If you want fast computer, get at least 16GB RAM. Turn OFF swap. Enjoy.

Until you run out of RAM and start losing data. :-)

You made a stupid choice

Not necessarily. They may have violated a stupid law.

A drug offense 5 yrs ago, with proof of a completed drug treatment program for instance isn't going to stop me from hiring a good IT worker.

What if it was marijuana and the guy wasn't actually, you know, harming society? You shouldn't even require a drug "treatment" program for that kind of "offence".

I don't know why you hold up the BBC as a shining example. They put out the line of the current government which, as it's conservative, involves regular scare stories and bullshit regarding euthanasia and cannabis.

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I think you forgot:
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Debian will probably continue on its way of becoming a desktop user distro.

I know I'll get crucified on Slashdot for saying this, but in my experience, Windows works OK at being both a desktop and a server distro. You have people using Windows 8 (yeah, it needs Classic Sell or something but that's a UI issue, not a fundamental OS problem) for desktops and Windows Server 2012 for servers, at an enterprise level. This doesn't seem to cause problems, and those 2 OSes I just mentioned are basically the same OS with different features turned on. One time a place I worked gave my Windows Server 2012 on a laptop I was to use for development (don't ask me why). The funny thing is, after I disabled some features and enabled some others, as well as installing some libraries, I basically had a Windows 8 desktop machine.

Is there really a need to have "server-oriented" and "desktop-oriented" OSes in this day and age when we have plenty of storage space, or can we have one OS that can just be configured to behave the way we want it to?

"Uan" is the Italian pronunciation of "One", as the website says.

Erm, but it's not actually the Italian for "one" (which is "uno"). So they're spelling it based on the Italian mispronunciation of an English word. Ugh.

Microsoft Surface?

Why don't they build a few more nuclear plants? A higher baseload means you have a higher peakload, and since nuclear is emission-free, it doesn't matter if you're not always using all of its output.

I'm really jealous of you guys in they US. ALl we have in the UK are fucktard politicians obsessed with being "tough on drugs" and throwing as many people behind bars as possible.

Tell you what, as soon as your federal govt. is forced to legalize it, can you invade us and force our govt. too?

DID YOU KNOW THE AIR ABOVE A NUCLEAR POWERPLANT IS 10,000,000,000,000,00000000 TIMES MORE RADIOACTIVE THEN NORMAL?!?!?! YOU ARE BREATHING THIS IN!!!!!!!!!

Except that they'd be wrong if they said that. They should try flying over a coal power plant.

If fukushima taught us anything, it's that you need to cut the power coming in (the plants require mains power from the grid to operate), and disable the generator. Those two things, and nearly all designs of plants will melt down.

Except for ones with passive cooling. Guess which ones we should be building.

No it must be the other way around, otherwise FPS computer games couldn't give you motion sickness. You're not moving but your eyes tell you you are.

The government's just hungary for money.

What are you talking about?

You can easily have a centralized git repo that does regular backups. That's what Bitbucket, Github, etc. do.