The first desktop I built myself ca 2003 serves today as mothers computer. The second desktop I built myself serves as fathers computer. The used computer I bought knowing it had faults ca 2005 still serves, clocked down, as a home router at my parents place. Has had a hard-drive failure and power supply failure, but after a few spares from the heap of parts with minor faults it still works. My monster of a Dell laptop is still live and well as far as I know. My cousin got it. And that machine was declared dead as two different computers before I got/assembled it:P I mentioned I might be looking into new computer for myself last week because 4G of RAM just isn't enough... One of my younger sisters immediately volunteered to rid me of my old one, even if it has no windows and she would have to live with Ubuntu:P

Aah, but you weren't negotiating. And you aren't rich enough to buy someone to negotiate for you... That's what you get in a society that values lining ones own pockets over everything else and labels anyone thinking differently with a nasty label - yes, the dreaded "socialist" one.

Nobody is happy. But this is what you get when one side is not interested in win-win solutions, and just goes for screwing the other guy over.

That just summs up to a very late variant of birth control. Less kids would leave more resources and thus better chances of growing into adulthood for those that are born. World is a zero sum game.

Birth control is the key. A country that cant feed itself probably has a shortage of medical services too. And without modern medicine giving birth is dangerous business, so any female would be very much interested in limiting the birth rate in a way that wouldn't depend on the males who only get the fun bits and none of the pain of giving birth. Giving away free 5 year birth control implants for example would save the world from many an extra mouth.

600 years ago? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic Put that into modern globalized world. Medicine takes time to catch up and if there is something that has a rapid spread and 3 day latency most of the infection would be done by the time people understand something is wrong. And for a killer bacteria to develop only one needs to survive sterilization and breed and yes of course there are people who drop their antibiotics way too soon and use all sorts of aggressive cleaning techniques on household surfaces or do other stupid things.

Any female in a stable relationship is rather likely to have at least one regular subscription med on their list. Should they not be on it?

We wont even need a war that becomes inevitable once resources get scarce. No, nature will take care of it first. The more there are people, the more densely populated the world, the more likely is a proper pandemic. People go every day from one end of the world to another. All you need is a germ that is highly contagious, lethal and has a 3 day latency period and most of that 7 billion will drop dead and it wont even take very long. This is bound to occur within this century. All the highly sterile environments we insist on keeping are perfect breeding grounds for such a disease.

Macs are supported too. Linux users are out in the cold:)

Exceptionally insightful:) I have gotten a few auto translated into Estonian. Hilarious reads indeed :D I may sound sane in some language with simpler grammar, but Estonian (just like its sibling Finnish) is full of funny pitfalls.

Windows didn't crash randomly after 5 minutes to 2 hours uptime. It crashed on user interaction. you could almost tiptoe around most of the unstable stuff if you were good.

Just to explain. Problem with this drug isn't that it doesnt leave the system. Problem is, that it is leaving way too quickly and brain doesn't really cope well with that.

Been there, done that. Just don't quit on your own. I did. It was an experience to say the least. If you get shocks now... Quitting will be horror. Get your doc to subscribe you smaller doses to be taken more frequently or just take a wet finger full off a capsule when you get the shocks. It should take them right away. The med has 9h half life. Your dosage is probably not staying as stable as it should.

P.S Im not a doctor, just someone who has been there and walked the mile. And at that time the med saved my life. But getting your head sorted has a better potential of success in the long term. Therapy FTW.

As someone who pulled a mildly warm turkey off Effexor... Don't suggest that to someone on this drug. For me the flu like symptoms and mood swings lasted for about 4 days, vivid dreams for 2 weeks and the "shocks"/brain freezes about a month. And I took a very small dose whenever things got too bad for the first 4 days. there is only one right way to get off it and that's gradually reducing the dose. Everything else requires a babysitter. And whatever the reason for taking the meds... It will come crashing back.

Trouble with this is that there is no defined list of BIOS-es that will crash or BIOS-es that work and no automated way to gather it, plus it would require maintenance. That can not happen in kernel. The distro's installer is perfect place to detect and configure grub accordingly but I doubt the maintainers are willing to shoulder the burden this brings.