... yeah, that was pretty much my point. The Puritans were really into you doing exactly what they said would bring about the "good of the many", as they interpreted it, and to hell with your ideas (and freedoms) to the contrary.

You have a very mistaken idea of how bad jail is.

The major difference is that a private company can't arrest me and put me in jail. Government can.

If the state didn't have the power to do this stuff, it wouldn't matter whose interests it served. It's been almost 400 years, and we still have to put up with the damned Puritans' idiotic belief that you can make perfect human beings if you just swing the hammer of the state hard enough.

I'm not talking about the pols, I'm talking about the population. Black society is very anti-gay, for example.

Mississippi is approximately 38% black, and routinely elects raging conservatives to every single national office. Some are Republicans, and some are Democrats, but every single one of them is nominally pro-life and anti-gay. The black ones much more so than the white ones, actually.

Whole Foods sells all manner of sugar-laden crap.

A million fully refundable first-class round trips to Barcelona.

"Hey, hang out here and talk with us a bit, whether it works out or not we'll fly you to Barca in Zuck's private jet."

Really not a hard negotiation tactic.

I'll join the karma bonfire. Come on over to Soylent News and enjoy actual news for nerds.

4 was the one nobody used. DOS 5 actually had a lot of neat features that 3.3 and 4 didn't.

Also, fuck beta.

At least the prior fuckups didn't completely kill usability.

Fuck beta.

What was wrong with DOS 5? Fuck beta.

Let's just say that your experience is several standard deviations beyond the mean. I don't know anyone who uses an email client (even I don't, but I also treat email as completely insecure). I'm probably the only person I work with who even knows how to set up an email client with encryption. Most people are completely in the dark about security.