No, actually, they're not. The democrats now are what the republicans were in, say, the 80s. They're right of centre, but they manage to do some decent work.

Meanwhile, the republicans refuse to believe that debt is an issue, they penalize the poor for being poor, the list is virtually endless. And heck, the *entire* lineup of republican presidential candidates are freaking psychotic, with the most psychotic of the bunch currently in the lead.

While the parent comment is funny, I wouldn't be surprised if republicans actually believed this. They seem to spend all their time focusing on pet conspiracies, while ignoring the real problems facing the USA. The party has successfully reinvented themselves from being "conservative", to "batshit crazy" and their entire existence revolves around defeating the democrats (when they're not attacking each other).

Actually managing the country seems to be very far down on their priority list.

I just want to point out that there's no such thing as 'artificial' vs 'natural' selection pressure. There is simply selection pressure. This pressure can come from *anything*, whether it is chemicals in the environment (as may be in this case), other organisms that affect them in some way (a new predator forces a species to adapt in some way to survive), or even themselves (eg: The females prefer black bees with yellow stripes, rather than yellow bees with black stripes).

These pressures have *always* existed. All humans have done is made things more interesting.

Typical. You can't handle being called out on your ignorance, so you label me as a SJW so you can relax back in your armchair and disregard what I say with undeserved smugness.

But I can understand that point of view. It's pretty uncomfortable to think that one's attitudes cause pain, suffering, and death of others, choosing to be willfully ignorant is a convenient and powerful defense.

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The fact that you include transgenderism to be the same as homeopathy, or a white women co-oping black culture, just shows how people like you are part of the problem.

You're an armchair 'expert' who doesn't actually know anything about topics you're discussing, but you think your point of view is valid regardless.

It's depressing that humanity's breadth of knowledge has increased to an unprecedented level, yet instead of educating themselves about the world they live in people prefer to just dig deeper holes to stick their heads in.

The preview I installed (~2 weeks ago) was shockingly unstable and slow. I was appalled at the state of an OS, especially when it is slated for release in July.

(For example, my start... panel... thing... completely hosed itself for no apparent reason, a couple days after I installed the OS, leaving me nothing with a bunch of coloured boxes with class names in them).

I realize this is flamebait, but that still made me laugh. :)

Well, enjoy your immaculately maintained music collection.

I'll be over here enjoying my job, my spouse, and my personal life.

We're talking about OSX right now, not Windows. Generally speaking, OSX notifications are not focus stealing.

Naturally, there are notable exceptions of some applications, which makes it that much more infuriating because you don't *expect* focus to be stolen.

I would love to hear you define socialism, in your own words. I'm willing to bet that you have no idea what socialism actually is.

So THAT's where corporate CEOs come from!

Because maybe people just don't / didn't know? When buying a non-cheap product from a major company, one would expect that it's actually fit for purpose, and so it wouldn't even occur to them to ask.

I got a Samsung Galaxy S3 cause everyone was raving about how awesome it was. Needless to say I was majorly pissed when I discovered what a steaming pile of crap it was. I've since switched the iOS, which I've had comparatively zero problems with, and am never touching an android device again.

You know something is wrong when you get a new phone, and the first thing you need to do is wipe the OS and install cyanogenmod just so the phone works properly.

This of course assumes that there's a version of cyanogenmod for your phone.

What an idiotic comment. Even more so, when coming from supposed professionals.

Unlike iE, Safari has followed web standards from day one. Unlike Microsoft, Apple didn't think that it was a good idea to integrate itself tightly into the OS, right down to the kernel, making it a shocking security nightmare.

Apple didn't have to throw out their entire software line and create a new browser from scratch cause they fucked the old one up so badly that it was irredeemable.

This kind of hyperbolic nonsense not only confuses the issue, it minimizes the damage that Microsoft caused, setting web development back by a good decade.