Because $16K over 12 years is chump change for most of the companies filing patents. Also they seem to have this paranoid notion that it is much better to keep around something that they might need than not have it and want it later.

Turns out some of the songs on that playlist were not from the '...And Justice For Jason' album, so here is a link to the whole thing (couldn't preview last night from bed without incurring deadly female wrath).

Finding the mp3s is left as an exercise to the reader. ;)

Have a listen to '...And Justice For Jason'. Some fine gentleman did a masterful job of recording bass tracks over the original songs. I can't listen to the vanilla album anymore. http://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-6D3uVSacJhI2swNvFYPQOTRmaerYVGz&desktop_uri=%2Fplaylist%3Flist%3DPL-6D3uVSacJhI2swNvFYPQOTRmaerYVGz

Iron Maiden has by far the most elaborate live shows of any genuine metal band. Do not allow this to fool you into thinking it has anything to do with commercialization. You may think their music is decent but its sweeping influence is felt throughout every subgenre in the metal world and acknowledged by fans of those subgenres who may not even care for Iron Maiden's brand of heavy metal in the first place.

Of course it's not a fucking "beautiful and unique snowflake". It's HEAVY. FUCKING. METAL.

+1 Funny.

Medicine is way more complex than coding

It is? Most people in the modern world have some idea of what makes them sick and what to do to get better. Most people in the modern world don't have the first clue about software or what makes their computer crash. Attitudes like yours do nothing to demystify medical doctors' "illusion of omniscience".

FYI, it is very easy to add a users group on Debian/Ubuntu. Having used both systems, I like to have a users group and a group per user. It gives much more fine grained control over things.

I'm curious to know in what ways Suse is more like Unix? Once upon a time my company had a bunch of SLES installs, then we moved to Debian, and now we have a couple of RH machines. Maybe it's my perspective but I've found SLES and RHEL to be basically identical apart from all the GUI garbage that gets layered on top.

Google has given much valuable information away in the form of useful source code and a push for Internet standards rather than lock in, but I guess that was all part of their "evil plan" too, eh?

Keep your sediment out of this discussion, please.

Yes, please.

From what I can tell, the 43 year old FSTC-CW-07-03-70 or something similar is no longer part of Army doctrine. However, you are welcome to look for yourself. Whether the term "assault rifle" was part of common military parlance in the Vietnam era, I don't know, but it certainly is not now.

The definitive source for Army terms is FM 1-02 Operational Terms and Graphics (where you can find the definition of "assault", for example). It does not contain "assault rifle", however its scope is operational rather than tactical, so largely does not deal with weapon nomenclature.

Hi, I'm in the military, specifically the Army and began my career as an Infantryman. 1. We have no "definition" of an "assault rifle". A rifle is just a rifle, whether belonging to friendly forces or a threat weapon. 2. A 7.62 mm machine IS a crew served weapon, i.e.: the M240B or the M60 that preceded it. In a dismounted mode there will be a gunner and an assistant gunner who carries a tripod and extra ammunition. A very fortunate gun team (or Squad, since extra ammo will be cross loaded) has an ammo bearer also. I cannot speak to the accuracy of the rest of your post as the subject matter does not fall within my expertise but I can only hope that it is not equally as poorly researched as your military knowledge.

I am a member of the Army Reserve. Since the shutdown we are not conducting our usual once a month drill. While this does not personally cause me financial distress, many of the Soldiers in my unit are like your average American living pay check to pay check. It definitely hurts them and their families when a (normally) reliable part of their income is suddenly taken away. Some of those same Soldiers have outstanding pay owed to them that they currently cannot get resolved because civilian workers who handle pay issues are furloughed. The Reserve Components (including the National Guard) make up 2/3 of the nation's military manpower. So while Congress pats itself on the back for managing to fund active duty service members' salaries and continue to play their political game, the rest of us suffer. We have been asked to fight and bleed just as much as our Active Component counterparts, yet like so many other Americans feeling the ripple effects of this pointless shutdown, we have been forgotten.