If you a have a fetish for self-service rent of electric cars you've better of visit Paris. Its autolib service provides ~2000 cars to ~50k customers; it also exists since December 2011.

If you want to know what you're installing you cannot know how long it ill take.

More accurately: The uncertainty of installation time multiplied by the uncertain of package content is greater than or equal to the reduced Plank constant.

I found it on altavista, while looking for something else

Wikipedia was different in 2006, he could have been right at the time and still be right now.

It is quite obvious that your story is made up. What you describe is not what you did, but what you think others should do. And your unironical failure to see the baroque absurdity of the procedure proves point of TFA. Wikipedia: the encyclopaedia anybody can edit as long as they dedicate their life to it.

I've been using adblock since ever, but it is not always available everywhere. I.e. on mobile devices it takes a minimum of technical expertise to set up ad blocking, either by rooting+app or changing browser. Furthermore, and even if I have not seen an ad in years, I've still checked the do not track box wherever I can; if it goes go up in the statistics maybe someone will get the message.

That's only true if the course is too easy or too hard to you. Or if you are too shy to ever ask a question.

the right for the USA to have a consulate in Berlin comes fro ma bi-later agreement that can be retracted at any time. It is not a God-given right.

I know a few people who use non-pirate copies of microsoft office, but nobody who actually pays for it with money out of his own wallet. This does not exclude that you do of course, but will you keep paying now that they want you to subscribe for it?

Fixed that for you

And a google cache copy which is not currently slashdotted/script-kiddied or whatever.

They are hype, but I'm not sure the sale volume is important

You know, there are linux distributions that do not install functionality-breaking spyware.E.g. (but not limited to) opensuse and fedora. Incidentally both are older that Ubunt and Mint, and my bet is they will last longer too.

using Zotero in the USE is probably a federal crime, bearing a liability up to several decades in prison: as they say "Zotero [allows] you to add [content] to your personal library with a single click. [...] a journal article from JSTOR, a news story from the New York Times [...]"

Are we sure that semi-automatically adding an article from JSTOR or NYT to my library is not a violation of their terms of service?

porbably the "patch" was just the entire binary code