Sorry, I looked for a non-paywalled copy but couldn't find one. I thought the story would be a good opportunity to mean about stuff we like that was cancelled/discontinued, and how if online advertisers could identify these people they could spam them with adverts for competitor's products.

I'm trying to keep Slashdot alive here with a light story and a chance for some good old geek nostalgia/venting.

My expectation is that it will be quickly overrun by trolls. Some of them non-Christians, but many of them Christian trolls pushing an extreme view and harassing others with it. The Bible is so contradictory that you can find a way to interpret some bit of it to support pretty much any point of view, and then batter your opponent over the head with it and scream about them burning forever in the fires of hell etc. The best part is that your opponent is full of self doubt and loathing so won't just dismiss you as a troll in most cases.

For evidence, see current Christian groups on Facebook.

You're equivocating about the term "racism", using the term on the one hand to refer to the existence of small extremist groups

When you say, "small extremist groups" are you referring to the police, state governments and the Republican party?

Making decisions like that on a case-by-case basis is impractical. More over, even if it is only a minor issue for the person buying the cake at that particular moment, it becomes a bigger issue if they find that they can't have their wedding in their home town because no-one will rent them a suit/dress, the local hotels won't rent twin beds to same sex couples, the local caterers won't cater their reception party etc.

That's why anti-discrimination laws are universal. Individual incidents might not be so bad for those affected, but they add up.

but you can certainly have pro music & audio sw on linux.

You can have music and audio, but not professional. The quality of the programs is just not there yet, sorry.

I thought that the meme was that Hipsters buy Apple products. Yet they are usually outstanding successes.

If you're looking for harbingers of failure in the tech world, I imagine it's probably neckbeards who call you people "hipsters" and keep on believing that this will be the year of Linux on the desktop.

No. Because the "good reason" usually is "most people aren't doing that anymore." The article is about things that *never* become cool, not things that were cool in grandpa's day.

The real problem with being a hipster is that the ideal of non-conformity is inconsistent with the idea of fashion.

Slovenia was not the center of a province called "Rome" for hundreds of years. Northern Mexico was not part of a province called "America" for hundreds of years. The appropriate analogy would be if the US later collapsed, and the southewestern border states were overrun by Mexicans (and then later other peoples), and then much later said people insisted on being called Americans, even though they had interbred with their conquerors.

Note that the people in Greek Macedonia are no more "direct descendants" of the ancient Macedonians than the people of modern Macedonia. Probably less, due to the huge refugee influx that was settled there.

As described here:

Due to the fragmentary attestation of this language or dialect, various interpretations are possible.[8] Suggested phylogenetic classifications of Macedonian include:[9]

An Indo-European language that is a close cousin to Greek and also related to Thracian and Phrygian languages, suggested by A. Meillet (1913) and I. I. Russu (1938),[10] or part of a Sprachbund encompassing Thracian, Illyrian and Greek (Kretschmer 1896, E. Schwyzer 1959).
An Illyrian dialect mixed with Greek, suggested by K. O. Müller (1825) and by G. Bonfante (1987).
A Greek dialect, part of the North-Western (Locrian, Aetolian, Phocidian, Epirote) variants of Doric Greek, suggested amongst others by N.G.L. Hammond (1989) Olivier Masson (1996), Michael Meier-Brügger (2003) and Johannes Engels (2010).[11][12][13][14]
A northern Greek dialect, related to Aeolic Greek and Thessalian, suggested among others by A.Fick (1874) and O.Hoffmann (1906).[11][15]
A Greek dialect with a non-Indo-European substratal influence, suggested by M. Sakellariou (1983).
A sibling language of Greek within Indo-European, Macedonian and Greek forming two subbranches of a Greco-Macedonian subgroup within Indo-European (sometimes called "Hellenic"),[8] suggested by Joseph (2001), Georgiev (1966),[16] Hamp & Adams (2013),[17]

There's no question that ancient Macedonian was related to Greek (most likely to a northern dialect such as Aetolian) - the question is how and to what degree vs. that of the Illyrians and Thracians. As mentioned, by the 3rd century BC it had become nearly fully absorbed, but not without first contributing words and grammar of its own. An example of the Greek view toward the Macedonians was that Macedonians were initially banned from competing in the Olympic Games (which was only for Greek Men); the first Macedonian to be allowed to compete was Alexander 1, who was made to first prove that he was of sufficient Greek ancestry (note: if that incident ever even happened - there's some suggestion that Alexander's competition in the Olympics may have been a later addition to try to prove their Greek credentials). But even if we take the story at face value, the fact that they demanded proof that he was sufficiently Greek (something not asked of any other competitors) should be a more than sufficient indicator of their views of Macedonians at the time.

There's a difference, and an important one, between 'fault' in the moral, blame-attached-for-wrongdoing sense and 'fault' in the 'error, mistake, deviation from correct operation' sense.

You know the saying "If I owe you $1000, I have a problem. If I owe you $1,000,000, you have a problem."? It's not that Greece's government is somehow the morally blameless party; but it's the eurozone who is revealed, by Greece's failure, as having been...'optimistic'...about its due diligence in the past; and apparently without a coherent plan for what to do if that comes back to bite them.

It's not entirely unlike the US mortgage fuckup: sure, you can scold the irresponsible borrowers, taking out those loans they can't afford; but it's the lenders who have a giant pile of bad loans on their books, a strong suspicion of insufficient scrutiny in their past dealings; and no terribly coherent plan to do anything about it. Greece is unlikely to enjoy the experience; but countries defaulting is a thing that happens from time to time. For the euro, though, this is new territory; and potentially not the last country they'll have to do some variant of this to. So far, they aren't showing all that much promise.

The problem when you separate these people they will only be more extream, as well your side would get more extreme.
Taking out the invisible men, and magic trick religions are still based on philosophies thousands of years in the making, where there are people who job is to study these philosophies. Vs the non religious folk unless they are a full time philosopher (and we don't have many of those on payroll) most of us have a system of belief based on short term ideas and can change when a political party gets a new funding source.
I am not saying that religions can't get corrupted as I think many of these evangelical religions are. But by isolating a group of people we will in generally miss out overall.

I had to snicker when I saw the domain. I am surprised it isn't used for a Gay porn site.

I extends to much more trivial products than submarines. Greece was lent money so it could continue to purchase german products so that employment would remain high in Germany. Germany was essentially giving Greece money to buy german products. In reality, it's a very expensive form of welfare.

It's interesting that they claim it will be free from sin, and yet also homophobic. Can't be both, either it treats everyone like a human being or it discriminates and the users are going to hell.

Must be kinda funny when they get up to the pearly gates and St. Peter's all like "you know God's son was gay, right? Where the heck did you get 'we should hate gays' from?"