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Comment Re:Display server (Score 1) 826

As long as xterm & the web browser are running on Wayland, nobody will complain.

And X-forwarding.

X.org has became such a mess itself (compared to the old XFree86) so anything smaller, simpler, faster and 100% compatible is welcome.

Makes you feel good that the same people who messed up X.org are building Wayland, doesn't it?

Comment Re:My opinion on the matter. (Score 1) 826

is Slackware and from what I've heard Patrick and the devs over there feel the same way I do about systemd.... Maybe its time to revisit an old friend.

You will feel at home in so many ways. You will type 'ps aux' and see the process list can be read in a single page.

The only downsides will be the lack of a solid package manager, most specifically no way to automatically upgrade all software on your system; and (possibly, depending on your hardware) driver issues not being resolved as easily.

Comment Re:Not really new. (Score 1) 216

there is analysis

There's always analysis. The problem is, who's doing the analysis, what is their agenda, and who's tasked to act on said analysis.

I don't doubt that nuclear energy could be an amazing boon and used to a much greater extent, safely and profitably. If we could trust the energy industry and government regulators to do the right thing.

My analysis shows that's not the case, however.

Comment Re:Ketosis (Score 1) 281

Yeah like that health nut Dr. Walford who claimed he was going to live to be 150 on calorie restricted diet. Well, he sure avoided any chance of cardio disease when he flopped over dead at slightly less than average lifespan for US citizen. ah well, it's the thought that counts

Comment Re:Pandora's Seed (Score 1) 281

That's complete rubbish, civilization has extended lifespan. The groups mentioned in the slashdot summary have one thing in common, average lifespan well below average of first world citizen.

Comment Re:Keyword: Believe (Score 1) 281

People are all excited about the Paleo diet because they lose weight on it.

But the fact is, if you eat a highly restricted diet of any kind, you're probably going to lose weight. People get on the Paleo diet and become zealots, making sure that nary an iota of grain goes into their mouths. If you're paying that much attention to the food you're eating, you're probably not throwing garbage down your throat like most fat people do. So yes, you'll lose weight.

You'll also lose weight if you restrict your diet to brown rice, seaweed and overcooked lentils. Of course, you'll also lose your will to live, but that's a different discussion.

I've noticed a high correlation between people on the Paleo diet and the anti-vaccination crowd. I guess crazy is a wasting disease.

Now, you'll hear people say, "Look at all the professional athletes on the Paleo diet! They must know what they're doing." But that ignores the fact that these phony "nutritionists" hang around these athletes, trying to convince them to buy into or endorse their product/book, and if you actually look at what's on a professional team's table in training camp, you'll see a well-balanced selection from all the food groups and even a few tasty things just because they're tasty. All the Paleo stuff comes from the athletes hanging around these fraudulent "health experts" in the off-season (who also tend to be the ones to get them to use performance enhancing drugs like deer antlers and human growth hormone). The guy in Florida who is facing serious federal time for running a PED-ring got started in the business with a product called (I'm not making this up) "Zap Your Zits With Zinc" where people paid outlandish sums for less than a penny's worth of zinc (which also happened to be a near-toxic dose, if I understand correctly). It didn't clear up anybody's skin, but it got the "nutritionist" started on the road to making big money giving guys in the gym stuff to make them all swole up like mesomorphic bratwursts.

Now, there are certain aspects of the Paleo diet that appeal to me, like the fact that you can eat all the spare ribs you want, the fattier the better. However, I don't see how any diet that rules out italian bread with fresh mozzarella and olive oil washed down by cold beer could possibly be good for you.

Comment Re:My opinion on the matter. (Score 1) 826

All unixes differ. Trying to claim that the way it happens to have been done in Linux for a while is the "one true unix way" is frankly bullshit.

Claiming that's what's claimed is frankly bullshit. Before systemd Linux systems used either sysvinit or BSD-style init, one of the two primary init standards.

Comment put a label on it. (Score 5, Funny) 281

I'm pretty sure our ancestors didn't evolve to eat corn that was licensed by Monsanto. Just a thought.

But I understand GMO foods are going to totally fix world hunger, which is why they're primarily sold in the US, where judging from the girth of people I see on the street, everybody's hungry as hell.

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