/me recalls hearing about something called "single point of failure"...

What magstripe? I live in Europe, where we dropped that nonsense in favour of chip+PIN years ago.

NFC is disabled on all my devices that support it, and it'll stay that way.

Windows user? I've got openSUSE running on my old laptop from 2004--an Acer with a Celeron--and it still handles full-screen video (and mouseclicks) very nicely, thank you.

We're all fired?

I've been using SuSE/openSUSE since 2005. It's always mostly worked quite well for me, and when I have had issues, in almost every case it was a problem that originated upstream (I'm looking at you, Nouveau).

I know plenty of people who use it (including 3/4 of my team at work). Most of them are in the German-speaking countries, Benelux, or Scandinavia.

I've not had much trouble with it lagging behind, although I have had the opposite problem on a couple of occasions, like when they've moved up to a newer version of gcc than our dev/QA people were testing against at the time. I've filed several bug reports against our products that were closed as !BUG and then re-opened after Fedora/RH/Debian/whatever caught up.

Buddhism has no mythical or spiritual component.

Buddhism is about discovering and accepting what is real.

This religion started out as a joke, and remains a joke. (Thank Goddess.)

Chemtrails don't exist, period. IS does. Your point?

There is no enemy, since the US isn't in a state of war with anybody.

Get us a declaration of war as mandated by the Constitution, and then we'll start talking about an enemy.

I forget the source, but it's been said that a true patriot honours all nations.

My licence agree for Win 7 Pro OEM does not prohibit me from installing it in a VM.

It says only that if I'm installing it for my own use, I'm restricted to installing it on a single computer that has a disk or flash drive and a case, that the COA must be affixed to said case, that I'm restricted to keeping a single backup of the installed OS for recovery purposes, and that the backup may not be used to operate a different computer.

Of course, this is from 2007, and it's an OEM version. Later or non-OEM versions of the licence may say something different, I dunno.

TFTFY.

And people wonder why I buy my own hardware for work, don't use a company-supplied laptop or phone, and always connect to the corporate net using a VM and never from the host OS...

It's been done. I've a friend who got busted at age 19 for selling heroin. The judge gave him the option of enlisting and volunteering for combat duty, or doing hard time in the state pen. He chose the former--which in those days, was effectively getting a ticket to Vietnam.

There's a photo somewhere showing one of the last US helicopters to take off from Saigon in April 1975. In the photo you can a soldier dangling from one of the landing skids. That's my friend.