I can do anything I need to do on a Linux desktop and the only place I find the need to use another OS is in video editing.

Nearly identical experience except for me it's video editing and Lightroom 4. I use AfterShot Pro on Ubuntu but like the color tools better in Lightroom. That and Netflix, but that's available on Android now.

It's not going to be Linux that kills Windows, Android is the real killer. And as soon as video and photo editing are available, there won't be anyone using Windows at home and Excel is not going to change that.

Bring on the Microsoft astroturfers. That's the surest sign ever of dead company walking.

Oh, wait that was the last administration.

Companies need to get slapped across the face when they pull this crud

Who's going to do it? When people like Rand Paul step up to apologize to big companies on the rare times the senate even tries to get after some of the more flagrant abuses, what do you think is really going to change?

Who's in charge of the new consumer bureau? Oh, right, nobody! Because the GOP blocks every candidate the president tries to nominate unless Democrats agree to gut the agency.

So is it any big surprise AT&T thinks they can treat you like a bitch and get away with it?

If what they did is legal, so what?

Some of those companies haven't paid taxes anywhere for five years. Big companies will adopt the attitude that we're so big we can tie up litigation in the courts for decades. So screw you. The deductions probably aren't legal, but if they're too big to prosecute then what do they care?

And that's pretty much how they get away with it. What amazes me are the numbers of corporate apologists who stick up for behavior like that. If you did that you'd go to jail for five years. If Apple does it you come on here and post in their defense.

But doesn't address how we could reshape our educational system to fit that new model. Perhaps make high school six years, with the last two intensive training in trade specialties, for those going that route, and college core courses for those going on.

That would change college from 4 years to 2 and let them focus on specialties, almost like a finishing school.

Everyone goes to school until they're 20, with an option to learn a trade, then you're on your own.

Of course, it's just a coincidence that the lines that carry the most politicians are actually funded and effective,

If memory serves the Obama administration tried to put more money into high speed rail and Republicans in Florida made a big show about turning the money down.

In an efficient transportation system planes would carry passengers between major airports and trains would fill in for commuter airlines. We subsidize every form of transportation in one way or the other, I don't see why passenger trains get singled out for ridicule.

>privately owned-and-managed system

I despise Pearson Vue and their heavy-handed tactics. There has to be a more practical way to determine certification than those hacks.

As for their outage, I feel sorry for anyone who has to reschedule but the company can suck shit and die.

Where does that leave my patent of exchanging oxygen and carbon dioxide across a thin, moist barrier in a rhythmic process?

In late March, Fisker put its entire U.S. workforce on furlough...Fisker asked 53 senior managers and executives to stay on board,

Layoff all the workers, keep the execs. That's what happens when the problem is dictating the solution.

You know you're seriously off the rails when you start provoking the planet's grand champions at killing people and breaking things and Russia and China are telling you to calm down.

Finally something progressives and conservatives can team up to fight.

The last briefing I heard there were something like 200 Chinese front companies operating in the U.S. gathering data on Americans, particularly those with security clearances.

Maybe we stop the obvious stuff and the cloud databases being stored all over the world before we go all 1984 on our own citizens.

In the same briefing I found out the French are also spying on our defense related industries. And the Israelis. Some allies we have. The ones not spying on us think we're idiots.

The notion of funding alternative energy research with fossil fuel revenues has been endorsed in different forms by Republican politicians

Until the president proposes it, then it automatically becomes "socialism" and they'll oppose it.

I've used a Ubuntu desktop for years and make my living working online. I use it because it just works. Once I get my desktop setup right it stays that way.

Maybe someone could explain what's not working so I know what I'm missing.

You can make a suppressor with a few hand tools and a clean oil filter, but you'll still get hard time getting caught with it.

If assault-style weapons are banned and someone prints one, it will be just as illegal.

Why isn't Google sticking up for Android?