In bed by 10:00p! Staying up until midnight, the most overrated tradition ever.

What utter bullshit. If all of the Jews in Germany had been armed and had decided in 1934 to resist Hitler they still would have been killed, armed Jewish resistance wouldn't have made the Nazis back down, it would have given them the excuse they needed to start the Holocaust a few years earlier. Or let's take the example of the Japanese American internment. What do you think would have happened if Japanese Americans had decided to arm themselves and resist deportation to camps such as Manzanar? Would the government have backed down on deporting the Japanese Americans if a couple of prominent advocates of internment, say Earl Warren, the AG of California at the time, and FDR, had been assassinated by Japanese Americans? No, given the racist tenor of the times the Japanese Americans would have been slaughtered.

That leaves removing the opportunity... which also can't be done, not completely, but the window of opportunity can be dramatically reduced if the potential victims have access to the tools and skills they need to fight back.

Oh, so you're a member of the "let's arm the children crowd". Guess what, you're full of shit. Being trained and having guns didn't prevent four Lakewood police officers from being gunned down by Maurice Clemmons. Having a bunch of guys with guns around them didn't prevent Ronald Reagan and James Brady from being shot in 1981. You need to pull your head out of your ass and stop masturbating to Death Wish.

Or the means, or the opportunity. Removing the means for mass murder is impossible, because there are so very many ways to do it, and all of those means have alternative, productive, useful uses to the non-mass-murdering segment of society.

Bullshit. Fully automatic weapons were banned in 1934 and guess what, no one has been going around and shooting up schools with fully automatic weapons because they're not available to the average nutjob. Enforcing a ban on semi-automatic weapons would be difficult but could be done. At the very least the government could just ban their sale to private citizens and ban sales and transfers of existing semi-automatic weapons. If you already have a semi-automatic weapon you get to keep it, but nobody else gets to buy a Bushmaster and you can't sell your Bushmaster to anyone else. And guess what gun nutz, if you read Scalia's opinion in DC versus Heller this would be entirely constitutional.

Or the government could just ban sales of semi-automatic weapons with detachable magazines. This would be entirely legal and constitutional under Heller. You want a semi-automatic rifle for hunting, hey, you can buy an M1 Garand and have eight shots, which is all you need for hunting. If you need a weapon for defending your house you can buy a revolver, and if you can't resolve a home defense situation with six shots or less then you probably shouldn't have a gun at all.

You're just blustering and repeating right-wing NRA talking points and blowing smoke up everyone's ass.

Wow, spoken like a true racist dogfucker. Let me guess, you're also one of those fucktards who believes that President Obama is a Kenyan Muslim Socialist.

Yes, have you ever heard of Oracle Enterprise Linux? Oracle went out and took RedHat Linux, added OCFS2 and other Oracle enhancements and started selling OEL. Oh, and if you were already licensing Oracle for your database OEL was compelling because it meant that you had one less throat to choke if you were trying to solve a problem with the system and because it was cheaper to add support for OEL to your Oracle license than it was to purchase a support contract from RedHat. Needless to say RedHat was not happy about this but there wasn't anything they could do about it except suck it up and watch as they lost customers to Oracle. Now Oracle has a brilliant business model here. Develop a proprietary product and then let someone else develop an operating system that your product runs on and then you copy their OS and use it to drive sales for your product.

Yeah, and RedHat doesn't (and can't) stop anyone from redistributing its OS. Since CentOS already does it for them, and since non-commercial users use Fedora, they don't have to bother too much about that.

A few years ago I worked for a company that was running Oracle on RedHat. We reached a point where it was time to buy new servers and instead of buying RedHat licenses we bought licenses for Oracle Enterprise Linux, which is basically RedHat Linux except someone downloaded the RedHat source and ran

find . -type f -exec sed -i -e "s/Red Hat/Oracle/g"

Man the RedHat rep was pissed off when I told him that we were switching to OEL from RedHat. I got a big lecture on how Oracle was just piggy-backing on all of RedHat's hard work. It was rather hilarious.

