I should have added "close relatives and friends of the family"

Except that.... The "think of the children" thing is BS.

Well over 50% of all child abuse is perpetrated by mothers, another 30% by fathers. The rest is perpetrated by close relatives (brothers, aunts, and such). The actual "stranger danger" stuff is minimal; about 110 cases a year out of what, 30,000,000 minors.

So for 110 crimes a year we're supposed to "think of the children" and let Big Brother into all of our communication.

The FAA requirement for a lock on the door was only issued after 9/11

No mandatory door locks before 9/11.

If what you say about republicans is true, then democrats are akin to the khamer rouge. And please, I live in Canada, I've lived in Europe. The US is one of very *few* western countries that doesn't have a requirement of voter ID.

This has nothing to do with "making it harder" especially when states are willing to hand out the ID for free. It seems to me, that democrats would be much happier to let people vote as many times as they can and "call it democracy." I mean it's not like there haven't been a string of democrats having been charged in the last year for election fraud or anything right? I mean there was one two days ago, that was charged with 19 counts I believe.

The US is a deeply racist society? I haven't read anything so funny in all my life. I'm guessing you've never traveled to japan, s.korea, malaysia or anything. You want to see deeply racist, try looking there. Or better yet, go look at the middle east...you'll see what a deeply racist society looks like. I do find it funny though that you use key words and talking points right out of the various left-wing pundits though. Perhaps you're so biased, and so deeply ingrained in your own bigotry that you can't see what you're actually saying.

Of course, we're talking about the Fta Tei. But they will still play to be the Universe Police.

Right, like the uproar against the Patriot Act. Oh wait.....

Let's face it, Big Brother Government knows no political boundaries.

Likewise. I've got a Windows 7 gaming rig that has seen LOTS of installs and uninstalls, driver updates and Windows updates and have seen zero performance reduction.

Maybe this was a thing in Windows 95, but I'm not sure it's a thing now as long as you're not getting infected with malware.

I accept that official definition. However governments, including the US government, misuse the term in practice.

A domain controller or an Exchange server is not likely to exhibit these issues unless you start doing things that are affected by this problem. Running programs that take a chunk of disk space and use it for reading and writing data in their own database format using their own code while responding to network queries for weeks is probably one of the least likely activities to get affected. (Unlike, say, the performance of the bookkeeping when installing updates etc.) It's similar to how even older versions of binary-translating virtualization packages weren't any slower at running user-mode code at full throttle: that's the part that's *not* being slowed down, it was the emulated peripherals that were.

DuckDuckGo's plugin isn't malware, and as a Mac user it isn't relevant to me. Even if it was there's no way of software being installed without my permission.

DuckDuckGo doesn't save search history, Google does. So it's a very easy choice.

Sorry to play devil's advocate, but cancer cells are just as much a part of your body as any of your other cells. However, if the rest of your body doesn't utilize its immune system cells to seek out and kill these cancer cells (which I guarantee you probably have a few of in your body somewhere as I write this), then you'll grow a malignant tumor and without serious foreign intervention (medical treatment) you'll die.

No but the Dumb-ass developers and Distro makers throw config files all over hell in random places.

If your config files are not in /etc or ~/.appname then the developer is a complete moron. /opt/dev/random/stinky/appname/config.cfg is NOT acceptable.

So, what you are saying is that the idea of One GUI To Rule Them All is a fucking joke; just like the "other side" is saying, right?

This just means your Mobile Device (which is always going to be more resource-starved than even the weakest Desktop) is going to be saddled with a bunch of Desktop GUI-cruft that it may never use, depending on the Application and User's Tastes. Because it ain't just a matter of Start Menu vs. Metro Tiles. It's a whole different paradigm.

And at least Apple is smart enough to know that. There have been some "leaks" from iOS into OS X; but if you look at them, it has been done in a very considered, and generally low-key way, largely to the benefit of the Desktop experience. Not what Redmond is foisting on the world. Simply no comparison. I'm not cheerleading Apple here; I am just saying that you simply cannot just shove a Mobile, Touch-Based UI down the Desktop-User's throat. And having a Mobile Device that has a schizoid UI that flips back and forth??? Yeah, Suzy Homemaker and Joe Sixpack are gonna dig that, yeahrightsure...

XP was fast as hell until you patched it up to SP3. Microsoft borked the hell out of that OS. Windows 7 I have not had the gradual slowdown problem at all.

-- enacted Nixon's health care plan with the liberal parts stripped out.

What's really funny is how all the tofu-eating liberals will defend Obamacare to the death even though it's a right-wing corporatist scheme.

Obama is a case study in how to take the troublesome younger leftist activist types in society and turn them into ardent defenders of crony capitalism.