There is no ZERO floor in a house.

I take it you have never been to Europe?

That's a nice excuse for /usr/bin but it is not true. /usr was intended to be user-owned directories, and all the commands a user was expected to type would reside in /bin (and .). Early AT&T Unix systems had multiple disks and made "/usr" be the "big" one, since they mistakenly thought that documents and things users worked on would be far larger than the system. Then what happened is the system disk filled up as more and more commands were added, and they needed space to put more commands, and since $PATH meant the "/bin" was not hard-coded in most places so it was easy to search other directories, and the lack of symbolic links or union mounts at the time meant the only way to put something on the /usr disk was to make it a directory under /usr, they added /usr/bin and started populating that. Eventually this also happened with libraries and /usr/lib was added.

Some people then started the excuse that /bin was for "system binaries" as opposed to "user binaries" but the distinction was pretty random. Not only that, /bin eventually filled up with "system binaries" and they had to add /usr/sbin!

Eventually so much stuff was put in /usr that people stopped putting home directories there. A different directory allowed them to be on a different disk than the system which was now about 90% under /usr/bin and /usr/lib. Almost everybody used $HOME rather than any hard-coded values so this was possible to change. First /users was the new directory but this was changed to /home more recently).

He's referring to the Coors "Silver Bullet" ads.

There was an Onion article about the disastrous derailment of one of those bullet trains that caused mass casualties of young hip partying people.

I think that is exactly the sort of thing they are talking about when it says previous studies had "weak adjustment for confounders".

Actually the behavior of Home/End is one of the few things that still varies between Mac and PC and between various PC apps. Some have them move to the end of the line, some to the end of the document. A few that move to the end of the line move to the end of the document when you press them a second time.

Up to this point, most people considered ISIS to be human. They were someone that could be negotiated with.

What?!?! I don't think that is true at all.

We all saw the wounded police officer shot in the head.

Actually, no. I only saw a version where the police officer was blurred out and it cut before the shot. This was on several stations in both here in the US and in France.

The income tax percentage is graduated based on the income level and thus varies. In addition most deductions and refunds are fixed amounts and not any kind of percentage of income. This is a basic understanding that everybody has, so your attempt at humor fails completely because you are not extrapolating or exaggerating from any assumed situation or proposal.

You also screwed up with your $15/hour statement. After much analysis I figured out that you were talking about "people who *want* the minimum wage to be $15/hour", but your wording sounded like "the correct amount is 100% for people making $15/hour". That seems absurdly high so I thought you were making some kind of joke, but boy was I stumped as to what it was. I think you also seem ignorant of the fact that the minimum wage *is* $15/hour in some places.

In any case your attempt at humor was pretty dismally bad. You should maybe not try.

I'm not using a $ in Microsoft's name. My complaint is that the knee-jerk responders are the ones who look immature. They should be able to ignore it but it apparently it sooo annoys them that they cannot help but make fools of themselves by responding.

For those relative few that do significant driving off public roads, they can use a GPS tracker.

That is a very sensible solution (only people who want to prove they are not using the public roads would need to install one). Probably means it will never happen.

No I didn't.

I am serious. There is a set of people who are so upset by the appirations of "M$" that they knee-jerk respond, and ALWAYS use the word "childish". Every single time. Yet actual childish actions, like calling somebody a 'fucking retard' or silly insults of Microsoft like calling it "microshit" are ignored. It seems they are desperate to try to stop something that bothers them and realizing it is hopeless.

If it actually was "childish" then IGNORING it would be the correct response.

Reading comprehension much? The negative income tax he was proposing was a fixed amount (500/month for 22+ years old, for instance). The opposite end (money paid to the goverment) would be a percentage of your income.

Whether a negative income tax is a good idea or not, you should not post such stupid responses indicating that you completely did not understand it.

Ohhh! The "childish" retort! I have not seen that in a while.

It's really interesting that somebody can say "Microshit" and nobody jumps up and down and rants and cries "childish! Childish! Childish!".

But when they say "M$" you shit your diapers and start yelling. CHILDISH! CHILDISH! CHILDISH! I insist it is Childish!!!!! Childish!

Give it up. It is obvious you is childish.

Every single manufacturer of Android phones has been threatened enough to pay up.

More to the point, if this really is the MIT license then (unlike the previous Microsoft "open source" licences) you can in fact combine it with GPL code. So he should not be complaining because it is just as useful as GPL code.