whereby we punish people for doing bad things, and leave them alone until they do bad things? Would that be so awful?

For some reason, we really have some love affair with convicting people before they do anything wrong or harmful. That is, in essence, what you are doing any time you ban something outright. You've made them legally guilty of... not harming anyone yet. BUT THEY COULD!!! Just like them durn t'rrists could crash more of our planes into our buildings, so we criminally convict anyone who brings nailclippers onto an airplane. Again, let's go back to having laws exist so that when people do bad things, they can be brought to justice. The government can never put in place enough safeguards to preemptively protect us, without turning into a police-state such as the world has never (as far as I know) seen. So let's just abandon that pursuit altogether. There will be some inevitable deaths, and those are extremely regrettable, but a price has to be paid for freedom, and not in the form of soldiers dying halfway across the world. Some citizens will have to die for their freedom too. The world ain't perfect.

I guess we all know what Gizmodo will be doing at the next major conference.

So your contention is that we should send a humanoid robot to the moon, because hand tools have been developed to fit the human form? Got news for you buddy, this robot isn't going up there with a Ryobi power drill and a Craftsman toolbox. Your arguments might have merit if it was a discussion of sending humans versus sending rovers, but it's not. It's about sending a bi-pedal robot versus sending a rover.
No matter what we send up there, it will NOT be re-using all these technologies that you point to as having been designed around the human form. It will have a few dedicated appendages.
I can't decide if you're a troll or not, but the debate here is about method of locomotion. The chassis we put our probes in isn't the point. Whether it's humanoid, a rover, or shaped like a box, the significant differentiating factor is how it gets around. Look at the state of humanoid robots here on earth. What makes you think they'd work any better on a relatively uncontrolled, chaotic surface like the moon's? Guess what? The moon isn't going to have even floors and nice staircases!

Let's not forget about the printed booklet (which is vastly expensive if you listen to ubisoft), the box it's held in, the plastic wrap around that box, the cost of loading it onto a truck, moving said truck halfway across the US, unloading it from the truck again, and getting some highschool monkey to put it on the shelves. The shelf space itself may cost money too.

It's still bullshit that physical games cost so much, but that doesn't mean there are no costs involved with producing them.

Mkay Mr. Troll. Here's how the PS3 is so "inefficient": It has games that offer dozens (perhaps hundreds) of hours of visually rich, unique content. Oddly enough, you need gigs and gigs of textures and sounds and movies to achieve this. Not everyone has game tastes that stop at Wii Tennis, with its grand total of 2 textures.

No I wouldn't. People only whine about franchise milking when they're secretly not getting what they wanted. Nobody complains about getting what they want. The "franchise milk" people are the ones who are pissed off because they didn't get what they wanted, can't put their finger on why, and want something to bitch about.

Probably a combination of not having to pay for the fan-made remake, nostalgia from when we played these games as children, and delight at seeing a long-dead game formula we loved revived. Try getting a good adventure game like the old Lucasarts point-and-click adventures. It's not EA or Activision stepping in to give us what we want. It's the indies. That's why people love indies.

And subsequently lose potential searchers to Bing or Yahoo because they couldn't find what the wanted to find on Google? Uhhhhh, let's just stick with items #1 and #4.

It was never meant to be a win for performance o.O Of course it's going to be slower. The cryptographic checks alone will make it slower. It's intended to prevent DNS hijacking attacks.

yeah if you don't mind google knowing every hostname you ever resolve...

One instance != "well established"