I don't think that was his point.

Whenever the constitution (or anything involving the founding of the US) gets discussed, conservatives drag the founders into the discussion, arguing that they did or did not mean X when they wrote Y. As if the founders were somehow wise sages, and we're not worthy. The reality is that they were fallible people with their own bad and nasty sides. Just because they would not have agreed with something is no reason not to do it.

At least, that's what I think the point was.

Out of mod points atm, so I'll just post: +1: Spot on.

Speaking as the system administrator for a large DCS system: the OS will be no good without a complete redesign of the application level software. The problem is not really the OS, but the fact that in order to make everything work together 'automagically', there are hardcoded service accounts, and much of the app executables (which are often executed with system permissions) are writable because the entire installation folder is writable. And of course, the controllers that do perform all control actions use a protocol whose only real claim to security is obscurity.

And from what I can tell, the system I manage is fundamentally no different in that regard from DCS or SCADA systems from other vendors. While it is true that a secure-by-design would be a good place to start, the main problem atm is that the application architecture is hopelessly insecure.

Or by chance ended up looking after a kid who is just calm / tame. My youngest daughter is a lot calmer than my oldest.
And the kids of friends of ours were a lot calmer as well. When I told them that they had a small hole in the fence where a toddler could crawl through, their reaction was 'that's ok, our boy doesn't go crawling through holes'. I know they are correct because their kids are like tamed animals. My daughter spent all of 5 minutes in that garden, and then stood on the other side of the fence.

+1

When my oldest daughter started walking, she skipped the phase where they hobble and wobble, and went straight to the phase where she ran like Carl Lewis.
Almost every year she wins the inter-school runing competition, and she's always finished top 3. She is faster than any kid from her birthyear.
She is also the kid that was always seeing if there were no holes in the fence for her to crawl through, or ways to escape and do a runner.
And at age 2 she could use ladders or just climb the fence.

With a couple second head start, it would be a run to catch her again. She could easily be across half a parking lot in that time.
People who say things like the GP probably haven't spent much time with small children.

360 degrees means you're looking directly at the xbox again ...

It is greener because
a) you don't have to cool entire rooms, just the servers. So there is much less heat dissipation.
b) heat transfer from metal to liquid and then liquid to metal is more efficient than having a heat transfer from metal to air, and then air to metal.

Is it really too much to ask that a basic piece of hardware is supported at a basic level, by a mainstream distro?
I'm not even talking about 3D acceleration or complex setups. The guy was trying to configure a basic desktop.

Why should something like screen resolution and basic display functionality still require tinkering and a different configuration that is different between distros?
Don't go off on the user and his 'crying when his idiot distro doesn't work'. It's 2012. If distros still can't agree on a standard way to do trivial things like that, something is wrong, and it's not the user.

If I heard someone in a bar bragging about having sex with a kid (and I don't mean 19 years old with a 17 year old, but say 13) then yes, many people including myself would report you, because I happen to think that an adult having sex with a child is wrong. The alternative would be to forever live with the idea that I knew a 13 year old was being abused, and didn't do anything when I had the chance. I think most people I know would have the same reaction.

Now as I said, I am not arguing about technicalities like having sex with someone who is in your age bracket, but clear examples of pedophilia.

Mmmm...
So I am a sick inhuman bastard because I think that pedophiles are the scum of the earth, while the actual pedophiles molesting kids are not?
It almost seems you are arguing that we should be 'progressive' and condone pedophilia?

So you're essentially working ridiculous hours for free, because to quit means you won't get the pittance you're owed for having worked ridiculous hours for the last 2.5 years (which you are not getting anyway)? You could quit now and still come out ahead because the pay would be the same.

And seriously: 6400 per year? You could earn more and get better hours for less work, just flipping burgers at mcdonalds.
Are you sure you didn't leave out a 0?

And no. Without any sort of experience, you won't get hired. And with your job schedule, you won't ever have time to get some experience. Quit your job and go flip burgers while doing a couplr of small projects for local people or businesses.

Well, nothing much has changed since you left, whenever that was. Each group is still convinced they are the real Belgians, and that the other ones are inferior. I don't know how up to date you are on Belgian politics, but in case you aren't: the previous government formation lasted well over a year before there was a coalition.

Anything involving language is not likely to change any time soon.

It scales better because it has no license fee?
The force is strong in this one...

Well, I suppose that if you pull the parking brake while driving at speed, it becomes an emergency?

The bombings happened on different days. The Japanese had several days to surrender, which they didn't.

From wikipedia:
Together with the United Kingdom and the Republic of China, the United States called for a surrender of Japan in the Potsdam Declaration on 26 July 1945, threatening Japan with "prompt and utter destruction". The Japanese government ignored this ultimatum, and two nuclear weapons developed by the Manhattan Project were deployed. Little Boy was dropped on the city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, followed by the Fat Man over Nagasaki on 9 August

The Japanese government still did not react to the Potsdam Declaration. Emperor Hirohito, the government, and the war council were considering four conditions for surrender --snip--
The Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov had informed Tokyo of the Soviet Union's unilateral abrogation of the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact on 5 April. The senior leadership of the Japanese Army began preparations to impose martial law on the nation, with the support of Minister of War Korechika Anami, in order to stop anyone attempting to make peace . --snip--

This doesn't read like they were ready to surrender.