205 in Fedora and 54 (according to Win7 task manager processes tab) in the VM. But that doesn't count the MySQL, MythTV, Apache I have running on another box.

In the 1700s, there were no terrorists flying planes into buildings. Therefore, your right to not be searched unreasonably needs to be removed because if the founding fathers had this "threat" they would have taken it into consideration.

true.

There were terrorists burning your outlying farm-stead. Perhaps you'd be one of the lucky ones the immigrants were using to demonstrate the benefits of "co-habitation". Those were ugly. I can't even begin to tell you about that without a graphics warning.

Or you could be a beneficiary of a wave of "consultants" from the germanies.

Total dead: something like 20% failure rate for pioneers (yeah, by failure I mean death). I doubt you could find a contiguous geographic location that had 20% of it's populace affected by the deaths from the Twin Towers insurgency.

We can affect our environment more drastically than could they but our basic interactions have not changed.

Our Fathers had experienced Threat in a way you can only piss close to. You ill-informed, self-righteous, arrogant, ineffective little gnat.

You think them so stupid that they had not considered how not so long ago the sword was the emminent weapon and how accurate and long-range projectile weapons had changed their world?! These were educated people!

Seriously?!~

Please think through it again. They lived at a time when their environment, their world, was far more volatile than ours (USA). They had experienced technological invention and industrial expansion as well as actual battle on their homesteads, towns, and properties. They had had to fight, literally actually to fight, for everything that was theirs.

And, that Patriotism and effort in an inimical world held on throughout exterior threats (1812, Mexican/American, etc.) well into the new century.

The one thing in this story about which our Founders probably were unprepared would be the our (USA-All) unconcern.

You cite the 2nd amendment and say "I should be unrestricted in my ability to own and carry a handgun", but the guy down the street cites the 2nd amendment and says "I should be unrestricted in my ability to own and carry chemical weapons". If that's not a compelling argument for interpretation, then I don't know what is.

Or perhaps at that time it was thought that people should be unrestricted. Perhaps the general attitude was that with everything considered, a normal society (regulated militia) could require the assistance or intervention from an Civic Populace (The People).

At the least I'd say your case for impelling interpretation remains weak.

this is a High School not a Geek School.

Very hard to find accounting programs that do not require Windows OS.

The point's already been made that Google probably uses Enterprise level software but to the statement that windows dominates (pardon my paraphrasing) here's a useful list. Even in the Free/OSS category there are a number of mid-market offerings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_accounting_software#Free_and_open_source_software

note that this wiki entry needs some eyes so it seemed worthwhile posting OT. ;)

this gives a whole new aspect to the House-of-Mirrors. Gawd! I want to be a kid again....

the mouse wheel should be intercepted by the window under the mouse. I've gotten so used to that in Gnome that I curse Windows daily for the lack.

the scenario of the puppets where the middle puppet passes candy to each of two others and one of those keeps the candy but the other passes it back. then the baby is faced with those two having a pile of resources and is given the instruction to take a piece of it - an immoral act all of its own.

My conjecture would be that the baby which smacked the offending puppet was acting selfishly to prevent an obvious enemy from stealing from him or her in the future.

The baby obviously didn't have a problem with the act of absconding with somebody else's "stuff" or it would have objected on principle in some way or hesitating.

Too often we see what we want to see.

Too many of one thing and a general unrealistic expectations?

That's a bubble.

I used chrome for several days but went back to firefox because I hated having the tabs at the top.