I don't know any evolutionists that think "every living thing made itself out of nothing". Could you cite a reputable scientific source for your assertion?

Some scientists and I believe amino acids were created by atmospheric energy and basic chemical reactions. Once you have amino acids, all it takes is some of them to bond into proteins. It goes on from there and I don't have the space here to explain it all, but basically your assertion is bull crap.

And the second law only applies to closed systems. Earth is not a closed system.

You will feel better if you read up on microphages. These are proteins that can harm viruses and bacteria.

See "reductio ad absurdum".

You are totally missing the fact that MS manipulated the PC market all during the 90's. I worked for a major computer manufacturer. Every cpu that went out had to have a Windows license, even if the user was purchasing it to run SCO or Netware. If we didn't agree to that, they would not license Windows to us, which at the time, would have been death for a PC manufacturer. Total abuse of the monopoly on desktop OS market to control the whole x86 market.

I think you are confusing automatic with semi-automatic. An automatic rifle is a machine gun. A semi-automatic is not.

This only applies to NFA firearms, which are machine guns or short barreled shotguns.

an additional brain. Bwahahahahahahahaha...

Flywheels are very efficient and require no maintenance. They operate much as a battery does.

That means your computer is running more efficiently. Just because the drive can transfer 10x more data doesn't mean that more data will be required. You will do the same work with the SSD as the platter drive, just in 1/10th the time. The exact same CPU cycles will be required, but the CPU won't be idle as often waiting for the drive to return a request. It will still be idle. Probably the same amount with either drive. But with the SSD it will have completed it's tasks before going idle.

HAHAHA.. You think the average Slashdotter has shame? That's so cute. HAHA.. no really, what did you mean?

In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, they are not.

You are parroting the Republican idea that there is this huge population of lazy people that don't want to work and want handouts. Could you post a link to some research that supports this conclusion? I hear the claim all of the time, but I just don't believe that the hardworking Americans turned lazy in January of 2008.

Maybe you just need a more Linux friendly sound card? Lot's of noobs complain about Linux when they are actually trying to run on hardware that is not fully supported. Did you pick your hardware from the HCL? No. You probably had an old Windoze machine and decided to run Linux on it. Those types of problems were more common 7 years ago. Try a modern distro on equipment that is compatible and you won't have any of this.

'I've had more kernel panics, lock ups, *nix FAIL in the past 10 years than BSODs.' - Then you're doing it wrong.

I am with you on that. And it could be especially meaningful as we come to understand the influence of broken telomeres. I think they would be more likely to change over time.