Dude, my dad and brother and uncle run linux. They don't give a shit about what's under the hood. I put it on their computers so they would stop begging me to fix their shitty windows boxes every time I visit. Do you know how many headaches getting them to convert has saved me? Hundreds probably. I started converting them over about 4 years ago--in the dark ages. My dad just asked me for a new unbuntu disk to install on a computer he is selling or buying for himself. I ripped the disk and mailed it to him, and I haven't heard from him. *He doesn't know jack-shit about linux or unix.* Can you wrap your mind around that. This is the man's native operating system and he couldn't "ls" if his life depended on it. And he couldn't configure a driver either. Do you get that? In fact, if I hadn't switched him and my brother to linux, I wouldn't have time to write this. I'm not friggin' lying here. In fact, I run OS X exclusively for myself except in VMs, so I'm not a linux zealot. If I had a choice between linux and windows, I'd run linux hands down. But I fork over the big $$ for OS X. You probably do to. So quit pretending windows is just as good as linux. Windows is shit. I have first hand experience.

Sherlock was actually the sleuth from some fictional stories written long ago. So it's inaccurate to use "Sherlock" here.

If I hear one more person use "Sherlock" in the wrong context, my brain is going to explode because they don't know proper usage.

The term you are looking for is "fucktard".

Learn English.

Because if you have an imaginary concocted ailment like restless leg syndrome or hyperactivity, then the imaginary effects of a sugar pill are going to work well to alleviate the imaginary symptoms of the imaginary disease.

Pharmaceutical companies define disease these days. They advertise diseases and they push doctors to prescribe their poisonous ineffective chemicals to treat the advertised diseases.

You could probably find a correlation between the number of advertised diseases like restless leg syndrome and this so called "placebo effect".

That's because any religion that doesn't aim to (1) convert others and (2) kill those who won't be converted is not going to make it in the long run. Over 2000 years, "I'm ok, your ok." looses to "I'm ok, you aren't, it's your kneecaps or my religion."

Nice plan until Apple decides which songs can be downloaded onto their hardware. Try again.

No. But I have considered a career in psychology--and it seems I might be pretty damn good at it.

I had to scroll through 250 posts before someone actually gave an intelligent criticism of one of these things.

What is your favorite video game? Zork wasn't good enough for you?

Get back in your base...oh you never left.

I see your insightful post and raise you a "why the hell was this modded troll"?

Umm, it's slow? It's unpleasant. You have to dodge assholes who run red lights. It's not intense enough for a workout. It does not work your entire body.

Do you need more reasons?

I row 10,000 m five days a week on an indoor rower and I use mechanized transportation to and from work every day. The 10,000 m on the rower would just about cover my round trip *in a rowboat*. An equivalent amount of energy on a bicycle or walking would get me to work and back twice at least. I don't walk for the reasons I mentioned. I don't run because I don't like to show up to work sweaty and I have too many injuries from the knees down to do it for more than a week without crippling myself. I don't ride a bike because I live in LA and I LIKE LIVING!

If I didn't think some jackass in a car would try to nail me on a yike bike just because he didn't like the way I looked, I'd probably get one. Instead, I savor the thought of the thousands of pounds of metal around my body as I commute to and from work.

The antagonism towards segways and yike bikes even on the hyper liberal /. drives me away from these environmental alternatives because I know the attitude you and others show here is expressed as dangerous aggression on the road. I'd rather mother earth burn up in a stew of CO2 than make myself a target for drivers who are insecure about their own masculinity and aim their SUVs at everything that doesn't have four wheels.

I'm from the Humor Assistance League. I'm here to help.

Parent wants us to imagine Fred Flintstone's legs under his car running, like he does at the intro of every show. Parent may also want us to contrast more primitive technologies with present and future technology and the impact these technologies have on our lives and perspectives.

Please call 555-I-SUBTLE if you continue to get modded inappropriately.

Do I need to use the sarcasm tags when I say the following or is the absurdity enough of a hint?

Yes, this really has worked well for southern California.

Estanislao, you need to turn yourself into the authorities because it is not inconceivable that you will commit a heinous crime of wanton murder if you choose to do so. Your guilty of thinking that.

Sounds like a childhood friend of mine. He was struggling with a lot of issues that any adult might consider trivial. Ended up "failing ultimate" and not being very much fun to be around after that. I don't know the guaranteed way to off one's self, but firearms pose the risk of a very humiliating and challenging existence if one doesn't succeed.

While taking his own life is his own damn decision in my opinion, there is such a thing as having just a little consideration for your fellow man.

Kids, don't leave a mess. It's just not cool.