The grandparent post ("And people still assert this...") cites actual data. The parent post cites a movie and a demotivational poster. Which is the better argument?

I've had mine 15 years. I had to buy a PS/2 to USB adapter and occasionally clean out built-up dust. Once in a great while I miss not having a mouse wheel. Otherwise it's given me no issues. Added bonus, it's saved me from carpal tunnel.

If true, this is great for Detroit. That said, what the heck is the "natural average" of job growth?

90% of your changes won't have any effect on production systems. Just lump those together under "Routine changes to UNIX/Linux production environments" and explain that you've tested those on your sandbox network.

10% of your changes will impact your production systems, even if it's just because it's upgrading Apache or some Perl module that your systems use. This can be as trivial as "updated Perl module; ran complete unit, load and regression tests, everything works fine." to "This is a kernel patch that requires us to power cycle each box. Here is our plan to do this in a way that generates no application downtime." Those are the changes CAB is meant to catch. Document each one in a different request. Document them clearly and thoroughly. Run them by people whom you trust to write good English. Make sure that your deployment, testing, and rollback plans are solid, and document them thoroughly in each request.

After a while, you'll get really good at this, and people will trust your requests.

In my experience it's much easier to get Linux in the workplace as a server, and here there's lots of areas where it's as good as or better than Windows. Start with a LAMP server for internal web; use it to host a Wiki for documentation.

Master Mark will have a field day!

Belle later confirmed the existence of the Z(4430) with a significance of 5.2 sigma on the scale that particle physicists use to describe the certainty of a result.

I believe that "scale" is called the normal distribution; that is to say, the odds of getting that result as a fluke are the same as finding a point 5.2 standard deviations away from the mean of the normal curve. If so, everything in that sentence after "5.2 sigma" can be left out.

With all due respect, "looks and feels like XP" only gets you so far. If you're a home user, that's fine as long as you don't want to play PC games, or use most Windows software like Quickbooks. If you're an office user, that's fine as long as you don't need to continue to run Visual Basic 6 (yes, really) for critical business applications.

Where I work, we need to run legacy apps for the foreseeable future. So we're migrating, somewhat painfully, to Windows 7. Sure, there's plenty of Linux that can do 90% of what we need to do. That last 10% is a bitch.

I actually agree with the parent. Every single jar of peanut butter is a lawsuit waiting to happen, even if they give it away. Even if it's tested safe, Costco still assumes partial liability by handing that peanut butter over to the public. You could repurpose the lot into fertilizer or compost, but it's cheaper to bury the lot.

According to the New Jersey MVC (PDF), if you purchased a vehicle in another state and paid sales tax on the vehicle, you provide MVC with the receipt. If you paid 7% or more sales tax in the other state, you pay no sales tax to New Jersey. If you paid less than 7%, you pay the difference to New Jersey. In practical terms, if the purchaser buys in the states neighboring New Jersey, there is no additional cost — New York State sales tax is 4%, Pennsylvania sales tax is 6%.

For example: Alice, who lives in Atlantic City, buys a Tesla in middle-of-nowhere Pennsylvania (6% rate) for $60,000. Alice pays Pennsylvania sales tax on that vehicle in the amount of $3600. If she had purchased the vehicle in New Jersey, she would have to pay $4200 in sales tax. So when registers her vehicle with the MVC, she'll owe the difference ($600), plus title fee ($60) and registration fee ($59 assuming it weighs under 3,500 pounds, see here), and possibly, if Christie is really an a-hole, a 0.4% Luxury Surcharge ($240). Keep in mind, if she purchased the vehicle in New Jersey, she'd pay the same sales tax, but all of it would go to New Jersey. If she purchased the vehicle in New York (4% sales tax), she would pay $2400 in tax to New York and $1800 in tax to New Jersey.

But, I could be missing something. If so, please let me know.

Not all AR-15s are in 5.56 or .223, you know.

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I use this notebook for everything from typical web browsing through kernel builds on Parallels-hosted Ubuntu. The only thing that makes it annoyingly noisy is running two or more EVE Online clients at once.

Theo et. al. might turn up their noses at the idea, but a $40,000 kickstarter to keep OpenBSD going might not be a bad idea.

Rewards might include: kudos for contributions, limited edition (kickstarter only) t-shirts/posters/soundtracks, CD sets (duh), and for big contributors ($2500-$5000) a customized VDD set up for whatever purposes you want, yours to keep or share as you like.