So presumambly all your houses are built for it.

Sorry to bust your bubble, but TFA mentions that The Netherlands escaped the trend and I can tell you that Air Conditioning is rare in The Netherlands. Our houses are built to keep warmth in as much as possible, as winters are pretty cold here.

If a heat wave in 2003 caused the decline in health afterwards, The Netherlands would have been affected pretty badly.

By then, that will be the weirdos and the old farts...

*** What is a decent alternative that would remove the "I disagree" button mentality and promote good well-thought-out content? ***

Well, it's so obvious that it is staring us right in the face. To get rid of the abuse of moderation options to serve as a "I disagree" button, just add that ff-ing "I disagree" button and make this a second counter next to the standard moderation. It would instantly point out the (interesting?) comments that are counter to the group-think.

Samsung's and Intel's Tizen IVI? Jolla Sailfish? Raspberry Pi's Raspbian? Still not convinced about the feasibility of mobile use?

Buy better hardware...

Cold Fjord, you are a master in reducing everything into its constituent parts and from there "failing" to take the overarching relations between these constituent parts into account. No, Snowden and Manning have nothing to do directly with politics in Australia. They both are indicative though of the rot that pervades politics in so called civilised societies. On the surface, the citizens in a civilised society are in power, but in practise it is the largely autocratic, political caste that determines the fate of the non-political castes. To become an aacepted part of the political caste, you need to accept their "etiquette". Maybe that is the way primate societies are supposed to work, but humanity can't let go of sugar coating their machinations under the pretense of having higher principles and ideals.

Don't talk authoritatively about sex if your being is completely lacking the "firmware" for performing this function. This is not to dismiss you, belittle you or label you as a freak. You are not any of those things. You are you. You don't do sex, which is ok, but you have absolutely no insight into what the "need" for sex is, because you are in a minority with a differing psychological make-up that doesn't need it.

I don't know what life without sex is, because my firmware compels me to seek it out. Sexual beings get pretty unhappy and frustrated if their want for (non-solitary) sex is not met. For sexual beings, the togetherness, the physical act and the release it gives, is something we simply don't want to do without. We sexual beings might not die if we don't get sex, but our quality of life greatly diminishes.

To give you something workable, imagine it like this: Denying sexual beings their access to sex (probably) makes us just as unhappy as you'd be if someone were to constantly badger you with proposals for physical sex.

Egh, a skinny bitch....

*** Why would you not be allowed to use it? ***

Because to make effective use of the code on github, you have to make a copy of it. You duplicate what is on github and store it on a different medium. This, for the purpose of copyright, constitutes a copy and that is strictly forbidden without permission.

So no license, no duplication, as you don't have the permission to make the duplicate. That is copyright in most countries and under the Berne Convention. So we all live in a draconian regime when it comes to sharing intellectual works.

Perhaps the author could have chosen e-Coin instead.

** ducks **

People in general are in each others way and we all are equally worthless. It's fun to wallow in delusions of superiority every once in a while, but it doesn't take away the fact that we are all bald monkeys with a fear of the dark and a dread for loneliness.

I can only imagine what hell it will create if such flawed beings as humans gain the ability to prolong their inferiority indefinitely.

Only if you don't know about the default in copyright and that it doesn't have implicits. It's quite simple. No additional permissions? No one can do jack shit with it except the author.

*** Yes, and by god, future historians will care about YOUR spreadsheets and YOUR websites! ***

Actually they do. Historians are still trying to (painstakingly) find out how people in the Neolithic lived. So yes, having access to YOUR spreadsheets and YOUR websites will be very valuable for historians in say 3000 years.

*** Egotistical jackass. No one gives a shit about 99.999999% of humanity after they're gone. ***

Projection? That YOU don't give a shit about humanity, doesn't mean nobody else does.

How many digitally illiterate users? None. But how is that different from Windows, OS X, *DOS, *BSD, Haiku, etc?

For these people, there is only the option of paying someone else a nice sum of money and get a freshly installed machine back.

It doesn't matter what "borks" the machine, be it a technical problem or general user confusion over a slightly changed icon or location. These people are already up the creek when they turn the machine on.

It's not gonna work. No matter how much resources you pour into ReactOS, it's always going to be a copy of Windows and chasing taillights. Why go for the clone if you can get the original? It didn't work for OS2, Wine and Mono.

What would be the benefit of the customer to run a clone? Would you lower the cost of your machines in line with the cost for the installed ReactOS or would you use the bulk of the savings to up your margin?