Ever listen to football commentary or basketball? Its all color commentary or idiotic observations like "team X won because they scored more points"... no shit, fucktards.

You must have lousy sports coverage in your town, or maybe you just haven't listened to a game in a long time. You get continual analytics in most cases, and statistics that actually mean something. Occasionally, you'll get a fossil like Hawk Harrelson who's just a curmudgeon but even in that case, they teamed him with Steve Stone, who can break down pitch location, OBP, WAR numbers, BABIP, FIP and xFIP.

At least in this town, it's the same for basketball and football, though there haven't been as many advanced statistics developed for those sports. Maybe it's just because Bill James got the ball rolling (sorry) sooner for baseball. But all the announcers are pros and not a single one will give you the kind of obvious nonsense you describe.

Even the hockey coverage in town, whether you're listening to John Weideman and Troy Murry on the radio or Eddie Olczyk on TV, these are guys who will drop numbers on you and give you insights you probably wouldn't have noticed even if you were sitting behind the glass.

Naw man, there hasn't been a "Team X won because they scored more points" in a long while.

We don't need analytics

But people who pay attention to e-Sports and aren't dumb fucks like you might have an interest in analytics. Some people who are interested in video games care about more than whether the female announcer is showing cleavage. One minute you talk about how e-Sports announcers are so great because they give you the "micro" in Starcraft, and then you say you don't need analytics. Do you know what anaylytics are? And did I mention that you're a dumb fuck?

Some of those apps are probably really profitable. If you're somebody who likes to listen to lectures and you're not one of the 0.00001% of nerds who use xposed, to turn your screen off while YouTube plays costs $120/yr for a subscription (the feature is non-technically tied to Google Play Music).

There might some apps that have in-app purchase fees higher than $10/mo to keep going, but I haven't run across them. I realize you can't give everything away forever, but Google's got a lock on that market and boy do they monetize it.

Wrong. The LGPL license of free Qt allows you to keep the source code to your program secret.

I think it was GPL in the long past but they changed at least 10 years ago.

And should I also put the bigger screen, full size keyboard and mouse in my bag and carry it with me every time I visit a client on-site?

Taking a portable computer with a big screen with me is better than taking a portable computer with a small screen with me, for exactly the same reasons that having a big screen (or more than one) on my desktop is better than having a small screen on my desktop. Yes, it's balanced out modestly by weight and power issues, but carrying a bag that weighs an extra pound from the train/car to the client's office/facility is hardly a burden for any reasonably fit adult.

Right - the "head of the IT department" was like, "OMG another self-righteous clueless nerd who doesn't understand risk analysis."

There is something that needs fixing here, though - the OP needs to get counselling for his control issues.

Or install consolekit2, or systemd-shim.

Why do you care? The only reason that library exists is to make sure that systemd is not a required package.

Or are you simply alergic to the d,e,m,s,t and y?

Oh, you are an insane person, so sorry, I thought for a moment it was worth talking to you.

Hahaha. I guess you've never seen a busy mailing list.

And if you don't know that systemd is optional in Jessie then you clearly haven't been paying attention.

Why?

Who the fuck knows, the whiners are unable to say exactly what they want, or why.

Rember that clown that claimed he nearly destroyed the laptop his business depended on in order to remove libsystemd, a library that largely consists of:

if (init is systemd) {
  do something;
}
else {
  noop;
}

Morons.

Seriously, does anyone make it to the top without at least some dickness?

Depends on which "top" you mean. If you mean "wealth and power", then, yeah, those are ends that dicks seek and so the successful there are almost entirely represented by that type.

But it's possible to have a huge amount of money and a stupid ugly yacht and for many sensible people to still consider you a failure, especially if you have failed family relationships and your employees fear you.

"Some people are so poor all they have is money."

Who believes in exponential growth? Singularity freaks and economists.

Idiots in other words.

Funny, you claim "but many are mandatory" then cite one component.

Cite another, please, one is not many.

P.S. So, you don't like binary logging. Why not write a version of journald that uses text logs? Should be easy, the interfaces between journald and the rest of the system are fully documented.

This is so bizzare. Slashdot is obviously broken, your post says "by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @08:00PM (#50027053)" but that can't be right.