Don't make fun of him! It's his MEDICINE!

I smoke weed, I smoke it 'cause I like to get high. I advocated for legal weed, we have it, but I think it should be completely legal for consumption by anyone who's reached the age of majority. I'm also retired. Chucklefuck here is 31, has no job (or will lie about one) worth mentioning, and is obviously a loser. But, hey, they haven't had any credit, a new car, a house, a checking account, bills in their name, or anything like that. But oh yeah are they happy with themselves and what they've made of themselves. *sighs* The world is full of pathetic people. That's okay - and if they find the lifestyle fitting then good for them. They shouldn't lie and pretend to be something more than what they are though.

You assume they're not living in their mother's basement or some other cliche that is similar. If they're 31 and have no debt or credit rating then they're likely a failure at life by most metrics. But I'm sure they're happy and I'm completely positive that anything they type to refute the idea is 100% true. They'd probably get a stark realization if people would stop tipping the 31 year old pizza delivery man. Seriously, go pick your pizza up personally or tell them you'd rather a delivery person who's not stoned and actually needs the job - it will help him out in the long run.

What do you think you're doing when you put money in the bank? That's why they pay you interest (well, used to) on the money you put into your account. You're loaning 'em money.

If you cared you would not give that information out to people and surely wouldn't give that information out to a source that is looking to monetize it AND tells you ahead of time that giving them this information means you have no control of it. You'd look out for yourself and think about what you're doing, right?

That's a pretty strange leap in logic up there.

How about if you hang out with your drunk driving buddy, and a few others, and they keep doing it while you continue to hang out with them you *will* be judged by those who know this information. "Oh, him? He hangs out with so-and-so and his friends." Not only is it a valid metric it's a pretty good way to draw assumptions when you're looking at a group as a whole.

Are there exceptions? Of course.

Are you wanting government to step in and save you from your association's behavior and the potential judgment from it? Why yes, yes you are.

You can tell which one I think is worse...

Yay! More laws! Government will protect you!

Perhaps you should take the "brave" out of your username.

Good woman then. My ex was a bit of a fan (they said, I don't think I ever saw them use it) of FreeBSD. It's probably yet another lie from her though. Almost one year free from a relationship! Feels like quitting smoking a bit but it's so much better for my health.

I should hire you as an editor.

See? I love this site. I really, sure I was joking but still, would not have expected that. Thanks - interesting article by the way. Much appreciated.

Heh - you answered as I would have. Thanks. You did too, read that is... I do wonder if all the coffee in Turkey was that way. I obviously didn't have the chance to try all of it. That isn't really the subject though and I could probably use a search engine and find out if I were that curious I suppose. I guess a more accurate statement is that I'm a bit curious if others here have traveled to Turkey and had similar experiences.

Thank you for the information and, well, your view that his career choice means that he behaves like an immature child is a rather absurd argument really. The rest makes sense but your last statement doesn't really.

The two being similar isn't really the measuring stick you want to use, is it?

Shh! You won't get burned at the stake around here - they'll burn you at the stack in these parts.

Wait... I thought you said she was beautiful? ;)

I'm just screwing with you - she's a wonderful looking woman and has good taste in operating systems as well assuming she uses it because she likes to and not because it pleases you. Then again, doing it for the latter reason isn't horrific or anything but I'm an idealist I guess. (Which is why I no longer have a wife.)

That was a very good explanation and describes it in a manner that I've never seen before but it does describe it very well. So, in short, thank you for that. Even if I had mod points I'd rather just thank you for having taken the time to come up with that description (I spent 'em already, they'll probably give me more tomorrow) because, frankly, that's the best description I've seen of an ABI and how it probably *should* be done. It brings to mind some security questions (example: What do you do, from the kernel developer standpoint, if it turns out that the ABI has a security flaw in it - say it's an older ABI that is seldom used or the likes?) but I think those questions can wait for a better time and place.