The problem is that most people selected would probably lack the expertise required to deal with matters of law.

That Schrier guys actually posts on NeoGAF, a gaming forum, and he complains that people won't let him live this down, even though he later apologized. The "apology" was basically one line of "ok, I shouldn't have called the artist a hormonal teenager, but..." and then he just talks about how right he is. Personally I'm glad to see people lose credibility in the long term for their clickbaiting. Games are starting to be important enough that people discuss them as art and talk about their social impact, we don't need people destroying the discussion by shouting their poorly-reasoned opinions to get more clicks.

It's honestly really nice. Usually these kinds of discussions are dominated by people loudly making appeals to emotion, but here, it's mostly reasonable comments that are visible. I'd say it also has a lot to do with the kind of people who visit this site.

Even if it weren't, you know what it means, so clearly this non-word is doing its job.

The fact that they are openly celebrating this is quite disgusting and removes any credibility they might have had. Yeah, put me in the camp of people who aren't going to cry if people stop visiting this site.

So, does Betteridge's law of headlines apply here?

Yup, the NSA is insane or stupid if they think people will trust this.

Your post makes me sad. I have been adding --ignore skype to my package manager update commands since version 4.3 requires you to have pulseaudio. I game on my machine and pulseaudio causes issues in multiple games, so I'm not about to install that. Especially since pulseaudio is such a pain when it comes to starting on its own. I'll stick with ALSA. I guess that means I'm going to have to uninstall skype. Will use the tablet until I can convince people to use another solution... So basically, damn you Microsoft for trying to force me to use pulseaudio! ALSA was doing a perfect job, not sure why they dropped support.

Yes, I should have added "proprietary" in there. Although we should still be vigilant even with open source, it's very realistic I think that they might be trying to subtly add vulnerabilities to open source software.

Good point. How can anyone trust hardware and software coming from the states? Although when it comes to software, I'm sure that the NSA's people will be quite busy with trying to find security holes into whatever the Chinese decide to go with.

Up to now, they've been banning proprietary products for the benefit of more open ones. I know that we like to show China as a country with isolationist tendencies, but I'm not sure the glove fits on this one. I don't think choosing not to get screwed by Microsoft or Apple is such a bad thing.

The wiki for Archlinux is pretty much the best source of information on the web for linux, as far as I'm concerned. It's valuable even if you're not running Archlinux, with detailed guides for configuration of many FOSS programs.

Do I really have to explain to you that the word freeloader is pejorative? Also, don't do that "quote piece by piece" thing. It prevents you from seeing the big picture and basically pigeonholes you into nitpicking. Every question you asked is answered in the comment I already made, if you take it as a whole. There's a reason this is frowned upon in forums.

You weren't kidding. I just downloaded gedit just to see. There's one option button. You can basically open files, save files, print them, hilight syntax, find and replace and see document statistics. That's certainly... spartan.

The problem is your claim that vim is the lowest common denominator. You could certainly argue, if you wanted, that vim is too obtuse for the majority of users, that its learning curve is so steep as to render it useless for most of them. But you can't deny that vim is powerful. Someone who masters vim will get the job done faster, by virtue of almost every command being just one keystroke away. The speed gained from being able to format large sections of text in just a few keystrokes is very noticeable. There will always be room for options that are harder to master but rewarding once mastery is achieved. vim is that option. I don't see what's wrong with that.