Yeah, but if you give away more free stuff than you ever get back in revenue you will be losing money. This is what Ireland did. They got less than a thousand jobs out of it, and would lose them in an instant if they ever tried to make Apple or Google pay for what they actually use of public resources. Selling for less than cost is BAD BUSINESS.

I made no comment on social justice. I said it was bad business. A race to the bottom leaves you at the bottom, and since the rest of the EU was not racing against Ireland, they just raced themselves to the bottom. It was bad business and economically idiotic.

Yeah, all that win for Ireland was why they went near bankcrupt and had to bailed out by the rest of the EU?

Ireland sold out, but sold out so cheap they didn't even get rich from selling out. Hopefully they have learned their lesson, though it seemed some people like you haven't.

If you run unsanitized input from the web in your shell. YOU ARE ALREADY VULNERABLE, you don't need any other issues, you are screwed and the fix is to stop running untrusted unsanitized content on your machine.

What would the difference be? Unless you detach your upper body, it is still going to follow the legs and bump und down as much if not more that if you ran normally. Reading a book is not going to get any easier, the main problem is all the bouncing, so I recommend audiobooks.

Apparently they determined KDE has NO accessibility features, because KDE doesn't have full support the GNOME API for accesibility that is only used by screen-readers.

So apparently all the settings KDE has for accessibility doesn't matter. Maybe because Gnome doesn't have them?

See http://www.windpower.org/da/ak... (2013), or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (28% 2011).

Now that is renewable. Of course the rest is made of coal power to fill the energy holes both in Denmark and in Sweden that is using hydro and nuclear only, and therefore can't supply peak energy on it own.

Actually systemd might be bloated, and new and less reliable, but it was the old init system that was rube goldberg machine, it was an ancient well tested and well unstood rube goldberg machine, but it did run a many random independent tools one after the other handing one result to the next sequentially like a rube goldberg machine. Now it is all parallel and all part of the same machine.

And software development. Though it works acceptable on Macs too (compared to Windows development), though only when developing for Apple products naturally. Problem is still that productivity on Macs is lower because the OS keep getting in your way, and there is no way of making it stop, because giving power features to power users is not the Apple way.

It is Apple we talking about, specifically Mac, where everything "Just Doesn't Work(tm)".

That would be useless in an OS like Linux that is mostly used to get things done.

Yes(!?), the single most common solution with the current congress, is to "solve" the problem by cutting funding to the agencies they don't like. Which is why so many of them simply doesn't work, and gets worse and worse, as they get punished for their issues by cutting their funding even more.

Yes it is hilarious. Of course we used some kind of stupid elector system which degenerated over time to making the electors heriditary, turning them into the aristocracy.

Then your comment is simply wrong, because what you stated is an example that NOT different between the US and Europe.

Well D'uh! Ali Baba is a famous fictional leader of thieves.

At least in polls they are. Ask any question, no matter how stupid and one in four Americans will support it. I think it is safe to say: One in four Americans are either idiots or trolling. I could believe either or even both.

Too bad there is so low support for independence though. I think US politics would work better if the states could have their own two party separation and could try different legislation and FAIL instead of being bailed out. Europe has it's share of "challenged" southern states, but it is pretty obvious which nations are succesful and which are not. Also though nepotism imight behigher, monetary corruption is smaller in smaller nations.