So you hacked together something based upon the Tanenbaum book. Big fucking deal. Just because you created a kernel and boot loader in x86 ASM in two weeks doesn't mean that it was worth a shit. If creating a kernel is so fucking easy then why didn't the GNU project have one back in the late 1980s? Well there are two reasons, one because creating a real kernel for an OS that's going to run in the real world is fairly difficult, regardless of whether or not it's a "micro" kernel or a "monolithic" one, and of course because the GNU project spent three years dicking around and waiting for a license for the Mach Microkernel to become available. But eventually that issue was resolved and as soon as it was GNU wrote a kernel and shipped it right? No, GNU has spent 20 years fucking around with the Hurd, and even after twenty years it's still a piece of shit that nobody uses. So on the one hand you have Linus Torvalds who was able to put together a working monolithic kernel using the GNU tools in a fairly short period of time. On the other hand you have the GNU project, who developed the GNU tools (and you'd think that this would give them an advantage) and who have had over 20 years to develop a kernel and the best that they can do is the Hurd. Oh, and yeah, people develop monolithic kernels all the time because monolithic kernels work and have decent performance. Mach was a great idea and a cool project but Mach kernels never delivered on their initial promise of improved performance and most operating systems that claimed to use Mach based kernels (OSF/1) were actually using hybrid kernels that combined features from Mach with a more traditional monolithic kernel design.

*Windoze crashed constantly when I used it. The acronym BSOD is a household name, because of that "stability" on the MS desktop.

Have you ever considered that perhaps your system had bad hardware, or that perhaps you're just a fucking retard who can't get a Windows system to work?

*OSX is a Unix based OS. It is, by its very design, in the same league as Linux.

Wow, and here you were accusing someone else of inane babbling. OS X is not in the same league as Linux. OS/X is based upon BSD, which, under the hood, is completely different from Linux. OS/X has a great GUI. Linux GUIs are stupid, derivative and bloated. Apple spends lots of time making sure that all of the components of OS/X work with each other, they aren't perfect but they're a Hell of a lot better than any Linux distro out there. When Apple updates a major component of the system, such as the init manager they do it right. Migrating to launchd was transparent and painless, things just worked. Compare and contrast this to the fucked up and retarded way that the dickheads at Ubuntu grafted Upstart on to Debian. Upstart has been shipping with every Ubuntu distro since Lucid, and it's still buggy as Hell and even now, after almost three years there aren't any third party packages that support it. Linux does have better memory management than MacOS X, although that's not saying much, and if you've never had OOM killer fuck up something important then you obviously haven't run too many Linux systems, and it has better filesystems available (XFS) and it's had logical volume management since 2001, whereas Apple didn't introduce volume management until MacOS Lion (10.7).

Yes, I've used both, and I've been using Linux for almost 20 years now and do you know what? It's a shitty desktop operating system. Linux on the desktop fucking sucks ass, Ubuntu is every bit as stupidly bloated as anything Microsoft has ever shipped, don't believe me? Well go install Ubuntu without a GUI and then add Gnome or KDE and watch as Ubuntu downloads several gigabytes of dependencies and loads your system up with crap. And what do you get? A piece of shit desktop that's basically just a ripoff of what Microsoft and Apple are doing, except that it's a piss poorly implemented ripoff. Then there's the fact that Linux has bugs and for the most part companies that sell Linux aren't any better at fixing those bugs than Microsoft or Apple. Canonical certainly isn't. I've been using Ubuntu for the last three years. Upstart is still a buggy, fucked up piece of shit, if you want services to start reliably on a Linux system, you end up having to edit the Upstart scripts in /etc/init, because otherwise Upstart is too fucking stupid to properly mount your NFS filesystems and you end up with orphaned inodes because Upstart doesn't properly unmount the root filesystem before the system is shut down. These are major bugs that were reported over two years ago and they still haven't been fixed. I keep hearing all of you fucking Linux fanbois bitching about how bad Microsoft is but you never bring stuff like this up, either because you're dishonest or you're just ignorant little shits who aren't actually using Linux in a production environment and but who think that because you installed it at home you're super duper 1337. Linux does a lot of things really well. Linux virtualization with libvirt/KVM is amazing. It's not as fully featured as VMware yet, but it's made huge leaps and bounds in the last three years. Companies such as Tivo and DataDomain have shown that Linux is a great operating system for dedicated devices. Companies such as Amazon run on Linux and have been for over a decade. But Linux on the desktop fucking sucks, it's nothing more than stupid, bloated, imitative shit.

For being a skilled developer, I can't believe he would not think that Dev/Test/Prod build environments not running the same version of the compiler was not an issue (Obviously, until it was an issue).

That's Development Cycle 101.

"Michigan lawmakers just approved a right-to-work law in an effort to dismantle union power, but humans are already becoming irrelevant."

There, fixed that for you.

No, paying the benefit when you promise it is one thing, paying it 75 years in advance is another. Yes, they are paying for retirement benefits for people who are not even born yet.

Look deeper into this problem instead of yelling "OMG, GUBER'MENT IS BAD".

Because Predator Drones are made in San Diego, California.

I just looked this up, but Amazon EC2 does not charge for INCOMING traffic. With a properly configured Webserver with security modules, the traffic comes in, but never goes out.

And no one is going to flood Amazon.com off the 'net.