The starving poor steal things like brass garden taps. The gangs doing the copper cable theft are VERY well equipped.

The governments policy of only allowing political appointees (i.e utterly unqualified) to run anything they control is the bigger problem. The odds of being caught are extremely low and a huge number of state prosecutors are incompetent so conviction rates are not great. There is no incentive for the thieves to stop.

My Wife is a staunch catholic, I'm more FSM. It's never been an issue other than that the kids need to be raised catholic. On a side note we live in South Africa, and while no priest would publicly say "use condoms", they definitely do so privately.

His complaint is rubbish. You can already use greasemonkey to do what he wants as far as replacing the browsers scripts. Remember that javascript is plain text in the first place so it is basically open source so you can easily write a free client to gmail if you want to. BTW. there is already a gmail based fuse filesystem out there.

I have the greatest respect for the things RMS has achieved in the past, but he needs to retire from the public eye now. He just isn't in touch with modern technology anymore.

He's attacking it because Stallman's complaint doesn't really make a lot of sense to most users of web apps, and the reason it doesn't make much sense is directly related to the fact that Stallman is out of touch with reality because he doesn't use the very things he complains about.

Speaking as an African... You don't know what you are talking about. Most of the starvation is caused by dumb ass politicians. Zimbabwe on its own could probably feed most of Africa, unfortunately all the farms got stolen by Mugabe and "redistributed" which means given to the party faithful and families of politicians none of whom have a clue how to run a commercial farm.

All the rest of the starving countries have similar dumb political problems.

In central Africa the ground is so fertile you can literally toss an apple core on the ground and come back 3 weeks later to see an apple tree starting to grow.

Run properly Africa could probably feed most of the world.