If watching stuff on Megavideo counts, I would fall in the "frequent" category.

However a few years ago I did receive an email from some company on behalf of Paramount Pictures who were monitoring ed2k downloads of their contractor's movies. I lived in university accommodation at that moment, so they emailed the university, who forwarded the email to me and shut me off immediately. I got my connection back after a computer officer searched my laptop for movies - using Windows' built-in search facility! I had "hidden" the movies in my Mandrake partition :-)

All this for an incomplete transfer of some stupid chick flick my girlfriend wanted to watch.

No, he's hasn't.

"Configurability", more like. It's well known that Gnome lets you configure fewer things than KDE. They try to focus on simplicity, and they think that the fewer things to tinker with in the usual setup tools, the better. By design though, Gnome's behaviour is configurable, and if you know your way around GConf keys you can tweak quite a few things.

Whether you agree with Gnome's principles or not, that's another story. I personally don't mind either way.

You can have it in Gnome too. Open gconf-editor, find the "/apps/metacity/general/button_layout" key, and enter "close:minimize,maximize" as the value.

Two points:

1. As I replied to the earlier post,

2. You say

That's why tobacco and alcoholic products are taxed extra (or at least in other countries where the extra tax goes to health services).

You are basically saying that it's their fault if people get sick. That is nonsense. I hope you are never in the situation to realize this from first-hand experience.

I think you are replying to the second part of my comment there, not the bit you quote, else I don't see what (very indirect) connection you are trying to make between voting and helping yourself from somebody else's pocket.

The point I can see you could be trying to raise is that the money that would be invested by insurance companies in treating people with pre-existing, permanent conditions would increase the insurance prices for everyone. And that's precisely what I think is correct. The extra money you are paying is exactly proportional to the chances that the same may have happened (or may still happen!) to you. Which is fair.

Bollocks. People typically vote for the party that offers what is good for them personally. For instance, voting profiles are typically different among the rich and the poor for the socio-economic policies each party offers. The party that represents the interest of the majority wins. That is called democracy.

Really? Do you worry more about whether the profit margins of some corporations are huge or even huger, rather than about the economic well-being and health of individuals (who surely did not ask for nor deserve having a permanent health condition)? Of course, big, wealthy[-er] corporations are what makes a country great. Sure.

I think you accidentally the joke.

I think you accidentally all your drugs.

That's bollocks. An uninterpretable power supply is one with LEDs and LCDs everywhere which nobody knows how to read. I've seen one. Not my cup of tea.

Now, an uninterruptible one... that's a different story.

Anyway, how does your comment classify as sarcasm, even as per your definition?

You don't really think that it's smugness (although in this case it looks more like humour to me) that keeps Linux from becoming popular, do you? I would say that it's "this kind of thinking" that keeps Linux at a non-zero market share on desktops. Growing further is simply not in the hands of "Linux evangelists", smug or otherwise.

Two typos in (what was supposed to be) 19 characters. I wish all malware writers were that sloppy.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/satiety