Excuse me? Do you really mean that? Seriously?!? Christianity started out with a jewish rabbi who got nailed to a cross. Are you suggesting that he started a violent movement that needed "mellowing"? That strikes me as crossing well over the line of victim blaming.

Australia doesn't have the 2nd Amendment.

The Parliament may take over from the States their public debts, or a proportion thereof according to the respective numbers of their people as shown by the latest statistics of the Commonwealth, and may convert, renew, or consolidate such debts, or any part thereof; and the States shall indemnify the Commonwealth in respect of the debts taken over, and thereafter the interest payable in respect of the debts shall be deducted and retained from the portions of the surplus revenue of the Commonwealth payable to the several States, or if such surplus is insufficient, or if there is no surplus, then the deficiency or the whole amount shall be paid by the several States.

The Parliament may take over from the States their public debts as existing at the establishment of the Commonwealth , or a proportion thereof according to the respective numbers of their people as shown by the latest statistics of the Commonwealth, and may convert, renew, or consolidate such debts, or any part thereof; and the States shall indemnify the Commonwealth in respect of the debts taken over, and thereafter the interest payable in respect of the debts shall be deducted and retained from the portions of the surplus revenue of the Commonwealth payable to the several States, or if such surplus is insufficient, or if there is no surplus, then the deficiency or the whole amount shall be paid by the several States.

Ridley Scott said so. It's his movie

Unix philosophy. Do one thing and do it right. Same reason I have an old school e-Reader instead of an Amazon Fire. I also own a stand alone calculator and digital camera. Trying to put everything into one Tricorder type device is not the future yet. Unless your future is one device that does 10 things sub-par.

They could kill IT in that 10-ppl company and might well get away with it. They probably would recreate an "online-app-maintenance" guy with much lesser influence and be done with internal IT with in-house developpers.

While marketing will put forth a hundred short-lived ideas I do strive for stability, for things to be scalable and durable.

The appearance controls in Xfce, for example, can switch to vertical subpixels

Rather than using Simpsons names, they chose a fake name "Travis Tea" that sounds like the word "travesty".

Sheesh. What kind of journal accepts a paper written by a baby?

the folks who would pay $1000 for a flashlight must not be too bright...