While that is true, the implication that the automation creates and maintains itself is very false.

I run plenty of alpha, beta and otherwise buggy Linux systems. But because I use snapshots in file systems, recovery from bad updates is trivial. Microsoft is stuck in the 20th century.

Hitler deployed 200 out of his 300 armies for operation yellow - the campaign against USSR. 40 were helping Mussolini, 60 were left for the western operation of US, UK, Australia, Canada and others. Yet USSR reached Berlin before the western forces. Enough said.

The *purpose* of greenpeace was to etch their own message alongside the ancient lines. So it's like you took a brush to an art exhibition, and touched the painting with one dipped in nice oil colors.

They have sequestered carbon in their bodies. Nothing wrong in that.

Greenpeace was trying to do what is illegal to attempt to do, there is no remedy possible if they fail.

BP was doing something which was legal to attempt to do, partial controversial remedies are available if they fail. BP failed, and were less than willing to remedy.

Clearly, one is much more malicious than the other at the very outset.

The infamous "nature" fallacy.

Public schools, found abundantly in nature, hanging on to trees, swimming with octopuses in the oceans, are greatly afflicted by an non- natural bane called vaccination.

Religion can induce people to believe anything - including the horrors of vaccine. Notably, definitions 6 and 8 here
explicitly allow for this, many other definitions and interpretations do so to some extent too.

They can be idiots where they don't endanger my children. Some hardship in return for endangering my children is pretty reasonable.

Installed since Alpha, using full time since Beta. No major issues - just lxdm user switch doesn't work. Hope it is fixed in final release.

Switched to lightdm, so not checked lxdm issue yet.

I tend to agree, but a question nibbles me. When, if, it all becomes paywall, the tracking will be far more complete? It is possible that each website will manage its own paywall mechanism / data, but isn't it far more likely that it will be outsourced to 2 or 3 companies which will handle paywalls for 97â of websites?

Firefox to the rescue. It has become an awesome Android browser in other ways too, and comes with the repository with ad blocking extensions, privacy enhancing extensions, and send to be reasonably secure.

Wake up. The "Web" did become unusable long ago. Without adblock, anyway.

Only ever seeing malicious ads is not the issue - ever seeing malicious ads is the issue. FYI, one malware is one malware too many.

The addon user did not give explicit permission to the advertising companies to do business with the website through himself. Websites generally don't even have EULA. If they then are prevented from doing this questionable business through non-consenting parties, that should be fine.