Brilliant parody of Slashdot editor's grammatical skills.

Even with the mandate, insurance companies will still look for and find loopholes, because those loopholes save them money and are therefore profitable, and at the end of the day, insurance companies are still companies, and profit is the name of the game.

I hate that Noone guy, always complaining about everything.

I highly recommend you visit other regions of the U.S. before making up your mind about it. The region you have traveled in is basically our equivalent of Eastern Europe. The rest of the country is nothing like that.

Assassinations?

In America it does.

You've got it wrong. In addition to the $50, you also have to prove you can parallel park between two orange cones.

Al Gore is, or at least was, a politician. In the U.S., we have what is known as a two party system. Even though those two parties are often in agreement on many issues, the people who vote for those parties can be extremely emotional about their party. Consequently, to maybe 50% of the U.S. population, Al Gore is first and foremost a "Democrat" and therefore the enemy. This makes it incredibly easy to ignore everything he says as lies and liberal propaganda. And that will never change. The issue has now become politicized, there's no going back.

Yeah, I noticed that last night...

Der, I mean XMP

Continuing further: Can I save a tiff with XML metadata yet? Or any metadata?

The point of the "baby" interface seems obvious to me, yet no one seems to pointing this out. It's not for the desktop. Gnome has moved on. The large buttons, the removal of a taskbar and maximize/minimize buttons, these are all clearly moves designed for devices with small touch screens, ie. tablets and cell phones. What I'm wondering is why they would just give up on the desktop like this. It's all fine and good to design a spiffy phone interface, but it seems like that should be a side project in addition to your main desktop UI, or even a spin-off. But this is it. There is no full desktop interface. This is the direction they are choosing to go in. It will be interesting to see the future of desktop Linux. I see two main paths: either desktop Linux dies off, or a new DM rises up to replace the old. And I really don't think KDE has what it takes, but only time will tell.

I love how they will go to such great lengths to demonize google for not supporting h.264 but will bend over backwards to defend microsoft's decision to not support webm. Hey, nevermind the fact that one is free for anyone to implement and the other insures that only those with deep pockets can afford it.

Yeah, choice. The choice to "do it our way or the highway"

Now developers can use an open codec that microsoft refuses to support, or use a closed codec that works on any browser! (as long as that browser is running on a microsoft operating system with a microsoft plugin). Thanks for using your market share to making sure html5 will never work properly on Linux, choice-loving microsoft.

Ah yes, the argument from ignorance. If I've never heard about Title 26 of the United States Code, it doesn't exist!