Find me a distro that works well on a surface pro 2. Seriously, I have been searching, but I have to give up too much of what makes the SP2 good to use linux.

I am going to call BULLSHIT on this. Cite your source and it better be more then a fucking friend told me.

Well since I have a Surface Pro 2 and I actively hate windows 8.1, I am putting it on as I type this.

in what ways does windows 7 fit your needs that windows 10 does not?

No, they can't.

The patent office just issues patents, they think the courts are where those type of disputes should be handled. The courts think that since the patent office issued the patent it must be valid.

You have two sides, neither of which are doing their job because they figure the other is.

There are patents for tables, but the patents aren't about them being tables. They all are something else the table does, the most common being the extensible table, like the Schwartz. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... . Now you go ahead and tell me that does not deserve a patent.

But i'd buy Slash Media just so I could fire the ass hats at SourceForge who try to monetize other peoples work. No we won't want your nagware, we never have and never will.

That would solve my slashdot habit. I ban flash on my network

How many of the threats and posts wishing people were raped or killed did you personally condemn? Di you stand behind releasing peoples home addresses as a valid argument? These are what you consider ethical acts? When you threaten your opponent with physical harm in a debate about ethics, you lose the debate.

So it really is worth nothing then?

There is a reason no one defended the idiot gamergate punks. You guys made sure you were indefensible. When no one called out the threats and the doxing you proved you had no moral leg to stand on. Not to mention that most of your allegations were proved false. It was your own actions that drowned out your words.

Yes, because your country is not doing the same exact thing (albeit with a smaller budget).

a third, and usually a 4th. Drawn, hanged and quartered (with a tad bit of live disembowelment added for good measure)

You think watching porn on a work computer is "highly outrageous and unimaginable to anybody"?? What the hell are you doing on slashdot? I am pretty sure I have never worked anywhere where I did not come across porn in someone's history, and I bet the same could be said for the numerous sysadmins here.