Anything that happens to you during a trial gets noted as a possible side-effect.
Note that diarrhea and constipation are noted right next to each other, for instance. Ditto for hair loss and increased hairiness.

It is highly likely most of those are completely unrelated to the vaccine, and that you’ll experience no such effects, but at this point, it’s really hard to tell. It pays to be cautious, or even paranoid, when conducting trials.

This is why I love Tree Style Tabs. You get the tab bar on the left (or wherever else you like it), tabs structured hierarchically, collapsible trees and all that fancy stuff, including vertical screen estate.

We’ve already got memes.

Getting rid of memories is something that’s already being done, primarily with trauma victims, especially veterans.
It is actually really simple: since the act of recollection pulls the memory from long-term storage and then processes it back through short- and mid-term storage, patients are given drugs that inhibit passing from short-term to mid-term storage. (My mother was also given those after waking up from a coma; even though she was conscious, she remembers almost nothing. Which is good, given that just being plugged in to all those machines is very painful and causes a tormenting feeling of thirst even though you are properly hydrated. A week of those memories would leave serious consequences.)
Anyway, people come to a psychiatrist, drink a pill, and talk about their traumatic experiences, which are then slowly erased from their memories.
It is not always the preferred method; after all, we learn from bad experiences, and it wouldn’t do to erase them all. We’d only make the same mistakes again.

The place called China can indeed reproduce pretty much anything. And cheaper, too, especially when they loosen up on the good ole QC.

Then again, China struggles on the innovation plane. It is easy for them to reproduce stuff, but not at all to actually invent something new.
So yeah, I’ve heard of China. Yet people still buy Apple’s iPhones instead of much cheaper Chinese knockoffs. I do wonder why, when it’s so dire as you make it to be.

Well, it does work nicely, albeit a) more slowly than Chrome and b) it tends to crash for stupid reasons (most often while typing up a comment on Facebook; then again, maybe the universe is trying to tell me something).

I do wish Firefox would implement Chrome’s method of auto-updating in the background (thus eliminating the wait at startup) and finally stop one tab or extension from crashing the whole browser.

Actually, a beta should be feature-complete.

For some people, driving is indeed fun. However, commuting is most definitely not fun. So I expect it to take off quite well, though at first the adoption will be fairly slow. I also expect it to move cars a bit more towards public transportation and leave cab drivers out of job.

Hell, people even organize and bet on snail races.

If we didn’t use our computers as gaming machines, thin clients might have had a fighting chance.

Well, my grandfather’s machine (which runs Kubuntu, BTW) does have a DVD drive. In fact, it has a DVD/CDRW combo drive, which can therefore read a DVD, but not burn one.
Low-end machines of that age often can’t burn DVDs.

Still, if I were to put Linux on an old machine these days, I’d probably go with Bodhi Linux.

Both vim and emacs are editors for people who do a lot of editing and writing code. Lots and lots and lots of it. Metric fucktons of it, in fact.
They are sophisticated tools that require a fairly great deal of practice to use properly, but once you master them, you can do wonders with them.

Graphical environments are easier on the memory; things are shown to you so you don’t have to memorize them. If you don’t need such things often, it is more efficient to search for them when you need them; if you do need them often, it is much more efficient and convenient to have them at your fingertips.

If I were a driver, I’d give you a car analogy now.

I am (partially) colorblind. And I prefer colored output.
When you open a quote and vim colors everything after it bright pink or whatever, it is really really easy to notice you haven’t closed it.

Since many text files, not least XML ones, are pretty much toilet-worthy, I would prefer a toilet scourer than a rock star that died on a toilet.

Well, in all fairness, not even vehicle ownership guarantees that as your car can be stolen at any time.