That's really only the case if you're installing packages from the AUR that are unmaintained or have a lazy maintainer. With the recent python3 switch, everything not in AUR (since that is user maintained), was updated to point to the appropriate python executable.

OR, the issue is that you're performing selective upgrades. Which, in that case, of course you're going to run into library issues. ANY rolling release OS is meant to be fully upgraded whenever an upgrade is performed, otherwise you risk breaking everything.

With Arch, it only breaks if you break it, since you have total control over everything.

Opera hasn't had ads for nearly half a decade now. Where are you?

I'm pretty sure Opera had drop shadows far before Firefox. I don't count rounded corners since Firefox did it using -moz... CSS options. That's not really a standard, now, is it?

Hm, nope.. Not seeing why I need extensions.

You're right. Unions, when done right and behaving in the original spirit of the idea, are extremely beneficial to everyone. The employees get more money and the employers get happier employees. Happier employees perform better.

The problem is that no one ever hears about the good unions.

I wish I had mod points...

Basically your government is a tyrannical corporation. What's your reasoning for that? Just because you don't like the way things are done there?

Learn to refile your W-4 or wait until your tax refund. Either way, you're take-home pay still increased.

So if the wealthy love income tax, why are the wealthy fighting income tax?

If a CEO wants to lobby for a cause, he can do that as a citizen, since he is one, with his own resources. But he should not be able to use his company and his company's resources to lobby for that cause. He is a citizen. His company is not.

It's not the best idea, yeah, but that's not at all what he said. He said 100% above 500k, not 100%. So you're still entitled to earn five hundred thousand dollars a year. Anything ABOVE that will go to the government. So those making a million a year only see half of it, with the other half going to the government. It's not a good idea, no one will go for it, but at least learn some reading comprehension before you berate his idea.

You know, I never thought of taxes as "reinvesting in our country." I mean, I dislike them as much as the next guy, and I'll oppose obscenely high rates, but I understand what they're used for and why they should be paid. But the way you phrased that makes it sound almost patriotic, which it kind of is. Thanks for that phrasing, I think I'll use it from now on if you don't mind.

And what are you? Some sort of anarchist, "down with the man" type? You guys make me sick. Where do you propose the government gets its money if not from the people that it governs? I bet you'd love no taxes at all. That'd be great, I'd have more money. But then good bye public services: no more police, no more firefighters, no more social security, etc. But no, of course, you have no need for that since nothing bad has ever happened to you. I hope you'll still feel safe when the government runs out of money and can no longer provide for its citizens.

Isn't getting 1/10 of that demographic to vote a HUGE improvement over previous years? I mean, I realize it's still an abysmal amount, but it's growth, right?

Because they're going after the house wife, the downloader, as if she was the original distributor of the content, as if she was the one that ripped the DVD or filmed the movie screen.