It works better, until you find that you are now literally chained to the tv, whenever you want to do something.

So now you have to choose between a long cable and its risks, or getting out of the chair just to pick another movie, picture etc.

Personally I much prefer NOT being chained.

I tried OpenOffice of several versions, over the years, and all of them were buggy. The latest one, for example, corrupted the watermark in the document. This is unacceptable

I agree - unacceptable.
However - try being in a situation where you are sending documents to an intermediary who translates the document into your client's language (and vice versa of course), and ending up with the document describing the 100 million euro project, CRASHING Word, as soon as the document crosses 100 pages.

Then imagine calling Microsoft's quite expensive business support, asking for help, and flat out being told, that this is a known issue for documents that traverse different language installations, and that there is no forthcoming fixes for this bug, and that the work around is to keep the documents below 100 pages.

At that point, it either becomes a beaurocratic nightmare to keep track of every piece of the 2,500+ page document, OR you simply instate a simple rule of always opening the document in Open Office, saving it in Word format again, and then opening it in Word, after which there were NO crashing issues with the large document. A few layout issues, but no one really cared about that.

Granted, that was about 10 years ago now, and I have no idea why the hell that work around turned out to work, but THAT is a horrible type of bug. It is a show stopper, and quite frankly much worse than a watermark corruption issue.

Now, do competing suites have issues? Yes, they do. But for some reason the relatively trivial issues that they have always trumps the game stopping bugs that probably still exist in MS Office, simply because "that's what everyone uses".

And this applies to all the dominant pieces of software. Doesn't matter what they are.

And in case you hadn't noticed, I seriously hate that attitude.

Considering the number of NBA players in any given year, the likelihood of anyone ever being an NBA player is approaching zero, no matter their height.

Seriously.

If you don't want to ignore them, just stage a counter protest and drown out their crazy.

And if you do counter protest them, don't forget to bring your DICK TASTES YUMMY signs.

And where, exactly, do you get paid money to buy a Chromebook?

MacBook Air starts at $999 for the 11" version, so in order to save 1200 bucks, you'd have to be given $201 when getting the Chromebook.

Sounds like a really bad deal for the manufacturer to be honest.

Or was Jesus too busy somewhere else?

He was busy giving AIDS to newborns, while his dad was busy convincing people to commit atrocities.

Truth: Most of the CAs are in tiny closed relationships and have no connection to others.

Graph: Huge lump of CAs, making it look like they are all interconnected.

I think you mean T+3 hours. T-3 hours indicates the future.

That being said - at what point is it okay to talk politics? 12 hours after someone shot someone else? 24 hours? Three days? A week? A month? A year? A decade?

Because, believe it or not, the US has seen no less than 17 mass shootings this year, including this one. That's roughly once every 21 days, so if you want people to wait more than a month to discuss politics, then that will never happen. But the first one on that list is from July, so that's 17 shootings in six months, so closer to once every 11 days.

Even worse than that - in the US there are 87 gun deaths a day. That's more than once every 20 minutes on average - so again, if we have to wait more than 15 minutes before talking politics, then that can never happen either.

What you may want to wonder, is why a country like Switzerland, where every household is legally required to have a rifle, has less than one fifth the amount of shooting homicides per capita (0.58/100,000) of the US (2.98).

And if you weren't so blindly upset, you would instead look at the facts freely available to you, and point out that per capita/A, the US (2.98) is in the same "boat" as France (3.00) and Austria (2.94), better off than Finland (3.64), but much worse off than Canada (0.76).

But back to my original point - how long SHOULD you wait before talking gun policy? And does the distance to a crime matter? Does the amount of news coverage it gets matter?

You bitching about it being "too soon" isn't helpful. Tell us when, exactly, it is okay to talk about gun policy, without stepping on your toes.

The thing is, the networks are using your resources to send this to you, and in exchange for the right to do so without interference from other things, they have to live up to certain requirements.

This is just an additional requirement tacked on in response to quite honestly horrific behaviour on their part.

Think of it as being told to turn down the volume at an excessively loud party, because it's pissing off your neighbours.

If the officers didn't have Tasers, would they have pulled their gun and shot her instead?

No? Then they shouldn't have used a Taser - no exceptions.

I can't believe that this isn't the law. They have no way of knowing, if the target is going to die as a result of the Tasering. What happens if the current runs across a pace maker? Insulin pump? Other life saving medical equipment?

Pepper spray has similar issues, but at a slightly less violent level. In my opinion pepper spray should only be used, if the officers would have used a night stick if they didn't have the spray. I.e. not on non-violent protesters sitting in the street rtc.

Again, I really don't understand why this is not the law already.

If you assert that God's non-falsifiability is sufficient reason to believe in God, then the non-falsifiability of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is also sufficient reason to believe in the FSM.

Why go with The Flying Spaghetti Monster, when you have Santa Claus, The Tooth Fairy, The Easter Bunny, Unicorns, Big Foot, The Loch Ness Monster, Verruca Gnomes, The Hair Loss Fairy and the Eater of Socks.

Get the cell numbers of every single member of the board as well as managers for the company.

Send every one of them an SMS complaining about their plan to spam you.

If one person does it - no big deal.

It 100,000 people does it, well, it's not a big hit on each individual sending the message, but 100,000 messages might just crash their phone. But with a little bit of luck, they're each paying something like 25 cents to receive a text message.

She seriously makes a half million USD per year AND has a private account in the trading system that returns 3% PER DAY.

Does she make 500,000 dollars a year? Don't know, don't care.

Does her private account return 3% per day? No.

On average a year contains 250 trading days. 3%/day for 250 days is 1.03^250 = 1,619.22% in a year.

If the trader mentioned put in 100$ of her 500,000$/year salary into her traders account at the end of 2009, she'd come out of 2010 with $161,900. By the end of 2011, those 161,900 dollars would have become 262 million dollars. And by the end of 2012 those 262 million dollars would have become 424 billion dollars. End of 2013 her account will be worth 686 trillion.

Just for reference, in 2011 the entire world's GDP was about 69 trillion.

End of 2014: 1,110 quadrillion.
End of 2015: 1,798 quintillion.
End of 2016: 2,911 sextillion dollars.

Or put another way - by January 1st 2017, she'd be able to give every single person on the planet more than 300 trillion dollars each.

The conclusion is REALLY simple: You are either full of shit or an unbelievably stupid idiot for believing her claim - and I know which one applies to the mods who modded you interesting.

Are you suggesting that socialists like me are arguing, that we should all be given F-16 engines stolen from Israel?

When I buy a laptop they're all equal EXCEPT FOR THE KEYBOARDS. Some are better than others, but none compare to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_M_keyboard

Do you really want a portable computer, where the keyboard alone weighs about two kg and is five cm thick?