He's assuming the energy required to create the building and equipment that made up the factory that made the solar panel is included in the solar panel's cost, and that they only sold one solar panel before going out of business. In a practical sense, he may be more right than wrong, but its definitely a contrived argument.

I choose the side of NOT systemd. I was not terribly impressed with upstart either. While we're at it, some may find it tangential at best, but I am also fundamentally opposed to pulseaudio. Linux has a lot of problems barring its universal adoption for both the desktop and the server market, but all of these things share the dubious quality of possibly theoretically solving a few niche annoyances (that can mostly also be labeled "user error" or "suboptimal default configuration") by sacrificing decades of tried-and-true field-tested methodologies, all the while introducing a whole slew of their own.

I hear a few sane distros are holding their ground in this regard. Slackware, Gentoo, maybe? Can anyone improve upon this list for me? I think its time the distros who sympathize actively with the "old guard" methodologies step forward and get more public about it. Many of us will be desperate to find a lifeboat, soon. I really was shocked to find out Debian was amongst the ones that "drank the koolaid."

Just FYI; you don't catch tuberculosis by petting them.

She told me she was a mermaid!!

Its called "setting a bad example." This got my little sister out of trouble almost every single time.

Sigh, but now that I test a few other videos I'd tested before there are some ads now, so I guess i'm just wrong and they simply originally didn't have ads. Nevermind me, sorry.

Its also worth noting, now that I understand where your actual concern lies, the ARM chip in the controller isn't actually used to decode video. The whole point of the custom 5ghz wireless connection from the main console is in fact so that it can stream full-framerate decoded video TO the screen on the controller, in case the console itself is not connected to an actual TV display directly (or if it is simply off - as it is designed to be optional for most purposes) though when you use the stock web browser to surf to typical flash websites, its common to see really badly written javascript-based browser detection erroneously misidentify you as a mobile platform based on browser/flash version. The YouTube app I suspect specifically exists to combat this issue. Some stuff *does* run almost entirely within the controller (the silly TVii app thing comes to mind) and it runs notably enough slower that its obvious its doing so. TVii however, does not carry video.

I think that in reference to my original post, I only regarded YouTube policy as relevant in to videos with ads attached by default, which I *do* get on my Linux box still when visiting youtube.com, just like on Windows. So far I have *not* found any ads on *any* videos through the Wii-U YouTube app, nor have I found any videos that will refuse to play on the Wii-U app that do play on the Linux box, even ones that show ads on the Linux box.

Sorry, I apologize for accusing you of phishing/malware distribution. Yes, it plays fine on the Wii-U stock YouTube app for me at least as of just now when I checked it. It also plays fine on my Linux box, in both cases with no ads. I can summarize from this that you can't conflate the Wii-U YouTube app's behavior with that of mobile devices, though I guess its technically unclear whether that is a hardware issue or a difference in YouTube policy at this point. (Note that despite alot of derisive commentary about the Wii-U performance capabilities floating around the internet, its NOT, technically, ARM hardware, which might pose actually different technical issues vs Android/iPhones)

I didn't check yet, but that video doesn't even show an ad on PC... most youtube videos in question with ads are the ones with copyrighted songs. You just spamming a malware-laden flash video or something?

Unavailability for using it offline is a valid point, however the former issue about videos "not being available on mobile" is not a problem while using the stock YouTube app. While its possible that is an issue that was fixed/patched more recently than I have tested, I suspect you're confusing the behavior of the stock Wii-U YouTube app with surfing to youtube.com directly with the stock Wii-U browser, which is problematic on any site requiring Flash versions later than about 7.x or 8.x - similar to the stock browser on the previous generation Wii.

Buy a Nintendo Wii-U and use the (stock) free YouTube app. As a bonus, you also get a Nintendo Wii-U.

Star Whales coming soon to a galaxy near you!!

That is a great question, though I suspect finding large deposits of easily mined and smelted lead could substitute for a larger reactor. The bigger question is generating enough oxygen, food and clean water for a crew big enough to maintain the reactor.

We have that capability now, technically. We just don't have the capability to get them back safely, or for that matter keep them alive there for very long.