Snowden is the man. He accomplished what many previous whistleblowers attempted who were told "you don't have any proof, shut up." The shills who froth and scream traitor are on the side of evil, or they simply don't see that others had tried and failed and he did what he had to to expose the truth that needed exposing.

Big nerd with big balls, Snowden.

Surely the list must include the "Angry Fruit Salad" operating system that sucks worse than anything previously offered?

Yeah, I bought it cheap and I tried it. $40 and it sits unused currently because even after installing Classic Shell and doing a lot of unpaid work to fix what they broke, I still hate it.

Everybody has made fun of the garbage-can-like appearance. It does look pretty silly, but the design is innovative when you look at the innards. I guess if you want a really small desktop and you don't know about hard drive failure rates, then it could be an attractive choice.

Personally I don't like anything about it except for the dual-gpu support. I love the old Mac Pro / PowerMac G5 chassis series. Because I'm always like "fuck it, I've got room" when it comes to desktops and their largitude. I have a sweet hackintosh in a PowerMac G5 chassis that I custom-built and it's not as pretty inside but it can trounce several Mac Pro models in benchmarks while I paid less than half the price for it. And BTW when I say custom, I mean that Dremels and JB-weld were involved. It's fully ATX-motherboard-compliant now. I have room for 4 video cards and about 8 hard drives. I have 16GB quad-channel DDR3. It is a great case design for airflow and therefore overclockers.
Apple dropped the ball, when it comes to expandability, and that's what I liked about the Mac Pro design. Sad face.

you eloquent bastard, you have simply nailed the paradigm, and I applaud your truthiness

Also for the other person mentioning doing IT work for rape shelter stuff - I bet it wouldn't be very hard to find volunteer armed guards for those types of safe houses. I personally, having known a few abuse victims, would view sitting around with a shotgun to ward off rapist/beaters as an honorable task. That would be a good community-outreach-volunteer program to get going in a lot of places: volunteer rape victim guard services etc

yeah they don't last worth a shit anymore, WTF?

it would still look stupid if done with the "new comma" way or whatever they call the Anti-Oxford way, but they didn't even do that right because in that case it would have had to be "to repel water, ice, insects and other debris"

and the correct overall way would be "to repel water, ice, insects, and other debris"

Also this technology (not the commas) sounds pretty cool. I would like to have it all over my car so that no parts of it get dirty.

is not a rare element - "There is more titanium in the earth's crust than there is nickel, zinc, chromium, tin, lead, mercury, and manganese combined!" http://www.csa.com/discoveryguides/titanium/overview.php

Yes I second the mobile Carmageddon recommendation! It's just like the original game, except with semi-clumsy touchscreen controls but with more levels and more cars.

92/115 = 0.8 ratio != 20/40 = 0.5 ratio. See how stupid you sound? Also, trolling an obvious joke with insults....

Nobody even brought up the monitor refresh rate.

Oh gosh I hope this doesn't result in some poor sap attempting to play Battlefield 4.7 and while thinking they should achieve a pure 115fps they only hit a measly 92fps and their lives are ruined forever. The consequences will never be the same.

Source on the tanker claim?

Also FYI the octane requirement can be related to timing advance, where a lower-compression turbocharged engine with more advanced timing would need higher octane gas to make longer burns from each spark (higher octane gas burns longer than lower octane gas). The earlier spark sets off a longer-burn time of gas timed to the timing, needing the longer-burn ability of the 92+ octane. An old simple truck with 0 BDC timing would be happy with 87 octane, where a newer engine with 15 BDC timing advance would be better with 92+ octane.

Fuck this is way off topic from hard drives, sorry. Just needed to fill in some missing info.

As for hard drives, the more, the better. RAID is for safety now, and SSD's are for speed where we used to have RAID-0. ETC

What about the secret bones in their basement??

I hear they have bones of a long-dead race of giants with multiple rows of teeth and stuff.

in that case you would presume incorrectly. Gun safety is not a gray area of risk, like speeding is.

I have said for years that we should have a tiered system of drivers' licenses, allowing for more advanced drivers to drive faster or use a better lane or similar benefit

Don't bring your Nazi stereotypes down to cover us all, freund von mir. See what I did there? You are all Nazis. Just kidding, I know it's a terrible thing to say but this is the Internet and it's funny to say such things with no repercussion.

Some of us can drive, is my real point. My vehicles are not in good enough shape for daily 100+MPH speeds, but I do maintain above 75 regularly and all the while obeying the important road rules like use of turn signals, minimum safe braking distance, proper lane usage (keep right unless passing and no faster cars are approaching in the left etc).

It is true that an unfortunate amount of people don't obey the basic road rules because there are no license re-tests and they forgot how all the important details work with regard to the symbols and orders years ago. But that's just a symptom of general ignorance. A lot of these same ignorant people also drive too slow.