You didn't use retard as a verb as it was clearly defined in your little snippet. You used it as a noun, and as a noun it has a different meaning the meaning you're getting beaten up for. Accept gracefully, and move on.

What do you mean to a lesser extent GNOME is heading in a similar direction? Just curious, because GNOME and Elementary share some close philosophical views on software use the same software stack.

This is a silly argument. Perhaps they don't want to beholden to Apple but would like a nicely designed OS with great apps without having to go through iTunes and what not. We can make this argument with just about anything else if we want. There are plenty of us who want to use free software because it is ethical and responsible.

They also hate designers. So, what do you do? There are a lot ore reasons why people are in Linux, some of it has nothing to do with well designed apps or eco-systems.

A lot of what you're talking about is being done in GNOME. In fact, GNOME tends to get flamed because in order to implement some of those things you have to break cultural norms. Breaking cultural norms will garner a lot of flames as people who like the status quo tend to quite upset even if they are not using GNOME. GNOME for instance is the first project to have visual designers and a culture where FOSS developers actually consult designers to get a pleasing designer. Not usual for a open source project.

There is not only an app store concept that is being developed, but also a sandboxing mechanism for better safety when you run your apps. On top of that, you should be able to use apps that have older libraries and so forth using a system that Lennart Poettering has come up with. Again though, we do have to change Unix cultural for some of these things.

Right now, we need to continually upgrade ourselves otherwise, it will be Android that wlll be the desktop of choice on Linux machines. In fact, even the identifier 'Linux' will be gone, nobody will even know that they are running Linux since FSF can't seem to come up with something better than 'GNU/Linux". *sigh*

Actually, hitting a button on your headset is easier. Your wrist is constantly in motion when you're running. Your head is relatively stationary so it is an easier target. While running you naturally swing your arms as a form of balance, to stop and try to use one hand to touch the other hand while maintaining a steady pace is awkward.

Or only pitbulls can kill people, cars, and rain.

This is so true. My wife, fixed our front loading washer looking at youtube video. You can even do tradesman craft if you know what you are doing.

Not really. These days, at least for big corps, they just scan that stuff in and then suck it into a database.

you're looking at over 30 years of Republican talking points starting from Reagan that has gotten into this state. Everything was about lowering taxes, and even though Reagan himself wasn't that crazy, everyone who followed him afterwards turned into something nuts. Now, some of this is of course resources and what not, but honestly, we need to change this thinking.

Yeah, that's true. But then nobody goes to college then you know what happens? They bring in immigrants who have the degrees. So, that is not going to work. You need to find a way to reduce the cost of middle management. That's where the real cost savings are. Not in workers.

yeah dudes, it totally happened like this.

After reading this comment, I'm sure I will be just as unimpressed with any pieces of paper that verify your intelligence.

whoa, skipped third grade? awesome.

Too bad someone downvoted you. That's most unfortunate. A reasonable comment to boot.