Thanks.
Sure, if usual contraception means are still available that's somewhat good enough.
Some "abortifacients" might prevent teen pregnancies still.

I mean, on this site people used to rant that in good old days every computer user was a programmer or at the very least had easy access to programming tools (by e.g. turning the computer on), such as Commodore 64 with all its PEEKs and POKEs (thick paper manual included), or how you would write an assembler from machine language when you didn't run out of bits, Hypercard on the Macintosh, the oft ridiculed Qbasic, and other examples.

Some of these were good, some of these sucked but at least noobs and unsupecting users could get some results, even if just toying around.
If we get one new "default" coding platform, isn't that a good thing? (Google developed a similar thing, too)
No, a python shell in every Ubuntu/Mint/Debian isn't the same, nor coding stdio.h applications in the console. You could as well say Windows comes with development tools because there's the Windows Scripting Host.
Coding some web stuff in notepad is doable, but do you really want to do that?
About the browser itself, it is too late. Back in the days of Firefox 3.0 and Chrome 1, the browser-as-a-platform was already there and the good old days of static HTML and .wmv or realplayer streaming were behind us. And I would hate to go back to FF 3.0 : it was slower and crashed more and leaked more, as amazing as that reads.

You gotta start from somewhere. In the 90s if you did not know bettter (and likely had no internet access) you ended up playing with QBASIC, old Visual Basic and such. And fuck, yes a "webapp" is confusing, what with needing to learn like five language to create simple crap (PHP [or other], Javascript, HTML, CSS and whatever, not to mention the kilometer long config file if you install Apache)
Add paying for a server and a domain name.. that shit costs recurrent cash to pay by debit card or paypal? Fuck it.
On the other hand a little "web" IDE that's either bundled or easily accessible from most PC I find myself on and that is just made for the purpose (rather than an Eclipse clone or than just a text editor), maybe that'll encourage some people who will be perfectly capable of writing simple and useful or funny stuff but didn't want to touch all that shit with a pole yet.

but the employee is shafted, even if he/she thinks the embryo has less value than a dog's life.
And it's hardly the employer's business anyway, since the employer (usually) is not competent in medical issues and is not a health insurer.

Rather than employers playing God with their employees over life-and-death issues, if they're not satisfied with the insurance they buy for their employees why not have them hand out $20K for the employee to buy his/her own insurance. That's fairer.
Employers shouldn't impose their immoral, decadent lifestyle choices on their employees (putting magical concepts aboce the value of an actual person's life)

I thought the problem of the 2010 ruling is that "constitutional right" give them unlimited propaganda power, i.e. there's in effect no ceiling on campaign contributions anymore and what's more the corporations are used to funnel unlimited anonymous political contributions.

So nothing stops a corporation from spending $400 million a year on nazi propaganda in order to overthrow the government, for instance (not that they'd want or need to do that, at least not in the US sigh..)

Bingo, the required account just makes me avoid it. I've never even thought of ownership issues till just now : so if you buy games on it, they'll be tied to your account and another user of the computer can't use them?, unless you share that hotmail/outlook/microsoft account which was meant for you to receive e-mail.. so you must make a sham one, but keep track of it and tell the other users to not use it in other contexts or lock it.

Even then, if this is not the computer's first boot, you have to find that tutorial. Plus in the end some computers are running 8.0, others 8.1 and others 8.11. I didn't find the tutorial, but did not actively look for it.

I guess I could like it but would prefer it gray, unanimated and with a regular old boxy scrollbar.

Oh, so if I install Vista I'll get the quick toolbar without messing around?
Taking notes..
You can even pick colors when using the Classic theme I guess.

Eh, I'd install it right now if I had an SSD or a shit ton of RAM (or both)
but I'm used to some linux niceties like not caring whether upgrades failed to download (and I have the same excuse about a needed SSD to not try KDE)

The sound volume icon is shit anyway both in 7 and 8.1. Slow to come up when you're suffering some over loud thing bursting on the crap speakers on someone else's computer, icon too small and faint and hidden in the tray, doesn't support changing the volume by simply hovering the mouse and using the scrollwheel.
When I had my own Windows I would use Autohotkey to change volume ; when I use someone's Windows 6.x (any flavor) I hit win+r and type "sndvol".

And the local plants which give high availability are coal, gas and nuclear, plus hydro.
That's the problem with simplistic and rosy renewable propaganda : all that talk about "decentralized" energy production is meaningless. Not only we have to take that word for granted and are supposed to think it's a good thing, well because, er, it must be better ; but the reality is you need to integrate production over very large regions, make numerous multi-billion investments in the grids and even "smart grids" and even then it all relies on powerful nation-states injecting billions more into subsidies or making the consumers pay even more.

So there's nothing decentralized - a nuke plant powering a whole small region is more decentralized than that - and the producer boasts about green credentials while passing on the investment and grid costs to the tax payers and consumers, which is the most "decentralization" actually taking place.

The sentence makes perfect sense either way ;)