No offence, but your former flatmate sounds like a complete dickhead.

As someone who has experienced Melbourne trams having to break hard to avoid an accident which resulted in all the passengers being hurled forwards (some off their feet) it is just not cool.

Actually, we have released most of our stuff for free under the Creative Commons license, so we actively encourage people to download and watch it for free.

An example: http://www.insecuritymovie.com/

I am sure that if in the future we get financing/investment in our film making projects we'd have to look at ways of returning on the investments (unless people were investing for altruistic purposes), but they would probably not involve DRM or suing people into oblivion.

That is a little harsh. As an indie film maker I probably fall under the "assorted bungholes" label you freely dish out. I however also hold down an "honest" (according to your world view) job; I work as a sysad for an environmental consultancy.

I can tell you from personal experience that film making is craploads harder than any IT work I have ever done, and I have had some doozies in the past. It is also fun and extremely rewarding.

Thank you. I was fairly late to the /. game, but I have enjoyed every minute of it.

Cheers!

Juniper or Dell. Dell make some great (and affordable) stackable managed switches.

Looks that way! http://serioustubes.org/

Or, you know the third possibility; he never existed. None of the horrific realities that have transpired since 9/11 actually needed a physical person to be turned into an Emmanuel Goldstein.

This death (real of otherwise) will change nothing.

How is this a troll? This is possibly the most historically accurate and level headed post yet. Yes, all of us Eastern Slavs (Russians, Ukrainians and Belarussians) share a close common heritage, and a lot of our folklore will be shared.

And yes, it was the Bolsheviks and not the Russians per se that are to blame. Don't tar an entire people by the actions of a douchebag villainous political party that held the country by force and bullying. Russians are yet to have a level headed ruler since their independence from the Tatars all those hundereds of years ago, all we seem to get is murderous monomaniacal cretins. The closest we had to a normal ruler was Gorbachev, and look how well that went.

On, and food for thought:

The kolobok folk tale is thought to be originally Finnish, and brought into Slavic foklore through novgorod.

Disclaimer: I have both Russian and Ukrainian heritage, amongst other nationalities.

To be perfectly fair, 100 push ups is a heck of a lot. I don't know fit people would would happily do 100 push ups, and getting a 13 year old child to do so is negligent and dangerous.

News for nerds this aint, but sickening it is.

Emotions are alien to me. I'm a scientist.
-- Spock, "This Side of Paradise", stardate 3417.3

What do you mean by that? I am genuinely curious about what you mean by 'environmentalism gets serious'.

Actually, I grew up in the Soviet Union, and it wasn't really all that bad.

Okay, so he is a raging douchebag. No sure where you get the assertion that our tax dollars are funding him however. In fact (from the same wikipedia page you linked, the following paragraph in fact);

The American Jewish Committee condemned the Yosef's remarks, stating that "Rabbi Yosef’s remarks -- suggesting outrageously that Jewish scripture asserts non-Jews exist to serve Jews -- are abhorrent and an offense to human dignity and human equality [...] Judaism first taught the world that all individuals are created in the divine image, which helped form the basis of our moral code. A rabbi should be the first, not the last, to reflect that bedrock teaching of our tradition." [34] The remark was also condemned by the Anti-Defamation League.[35]

So yeah. He is a crazy old lunatic who spouts hateful rhetoric. But I'm not sure how we're either funding him or how he is altogether relevant in any way.

No, that *is* a monthly estimate. If you read the linked source it stated an estimated 5 million annual deaths, so I simply divided the figure by 12. 5,000,000 / 12 ~ 416666.667, so I rounded down to allow margin for error that wasn't in my favour.

Source?

Also, even if your stats are true, globally 609 dead per month from terrorism in comparison to the global total of 4,680,652 (from http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/pcwe) is negligeble. Considering the number of average monthly deaths from smoking alone is over 410000 (http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com/global.htm), I'm not sure how you can justify your statement of "not "quite small"...