Our cars come with all these different paint jobs:

• Pink with orange dots
• Pink with orange rainbows (warning: rainbow contains only one color, but still recognized as "probably gay" by 52% of people polled)
• Pink with orange Jesus fishes
• Pink with orange swastikas
• Orange with pink swastikas (warning: car does not actually start)
• Pink with reddish-orange swastikas
• Pink with yellow swastikas
• Pink with orange Coca Cola ad

How many more paint schemes do car manufacturers need to offer? Your complaints about our cars' appearances ring hollow. Quit your bitching!

(And why do people keep bringing up the fact that in 1997 we purchased a radical new law that no person is allowed to repaint their car, and that no person is allowed to manufacture or sell paint? WTF does that have to do with anything?)

I don't use SuSE, either. I wasn't happy with the way that Novell bought DR-DOS and basically laid there like a dead fish.

I've been planning to avoid MS Win8 from the beginning. If I wanted a tablet, i'd have one by now. If I have new hardware, I'll put the OS I want on it, and if I can't then I won't buy it. It's that simple.

This whole thing makes me pissed at RH/Fedora because they're effectively letting MS think they can turn this into a "win/win" situation: MS either makes money selling half-assed operating systems that hardware is locked into using or MS makes money by licensing access to that hardware.

Screw them, screw the hardware.

I think it sets a really bad precedence, to be perfectly honest, and I don't like it a bit.

As for the beer, don't lose sleep over it: I don't drink.

If she wants out of the education field, and has no interest in learning how to code, her best bet is the business world. Not a guarantee by any means, but she has a better chance than your art history or women's studies major. She'll probably start as an administrative assistant of some kind, for management that would like some number crunchers on their team, and she can make her way from there. It's not quite the mail room, but it won't be a "ready made" position like accounting or HR either. She just has to get her foot in the door somewhere. It'll be for low pay at the start, but that wont last long. I'd try putting in at banks, finance companies, and manufacturers. She'll have less luck at service industries where they either want sales types or admin types with a particular skillset ready to go. Banking is big, profitable, and it's not going away. That's the first place I'd start.Once she has her foot in the door somewhere, the education background might come in handy if an opportunity to be a trainer in the corporation comes up.

BTW, has she checked into being a math instructor at a community college? They'll often take BA's in Math with a Masters in Ed to teach introductory algebra classes, "business math" classes, etc. It's pretty easy for community colleges to find English, History, and Sociology majors. It's a little harder finding Math majors, and they'll pay a little better.

With a PhD. Ranked in the top of his field. Specializing in cryptography applications.

Some teacher with a BS in Math? No.

Seriously, some people should be banned for life from writing tech stories. That's somewhat akin to saying the Queen of England is tied to a kidnapping because the ransom note was written in English.

As an American, I prefer to ignore your statistic for so many of us being creationists, and I am not interested in your so-called evidence that the figure is correct. The number just feels wrong, therefore it must be a lie. My gut tells me there aren't nearly that many creationists around here, because neither I nor the people I know, are anything like that!

Furthermore, I don't understand how many people could be creationists, so that's another argument that not nearly many of them could be.

Finally, your poll is biased and invalid, because .. because .. I want it to be.

Ask my family on how that one worked out.

I tried but they wouldn't answer the phone.

retailers such as PC World and Comet will be expected to say things like "this computer is better than that one because it is Windows 8 certified".

The heart of the issue is: "expected by who?" Evidence (it was lame but at least I cited something; what have you got?) suggests it's not the people who buy the computers.