I have to disagree. VirtualBox has the makings of a good product, but right now is too buggy and unreliable to be used in a production environment.

Most of the unreliability that I've encountered stems from virtual disk management. For example, if you have a virtual machine with a CD ISO mounted, what happens if you stop that machine and delete the ISO? This:

VM cannot start because the hard disk '/home/seizurebattlerobot/.VirtualBox/VDI/Windows Vista.vdi' is not accessible (Could not access hard disk image '/home/seizurebattlerobot/.VirtualBox/VDI/Windows Vista.vdi' (VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)).

Result Code:
NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component:
Console
Interface:
IConsole {ddc6fda1-a435-45ca-b43d-f9e88746e53e}

The only way to get the machine into a usable state again is to manually edit the virtual machine definition, which is a lot more complex than one would immediately think. Just look at the VirtualBox bug tracker for some horror stories.

The disk snapshot feature is also a mess and can result in data loss if you are not extremely familiar with how the underlying implementation works. The GUI dialogs that control snapshots are poorly documented and are definitely not production quality.

It is also not possible to shrink a virtual disk that uses snapshots. Normal GUI based activity has resulted in an inconsistent snapshot tree state that has caused data loss for me numerous times.

In short, I would recommend VirtualBox for anyone that wants a virtualization sandbox to play around in. To anyone concerned about data integrity, hates troubleshooting obscure and difficult to track down error messages, or wants to use disk snapshots at all, I would recommend waiting a few years before considering VirtualBox.

"Life sucks" is a valid sentiment only when the suffering cannot be responsibility of someone else. But if someone went out of their way, and documented that it is their responsibility? Well then, that person deserves to be convicted as much on being an idiot as being intentionally cruel and harmful to another person.

As a society we have to ask ourselves whether or not a citizen has the right to make another uncomfortable with their speech. Today, I believe that we are swinging more and more toward a society that disallows uncomfortable speech.

I hope to one day live in a society that accepts freedom of speech in all its forms, no matter how uncomfortable, sad, jealous, or angry it might make the listeners.

He is wrong, of course. If he was right, the Neo-Nazis and other such groups would also die under the heat lamp of the internet... the Scientologists would fail to gain traction and influence as well.

I think that you're comparing apples to oranges. Neo-Nazism and Scientology gained power before the Internet was in wide use. Internet access exposes people and ideas to a worldwide debate that weakens the power of ridiculous and hypocritical ideologies to take root in society. As internet adoption grows, the power of stupid ideas will only diminish.