You can buy cheap water in any super market.
But beer?? Beer is pure and the symbol of nature and life. We need to watch Football (no, I don't mean your stupid handegg!). Do you want to destroy German culture? Do you want that we go back to Naziland times? It is unacceptable to destroy beer. Isn't it obvious?
I can't speak to the German situation so well. Hopefully they handle it better.
No we don't. The German government is full of lobbyists. And we are ruled by politicians who don't give a flying fart about people (CDU/CSU party), only about bigger corporations.
Also, there is no (native) Flash for FreeBSD and I don't like to clutter my system with any Linux compatibility layers.
I think that browser plugins are deprecated technology from the 90s. I cannot remember if I ever had Flash installed. Maybe I had it once because it was (pre)installed automatically on some systems. But I can live without it since... ehm... the first time I've had access to internet(sometime in the 90s?).
Everyone who likes Unix-like systems won't install any lennartware on his system. Everything I ever installed which was written by Lennart Poettering does not work. Beware... he also has his fingers in the Fedora distribution.
systemd causes extremely weird behavior of the hardware (simple things like the power switch do not work anymore, cannot shutdown the PC anymore, even after pressing the power switch for 5 seconds! wtf??).
The pulseaudio stuff never worked for me... consequently I install my whole system directly on alsa, because I need sound support and no choking applications. Sometimes you cannot even login, because some desktop environments want to play the start sound.
Avahi is pure shit... networking is even less confusing without it. Avoiding it means: less confusing system. And think about it: actually it comes from "zeroconf" which suggest that everything is easier.
xdg-system is simply annoying. I have never seen any software using such a weird kind of logic: try Gnome/KDE/... start facilities, not supported, then open file with $BROWSER (this isn't even a well-known environment variable), if $BROWSER is not set, use Firefox... wtf??!! When I don't have Firefox... this is bad and when I already open the URI in Firefox it is just worse! xdg is actually doing nothing that is useful.
Please Lennart... use brain when developing applications.
I have never understood it. When I have pulseaudio running many processes which try to play music stop, because they are waiting for the sound device to become idle. This was also the reason why Gnome could not be able to login.
When using FreeBSD I even switch all this Linux daemon crap off. OSS can do audio mixing natively and I have never had problems with it... I even did not know about all the problems which exist on Linux with all these audio daemons. This seems to be a total mess.
Why does SMART suck?
When I watch the SMART values and events I can tell about 3 weeks in advance before a hard drive fails. Also, the manufacturers watch the SMART values to check if a replacement can be offered or if you made some mistake.
To me SMART does not lie, but reports too much. It reports every replaced sector which is totally unimportant, especially when you buy a new hard drive, you will find faulty sectors in 50% of cases (quite normal). The hard drive with few faulty sectors on day one will function for decades correctly.
The only person for whom liquids are dangerous me and when they are not available to me. Because of kidney problems, my doctor prescribed me to drink at least 4 litres of water a day. And the water has to have special components. The problem is that during the flight the crew didn't react when I told them I need to drink really much. I got 2 cups of water in 14 hours.
This is dangerous to me. I need my special water and lots of it.
He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. -- Bion