In the UK possession of a firearm is a crime.

Lies lies and more lies. Hand guns are banned, anybody can get a shotgun if they get a licence. If being an idiot was a crime, you'd be locked up.

The whole 'giving of money' thing is the giveaway. Demonstrate our social networking skills by paying people - yeah that's really healthy.

Well I probably wouldn't have bought the damn ink from that store. I can get all 6 cartridges for my Epson R200 for less than £6. No, I don't buy genuine epson, my warrantee period ended years ago. It strikes me that in this case, an idiot just spent too much money because they're an idiot. On the other hand, somebody else's going to get a cheap half decent printer out of it.

http://www.mythdora.com/

The question replied to was a troll. You cannot sudo in most distros, definitely without knowing the root users password anyway. Most linux systems come "properly configured" out of the box. You have to work hard to make them less than secure. Whereas, windows logs you in as admin straight away, until you create another less capable user. In Linux systems, you have to create a standard user before the install is done, and that's who you log in as. Any decent distro would disable root logins anyway. Anybody who wants a root login from the machine can reboot and add "1" to the kernel arguments rather than hacking the user login. You'll need to be able to handle the shell though ...

So no engineers were involved in the design yes ? Is that what you're saying ? A 25km underground ring with some of the most advanced machines on the planet and you reckon it was all drawn up in a D&D meeting ?
Tosser !

Fair play to you sir. I bet your comment gets ignored by the latter day witch doctors.

I totally agree with your comment, but you didn't answer the question. The reason we have had to build the LHC is because we don't have control over observations. With the LHC, we can time it to the picosecond, and observe at the correct moment. With the cosmic rays, we have to watch 24/7/365 just to know it's happened at all. And then we can't reproduce it at will. This is science.

Congratulations, I had to scroll at least 30% of the page before I found an on topic comment. Shall I go on to explain how utterly minute an electron volt is ?
For example, 1.2 TeV = 1.92261175 × 10-7 joules
A typical electric fence for containing animals produces 10 joules.

Your comment was fine up until the last paragraph, then you made assumptions which you have no evidence for. Please make your assumptions fit the actual truth. Even if the truth doesn't fit, maybe it's something worth aiming for. Instead of the crap you have been used to up 'till now. This is what govt. was designed for...

<Now for a ramble> I've been drinking in a pub which has a new landlady. She's got nice tits, but this is irrelevant. One of the first things she does is put all the condiments in to buckets, for each table. I tried to point out that this meant MORE work for her staff, but she prefers to see it as "doing more for the customer". I cannot understand this. Sure we get to decide how much yellow crap we squirt on our food, but we can no longer guarantee what the yellow crap contains. Anybody can sneeze or cough on the bottles and it will never get cleaned off. At least with the individual sachets, you used it and no-one else did. But apparently, because I haven't done a 2 year management course, my opinion is worthless. Never mind that a) I'm a customer , and b) I've been drinking in pubs for the last 30 years. 2 Years management course rules the world ! Kids today !!!
We'll never get any credit when it all goes to shit and they have to come crawling for advice, will we get any notice ?

No, the world would rather die than listen to advice these days. As usual, it says more about you than it does about us. The world today is all about instant gratification and fuck the future. In case you haven't noticed, your future is our future too. Don't fuck with MY future ! [ or I'll fuck with yours ! - I mean it ]

What a fanatical viewpoint.

Yes you have. Get a fucking clue.

If it's not open source then it's another kind of software, software isn't BAD or GOOD, it's how it's used that's important. Or was that a troll ?

Twat.
Linux isn't some kind of alternative to windows where you get the same deal but with less hassle - it's a completely new environment. If you don't understand that, please cease with the FUD pretending it is a piece for piece replacement for it. It was never intended to be and it isn't , and who fucking cares anyway ? Only windows users who need to be told what is a good idea, because they have no idea for themselves. I would rather people like you stayed where you are and didn't pollute our environment with your " I can't do it, it's so hard mentality". No matter what you believe, you need to understand how a computer works to get the best out of it, and windows does its best to make that observation indistinct, or even irrelevant.

Proudly posting from a Fedora 4 computer running Firefox 2.0.0.2 with no rootkits, no viruses, no mailing capabilities, no external control. Unlike most Win 9x/XP/Vista machines

I don't give a fuck about WIndows 7, or Windows 8, no matter how "good "they are (in comparison), Oooh you've finally got composite desktops, well I guess my F9 is out of date .... finally. Is that it ? Tossers !

Is there a way of modding every fucker who has posted to this story a troll ? Because the post is a troll, and anybody who replies is a troll. If you don't get it, you're a troll. Ooops that appears to be everybody - says a lot...

And that "Sceptic" when pronounced with a soft "c" refers to sewage. But for some reason people look uncomfortable when I bring that up.

People look uncomfortable because *you're* full of shit. Sceptic means exactly the same as skeptic. Septic is the spelling that refers to a tank for holding sewage.

Fill their o[ro]ffices with water ?