If you claim you know the sysadmin of a system, those not believing you should not discuss what powers does a sysadmin have, because those are there by definition of sysadmin, no matter if there is one, or is dead, or the system has been installed by mistake and is not doing any work. They either believe you or not. It's that easy.

Forcing others to believe your claim is still wrong, besides I don't recall Jesus H. Christ forcing anybody to follow him, but for each religion the truth is one and universal, I don't see why this poses a problem, the universality of a truth you don't believe in is irrelevant.

It seems to me that, whatever the undiscoverable truth is, our spiritual needs have no power over it.
In other words, God is there but not because you need it, or God isn't there but not because you don't need it.

This is like saying the editor of a film can't decide the ending because he let the actors improvise. You are mistaking editor for spectator.

A hypothetical creator, creator of time itself together with all the rest, can design randomly evolving stuff that ends up exactly the way he wants, because he is not bound by time. A creator can build an end and let the beginning evolve freely from it, there is no cause/effect outside time, only correlation. More precisely there is no "beginning" nor "end", those are concepts defined from the POV of someone travelling in spacetime, they make no sense whatsoever outside of it.

If I tell you "imagine a circle" do you have to start imagining the circle at some point and doing some rotation to be drawn or are you able to simply imagine all of it in one step?

This is not religion, guys, this is logic. Please, stop being more inconsistent than whatever "god told me so" religion ever invented. Captcha: sharpest.

> There's no real way to prevent it other than subsidizing them, and then how is that really better than the government running the entire thing?

It is no better for you, ordinary citizen. It is better for the company who enjoys both aspects of independence and government work.
In a perfect world no private company would want to work with government, because the government would want to get the maximum benefit for the least price possible and take precedence over whatever issues you have with that.

Private companies lining up to get work from governments means "corruption" or "deep crisis", none of which is very good.

The obvious reason for such a beam is some alien kid playing with his xray toy pointer.
That, or possibly theoretical models that put 95% of stuff into not yet observed dark matter/dark energy are still a bit immature.

I was thinking along your lines, instead of getting rid of all the video, though, I think people would get back to the habit of downloading and sharing stuff via local networks or sneakernet, and discover ways to keep local storage in sync like with git annex. Also, online content that is DRM and stream-only would suffer.
But this would make some big interests very upset, and Hungary government is no match for them, so they will find some way to curb alternative uses of networking. This means that we won't see again the chaotic but decidedly more interesting landscape of 20 years ago (last days of BBS, usenet, internet protocols instead of web based centralized megasites).

Emacs is neatly packaged so you can install only the things you like, just as debian does for python, ruby, and lots other environments (emacs is more like them than a mere editor).

Because, I repeat, it is not cancer.

Nothing to argue about, see
item n. 7 or ask google.

If Lucchesi practice the other meaning too much is not really my business.

And for the funny part:
Being a "sega" is slang for being inept in Italy, so when the arcade machines displayed a full screen "Sega" some time after game was over, it was an insult to the guy who just lost the game, and was taunted by his fellows with that word.

Having said that, they market everything under the Sega name and people don't care much anymore.

Debian goals are incompatible with a systemd-only system, that's the reason.
Removing mandatory systemd dependencies is what debian has to do. The technical committee can choose systemd as default init system, but from there to only init system means they can all go home and install redhat.

They won't react badly unless emacs gets pulled as a dependency and renames network interfaces. Which it won't do because it is not cancer.

vi is pretty much the best example to push in the face of systemd apologists.

vi is default in every distribution, nobody bats an eye.
systemd tries to do the same and everybody lose their mind.
The reason is simple. You don't have to deal with vi at all if you don't choose so. And if you really really do not like it...

# aptitude search vi | grep ^i ...
i vim-common
i vim-tiny ...

# aptitude purge vim-tiny vim-common
The following packages will be REMOVED:
    vim-common{p} vim-tiny{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 1093 kB will be freed.

vi is not cancer.

Why should emacs depend on systemd when it can reimplement it?

I can't say it's not cool looking. As long as all you have to do is look at it, you're set.

My 2c on the topic. Apple knows what to do, the objective is not to make the best looking hi res desktop, it is to make the lower res desktop look like sh1t. Marketing 101.

I could switch to whatever typeface in macos, at my own risk of course, but it seems strange this ability went away.