It's the first time that living in one of the Five Eyes countries appears to have been beneficial.

It's a hollow victory.

... the last time I bought light bulbs. We're still working through our collection of 100W light bulbs. I'd like to switch to low energy ones, but we have to piss off the climate change liars somehow.

Anyway, when I did buy them, I paid in sterling, not in these dollar thingies being quoted in the vote. It doesn't make it clear if it means Canadian dollars or Australian ones, and that would make the value different.

The Earth was created 7000 years ago by some unknown but benign power, evolution doesn't exist - how can some equation possibly describe it using mathematics? Mathematics itself is obviously a made up tool anyway, so you can make it say whatever you want. They'll be using Empirical Science next to debunk what is clearly the One Truth. :)

But apart from that you think the extra long petrol pump is do-able?

We could get a shitload of fossil fuels and take it there (perhaps with a really -long- petrol pump pipe) and burn it off in the atmosphere, perhaps by driving lots of 4x4 SUV's. That should help ensure that Martian average temperatures rise nicely by 1 or maybe even 2 degrees Celsius in only a century.

... when do we rename it Dark Greenland?

According to empirical science you are correct, expansion of the universe is accelerating. If the reporter can't get the simplest bits right, how can we trust what they say about the complicated stuff. I'll file this one under 'load of old bollocks'.

Oh yes. +1 for this.

I bought two nook devices for 30 UK Pounds (must be around 45 USD) each when the line was closing. They're the 'simple touch' ones - that means they have an e-ink touch screen. I rooted mine immediately, and installed one or two extras - and a large memory card. Now I have an e-ink Android tablet, complete with the Kindle app (not that I ever use that) and all the apps I can eat. Not bad for 30 quid.

Not that I ever use it for anything but reading books. But I -could-.

I use Mate on my eeepc for exactly the same reason. It's been a while since I gave other DE's a chance on there, maybe it's time to look at icewm.

... but only one at a time.

But now, thanks to the Metropolitan Police, I've been made aware of it. That's the police having the -exact- opposite effect of the one they wanted!

Thanks, Mr Plod.

It's only the first part of a trilogy guys. The next instalment will be Wolfenstein: Joy Division, followed by Wolfenstein: The Smiths.

They've signed Morrisey up already!

And I play Steam games using AMD chip, I have an A8 with integrated graphics, and it does Left4Dead2 really well... I don't even use proprietary drivers, just the core ones that come with Fedora. I really don't know what the fuss is about. Crap drivers? My arse.

Good point. I understand that commercial OS vendors are equally as capable of f*cking up their DEs as the Open Source experts. However, I don't care about the commercial offerings. I -do- care about the DEs I actually use.

I thought when you updated your Open Source desktop environment project to a new release version, you were supposed to take all the really useful tools, features and usability models that had been refined for years and chuck them all in the bin leaving you with a horrible monstrosity that was near impossible to use (and then have it remain that way for at least four years).

Surely, KDE have got this badly wrong.