Are any of them made of marble?

Funny, I was just trying to install ProFTP on Debian stable yesterday. Couldn't get it to work at all.

I've already merged with my chair, so this works out perfectly for me.

Utilitarianism is prescriptive in that it says "the best outcome is X, so you should work to achieve X."

While utilitarianism works in theory, the problem is that it only works in theory. It seems to make sense to say "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few", but when you get down to it, who gets to make those decisions? As Dostoevsky showed, no one should try to play games with peoples' lives.

It would have surprised me two years ago, but it doesn't now. One of the things about Obama that I think surprised everyone -- especially his base -- is that he turned out to actually be more authoritarian on the whole than Bush. It's like he has some kind of addiction to federal power and control. I know the Democrats are all about federal power more than state power, but they used to be the party that defended civil liberties. My, what a way we've come.

Am I misunderstanding this, or does this just sound like a logical extension of the Flynn effect? Everyone's getting smarter, and "everyone" naturally includes seniors, so . . .

Me too. I know I wouldn't want Steve Jobs deciding what Ubuntu applications I can and can't install.

Thus solving the problem once and for all!

Mod parent up.

And anyone who feels the same way should send a similar email. It's how we would get them to "give a sh*t."

It's not a troll because it asserts that Linux is dead.

It's a troll because it asserts that Linux is dead ON /.

Come on, now.

For a second I thought the Slashdot headline was an Onion-esque headline, reporting the blindingly obvious and mundane as if it were news.

Because it's happened before -- it's how the whole Harry Potter moral panic got started. True story.

The original article: http://www.theonion.com/articles/harry-potter-books-spark-rise-in-satanism-among-ch,2413/http://www.theonion.com/articles/harry-potter-books-spark-rise-in-satanism-among-ch,2413/

And the snopes article: http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/potter.asp

I doubt it, but he may own the copyright on the phrase "delusions of grandeur."

So he's a narcissist, just like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Not much of a surprise, really.

Oh, Homer does much more than be a bumbling idiot. He does what no one from Family Guy or South Park can really do: he manages to capture the essence of a character who is, at heart, really, truly good, who has a big heart, who tries his best to be honest and helping. He's not smart and he can even be a jerk at times, but in the end, we're rooting for him because he still means well, and when he gets hurt, it hurts us.