I doubt China or Russia would follow suit, and this kind of stupidity is just what will give them the lead in computer tech.

Try this or this for examples of a real Western religion.

And eliminating gasoline will prevent useful applications of it, in effect throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot didn't need God to believe in their version of the truth that justified mass killings. It is easy to blame belief in God where one sees atrocities, but there is too much evidence that atrocities happen with and without belief in God, it's just whatever aspects of the underlying culture a tyrant picks up to justify their actions, and because theistic religion is present in the culture, it gets drawn on for justification of evil.

I run Unity, but I use the Guake console and have a 'u' command so that I press F12 to get the console and 'u m' for my mail program, 'u c' for chromium, etc. I have an n command so that n f.pdf launces evince, n t.tex latex's it etc. I doesn't reflect well on UI design that I like linux because a drop down command line console is a useabiliy feature I need.

'You will effectively not exclusively own root on a windows box' -- like the TrustedInstaller user on Win7??

Or 'killall men' or 'kill husband' (or even 'kill -9 ex-husband') etc.

If you haven't read The Unix Haters Handbook, it's a great read for all those *nix lovers. I say this as one who prefers Linux for most everyday stuff.

I remember when I first installed Linux in 1995, which came on a cover CD with essentially no instructions. I had to reinstall two or three times and watch carefully the list of packages installed to get an idea of what to type. I took a while to find my way around the /bin and usr/bin stuff, and it took me a week, and the confirmation dialog in the openlookalike file manager (do you want to Remove), including getting X up and working, before I guessed that rm and not del or era was the command to delete a file. I guessed man correctly, having seen that the package man was installed and the installer screen indicated that this was the manual. But I was determined to play with this new toy, and few users today will try so hard. What fun.

Apple are dumbing down the Mac, moving it away from being a high end professional computer, turning it into an overgrown iPad. Microsoft are turning Windows into an oversized Windows Phone OS. PCs are turning into consoles, and it is the serious personal computer that is threatened with extinction.

Though for starting out, it will be a while before you need what the D7000 gives over the D3100. The D5100 is also worth a look if you have the cash, though if you plan on spending more than a D3100 and don't need the tilting screen of the D5100, possibly the D7000 is the next step up.

I have a Lumix FZ100 and the quality sucks compared to either my Canon S95 or my Nikon D3100. If you want to capture things that are moving, the shutter lag on a non-DSLR tends to get in the way: you have to be prescient to know to press the shutter half a second before the shot you want to take appears: DSLRs are much quicker to respond. As a starter DSLR there is no need for more than either a D3100 or a Canon 550D. If portability is an issue, get a good compact such as a Canon S95 -- I love the fact that this has a face-autofocus that focuses the faces in the picture wherever they are, something a DSLR will probably never do.

I find that the biggest advantage of a DSLR is in being able to get a shot of something that is changing -- when you press the button on a DSLR, that is when the photo is taken -- with every compact I've used, there is a roughly 0.5sec lag which means that what you get a shot of is not what was in front of the camera when you pressed the shutter release. On the other hand, a camera you can have with you at all times is terribly useful. For this reason I have a Nikon D3100, which for a first DLSR is ideal, and a Canon S95 which is a great high quality compact.

Though the flattening effect of telephoto must be taken into account. If you want to flatten the perspective, step back and zoom in, if you want the opposite, step in and zoom out. I find that 50mm is the shortest lens that's any good for people's faces, and 35mm is great for scenes. I have a 18-270 Tamron, which is fine when you want the zoom and quality isn't so important (photos are not as alive as those from even my original 18-55). Basically a couple of primes are great for those times when you want better quality and decent bokeh, whereas a travel lense (e.g. 18-270) is useful when you are going for a walk and don't want to have to change lens.

I have a bridge and, unless you really need the zoom, the picture quality is let down by the size of the sensor, resulting in much more noise than you get with SLRs or a high-end compact.