I'm doing the same thing, but the search on Amazon is atrocious.

"Look into the origin of the refuge camps, these people weren't fleeing from violence inflicted onto them, but from violence they hoped would be inflicted onto others." -- wow, doesn't your brain hurt from such rationalizations?

Wow, this is amazing, confusing an ad fortiori argument with a slippery slope and my pointing out your lack of understanding with an ad hominem attack (for what is worth an ad hominem attack has this form: "you are an idiot, therefore you can't understand the fallacies you listed" I merely said that you don't understand them, that's at most a unsubstantiated claim, but not an ad hominem attack)

I tend not to enter into debates with people who list more than one fallacy in their posts (even if they understand what they mean), I tried to show you the logic of his explanation since I observed you didn't get it in the first place, but I don't suffer of "there's somebody wrong on the Internet, I need to disprove/correct him" syndrome, so, I guess you'll have to find for yourself where your errors are, so sadly I let my claims unproven and you can continue to feel smug and right.

Ah, quoting "fallacies" without really understanding what they mean.

No, begging the question is something else, this is a simple argument that goes like this: you trust us with something more, therefore trusting us with something less shouldn't be a issue. There's nothing begging here, no logical flaw in it.

it's a figure of speech, if they compile your kernel and everything else it means that you trust them, it doesn't mean that they can log in remotely to your machine using root access.

The point was that if you don't trust them you should not use Ubuntu because they make it and thus have root access. I think that's a legitimate point to make.

Relevant http://xkcd.com/927/

I don't use it but I see a potential use, for example if you have a laptop that you use at work and at home you can have a work activity with all the documents and shortcuts to programs that you use at work on desktop and then have another home activity with games, photos and other crap on the desktop. Or you could have a boss activity where you switch when your boss is around and a slashdot activity with live feeds from slashdot on desktop and other such productive things :)

It's obviously because of the name, I think it would have been better for the name to remain "Goddamned particle"... also prepare for similar reaction if they call a particle "the Devil's particle".

If you want to hide something you encrypt, otherwise is madness anyway.

I can't say I know the cause, it might be social encouragement (or lack of) and/or natural tendencies, as a guy I was building radios and other electronic devices with my friend and then went out and pranking people who were playing radio too loud, somehow I couldn't see my sister interested in that kind of pranks. Girls mature faster, that's I think at least one non-controversial statement. Building and playing with devices and programs might require a non-mature type of mind that boys have for a longer period, girls might not be so interested in this kind of stuff once they pass a certain age, I wonder if more girls would stay in the field if they are involved at a younger age into these kind of things. I can tell you that when I was 12-14 or so I was fascinated by pong and was interested to write a pong program, again, when my sister was 12-14 she was probably bored to tears by pong and she wouldn't even dream of wasting time to write a pong program.

I thought publishers use copyright not patents to protect their content.

Why do you care about the feelings of the "community"?

A thing is good or bad in itself (make your own opinion), it doesn't matter what is the opinion of some vocal people, especially that they don't get to contribute code to the client, it would be more relevant if the client were open source but is not.

That's a good point, and actually the clothes are probably more important than the color of the skin, just think about meeting a black guy dressed with a Hugo Boss suit somewhere in downtown and meeting in a bad part of town a white dude with tattoos and pants that hangs down... yes, don't deny it, you are probably going to pre-judge them, but which one are you going to be afraid of?

Not worse, but different, racism and anti-Semitism are different things (they might manifest in the same micro-brain, but they are different).