I think the difference is "gave" vs "loaned." Gifts do not get repaid. Nor loans, if you are Greece, but that is a different topic altogether. In other words a gift, like you are pointing out, has no bearing on this conversation whatsoever. Not even a tiny bit. It is an interesting subject but it has nothing to do with this subject unless you are saying the loans to Greece were gifts. If that is what you are saying then why are you worried about them paying it back?

I am Amerindian, Micmac from Northern Maine, and I believe you are on my lawn.

And you are only downloading music that you have permission to use... Uh huh... Nope, do not believe you. I have absolutely no reason to believe you. You might as just fess up and be honest at this point. I pirate music all the time. I do not take it and then make money from it. There is the difference and we all know that you are pirating your music and there is not one damned thing you can say to change that.

That was a long read but interesting. It gives a nice, and different, view. That is, frankly, a dilemma that I am not sure how to solve. The people that live there should have the right to determine the growth and if that means a poor business growth climate then that is their choice. That is all I can come up with. I suppose you could say that people have a right to live and do business where they want but I do not feel that they should do those at the expense of those who already live there.

No no... A couple of them whined and cried. It is obviously effective just by your emotional response. Knee-jerking silly responses about me, the person who did not do it, shows how emotional it makes you. It is funny, really. Do go on about idiocy...

Fitness requirements stop at age 42.

You sir, won the internet yesterday. I am behind the times. However, it took me a minute and then I finally read your name. Too funny.

I don't recall those as being radiation hardened. There is the idea of using multiple COTS chips with the extras being for fail-over but then you have the added weight which really does matter.

The whole Intersteller thing with love being the 5th dimension? Yeah... About that? I think we can stop calling it science fiction and just call it fiction. Additionally? It seemed like they used a hat to pull out a standard plot line, three standard tropes/plot twists, and five real bits of science that they did not actually understand. Then they wrote a horrific story to combine them and, of course, had to throw in an entirely absurd premise (love beats physics) because, otherwise, everybody is dead. Then they dragged the movie out with mindless inanities and special effects that pale in comparison to the average effects being rendered today. It is not even bad in a good way, it is just bad. It sucked.

In fact, anyone who does not call Pluto a planet is a pedophile.

I could eat the hell out of a couple of fluffernutters right about now. I do not believe I have any fluff. Yes, this is entirely off-topic but it is the first time I have noticed your name, I think. I probably would remember it if I saw it before because I friggen' love fluffernutters. My ex had never heard of such a thing, she was a granola eating Californian, and was a bit taken aback by the prospect initially. (I can take an 'off topic' karma hit even if I did care about such things.)

What happened to, "Think Different?"

If I write a piece of music and you produce it then you are the original artist and I am the composer. If someone takes your work and reproduces it then they are the artist, you are the original artist, and I am still the composer.

The "OCD" bit implies a disorder. You do not have a disorder that is compulsive/obsessive. You are just retarded. There is a difference.

Seriously - I say this for your own good. Let it go. It is retarded and you are not "winning" anything. Just think of the valuable things you could be getting done, like reviewing the source code for your browser and then compiling it yourself!

Yes, the above is sarcasm and not really directed at you. It is just the gist of much of the posting on this thread. I had to release it somewhere and you, for better or worse, were chosen.

Try Linux Mint. It is like Linux for Retards which means I am growing to like it. It truly holds your pecker while you pee, really - it does! It is not good at shaking it off afterwards. But, seriously, it really is a very simple OS with everything right there in front of you. It is intuitive and easy enough to manage with a bit of searching until you adjust to the Mint Way® of doing things. It has a real taskbar instead of that stupid crap sidebar Ubuntu has. It replaces Mandriva nicely.