Yes. All that free software is being so unfairly kept from you.

Of course he doesn't. He might as well have randomly picked any line from "dpkg -l | grep lib" and written the same article. It would've been exactly as sensible.

Mint also works just fine with systemd, the biggest problem was needing an mdm.service file (which is now in MDM head i believe anyway).

Yes. Welcome to parallel programming and all serious software development since the 1980s. It's complicated. Get used to it or stop worrying about it.

Isn't libsystemd a shim library? Isn't that it's whole point? Since you know, it gets installed without the rest of systemd by software which wants to connect to systemd if it's running but otherwise ignore it?

You need 120hz for VR displays, which is exactly where 8K embedded displays are actually useful, and the same reason John Carmack wants to try and cram that into an intelligent interlaced format to optimize for a 60 Hz capability model.

This attitude is part of everything that's wrong with the prison system. The idea that prisoners should be relied upon and expected to met out additional extrajudicial punishment to other prisoners. The idea that prison rape is "ok" because it's happening to other prisoners.

It's the pulse rate of the radio. The radio turns on and off at audio frequencies, so the interference smears out to become the classic chirp sound.

Also speed means the laser doesn't need to be highly destructive. There's absolutely no problem with simply locking a suitably powerful laser on a target and firing it continuously until the target undergoes a failure, because so long as your tracking is working you pretty much will never miss - there's 0 effective flight time on terrestrial scales.

Your nation is a democracy. Represented by the people. If its not that, then it doesn't matter what you think. But you seem to think it is that. In which case, taxes go to the people, and for the provision of their needs.

Keep on chugging that koolaid. But there's no possible way Apple Australia earns $6 billion locally, with our local 20% corporate tax rate, yet somehow only pays $80.3 million in taxes.

It's bullshit, and everybody knows it. Except you, apparently.

I like how you have opinions on how to run a nation, but apparently are not familiar with Somalia, or its local conditions despite probably also being amongst those who were gung-ho about anti-piracy military operations in it's waters.

That only seems to matter to the NRA crowd when it's guns. Race, religion, sexuality, habeas corpus? Eh...whatever.

Actually plutonium is mostly just a biological toxin. Its a heavy metal that gets drawn into your cells and hits you about the same as say, a dose of cadmium breathed into the lungs would.

Radiation is a funny thing: alpha emitters are harmless outside the body, but incredibly toxic if absorbed. Gamma emitters are no trouble at all - they're no more dangerous (barring chemical toxicity) outside then inside since the radiation passes through all practical wearable shielding.

This is ignoring that the *thrust* requirements to go from LEO to Geo are orders of magnitude different though. You can get an a couple km/s delta-v from a cubesat with thrusters amounting to a taser and some metal - but you'll never get to LEO using them.