I know you made this statement sarcastically but since you've referenced a very important and relevant point in history I'll mention for our younger readers that this is a popular paraphrase of a statement made by one Arnold Amaury during what has become now known broadly as "The Spanish Inquisition" when asked how he proposed they'd weed the heretics out of Béziers; his response was "Kill them all, God will know his own."

The chilling parallels between The Inquisition and the current comparatively passive-aggressive war on freedom of information ought not be trivialized by satire.

There is also an argument to be made that your statement represents a base misunderstanding or perhaps even willful ignorance of what a martyr actually is.

I guess that's a good point, it was a choice more based on preferences in available hardware, really. The best quality receivers have optical or both, whereas very good ones with coax only are rarer.

No, optical spdif to a dedicated receiver. The speakers on even $9000 displays are generally inferior to used 50$ studio monitoring speakers.

On the other hand, if you use one of Creative Labs' devices in Linux, the quality of their own software is irrelevant, and just on output gain and signal-to-noise ratios alone you can still beat the pants off most on-board audio solutions with a 10$ Live! card robbed out of an old Dell...

Do you mean to ask this question to make a point, or are you seriously asking? Because onboard graphics were already sufficient for everyday computing a few years *ago*...

USB introduces (physically inescapable) delay of enough magnitude to make it unacceptable for any serious gaming.

That doesn't exhibit free will, it exhibits a neurological disorder.

I dunno, I actually felt that learning GOTO gave me an edge in learning C functions over people who came into it blind...

I think it would be wiser to spend the big money on improving solar panel and battery tech. Nuclear reactors are actually a BAD choice for funding currently due to the bureaucratic gridlock around adopting new (safer) reactor designs, which *do* exist. Dams are fine and all but they just don't actually generate enough electricity and we've dammed up all the good rivers already anyway. Now, Tidal generators on the other hand might be a better direction to move the same tech into, but the thing that Solar has over rivers and coastline is that everyone has a view of the sky.

Wait... am I to determine by this rating that you WERE all surprised by this???!

Not I.

Enjoy your big brother, sheep.

electric shock not large enough magnitude

We would run out of deaf people SO FAST. Obviously the proper solution is to make the sidewalk vibrate.