So you're saying it is impossible to have flooding near the coast and drought inland at the same time? The world is bigger than your back yard.

If you want a paper trail, you're going to have to go find a paper trail. In the days of Alta Vista and Infoseek you were lucky if you found something that actually matched your keywords, and Google doesn't index the Wayback Machine for obvious reasons.

When you want to buy something at Target, do you drive up and down every road looking for a store that might be Target, or do you go to the address where Target is?
When you want to get groceries, do you drive around randomly looking for signs that say "grocery store" or do you go straight to the street address of the local H-E-B, Kroger, Publix, or whatever?

The same applies to web sites. When you want to order a laptop, you check the sites of businesses you know that sell laptops (Dell, HP, Amazon, NewEgg, Fry's), or you go to a shopping comparison site (which, guess what, has a brand name as their domain!).

Search engines have absolutely not reduced the importance of domain names.

In the late 90's, domains were practically free. In fact, lots of places "sold" free domains (actual .com and .net, not just subdomains). He didn't do anything hazardous.

You're confused. It actually costs $30-$50 less to get internet access without also getting cable, because cable + internet is upwards of $90 after tax, while internet is under $60, even after the stupid "for the first 12 months" bullshit.

Clearly a legitimately ad-laden non-.gov NORAD site.

Th*s *s ge**i*g ri*ic*ulou*. P***s* s*o* censoring random fucking letters of random fucking words. Your audience consists of people who are permitted on the internet, and therefore damn well better be fucking able to handle some fucking instances of fucking pro-fucking-fanity without fucking aster-fucking-isks in the fucking middle. Get my fucking point, fuckers?

Right, my semi-closed system must be worse than your semi-closed system... FFS, any dev can upload their app to both, if they want both sets of users.

Do you get one whole tent if you put a thousand millitents together?

The major distro I'm using, which is included in "all of them", has absolutely no requirement for me to use systemd, nor is it the default init system. So, why is it that you think "all of them" are switching? Sounds like more blind promotion of change for the sake of change.

The problem with systemd and its supporters like you is that you think change and progress are the same thing. This change is regress.

Defense is not criminal. They have every right to not let parasites leech off of their work.

Defense is not malicious. They have every right to not let parasites leech off of their work.

Defense is not malicious. They have every right to not let parasites leech off of their work.

And there's absolutely nothing wrong with it being intentional, unless you're claiming that parasites deserve to leech FTDI's work.