Except your analogy is dumb. This isn't buying a new car, this is more like getting invited down to the factory to try out a prototype of a new model they're still in the process of designing.
I mean gee, you'd almost think that this was an unfinished OS running on a Tablet that wasn't specifically designed to run it or something...
I've been using Linux and Windows varients professionally for over twenty years. I'm sorry to have to say it but Linux distros never really get past that functional prototype feeling. The mix of bleeding edge, inconsistent design, playing catch-up with commercial apps and "if you don't like it, fix it yourself" never fails to slightly disappoint.
Scientology is a cult, it's entire story is based off a science fiction novel written by man who wanted to make a religion! All of that would be fine but then to charge your members fees to read from books is kind of messed up, that would be like the library charging you based on every book you took out. I don't see how any logical adult can honestly see Scientology as anything but a joke, it's only slightly more a joke then the Mormon based religion, both of which have near 0 evidence for what they take as fact.
And Islam is the "revealed truth" that its prophet made up. And Christianity reveals the "word of God" through the medium of a mystic who thought he was the messiah. And the Buddha came up with his own ideas for a religion. I guess a non-cult religion is one derived millenia ago from various polytheistic myths (Hinduism, Shinto, Paganism) but somebody, somewhere made that stuff up too.
The union whores with an ever spiraling "living wage" are why Detroit is a third world shithole. Economics, motherfucker, do you speak it?
Before you argue--60 years of unions and democrats. Detroit CANNOT blame its failure on Bush.
So let me try to picture your de-regulated, un-unionised, robot-automated future. Not much room for the little people, is there? What are they supposed to do, go back to subsistence agriculture?
And anyway, what is American Military going to do, team up with Al Qaeda and Hezbollah to attack Syria and kill hundreds of thousands more people in the middle east?
Al-Qaeda and Hezbollah are not on the same side.
And this is exactly the reason the USA should stay out. The whole thing is a mess and there are no good guys. If Obama wants to topple Assad, does he have a clear idea of who he wants to win?
The Syrian Shia population is fighting an existential battle against Sunni jihadists. If they lose, they will be ethnically cleansed and the refugee crisis will double. If anything, the US should be supporting the Syrian government against these foreign-backed Islamist rebels.
I had a nickle for every time they told me they didnt know how their own software works I'd be richer than Bill Gates
If it takes them 10 secs to say that, and Bill Gates has 50 billion dollars, it would take you 16000 years to get that rich.
How difficult it is to port to, and support the different major distros, such as RHEL, Debian, Gentoo and Slackware? How about FreeBSD and NetBSD? Are there differences that would cause something developed for and ported to RHEL not to run on, say, Mint?
It's probably not difficult at all but it's just that our products are tested, delivered and supported on a small set of platforms. Can we run full system test on every distro?
Am I the only one here who likes porn? I would hate to have to make the call of shame.... "uh...isp...can you....uhh.....un block my pr0n?"
How many men share an internet connection with a woman who would wonder why the filter was turned off?
The major difference between bonds and bond traders is that the bonds will eventually mature.