I've bought two System76 laptops, both Serval Professionals (models serp3 and serp6). I've been fairly pleased with both and I've also been very happy with the company's support the few times I needed it. I plan on ordering two more laptops from them in the coming months.

Director M. Night Shyamalan stopped by a McDonalds and offered 30 patrons an advance screening of his next film but the popular response seemed to be "Just tell me what happens."

The Social Network 2: Zuckerberg Silences the Lambs

I believe he's a sociopath. He's killing under the guise of it being some kind of humanitarian act because it's socially acceptable for CEOs to spend their free time killing, like the Go Daddy CEO who announced that hunting elephants is the most rewarding thing he's ever done. It's rewarding to them because murder is the only thing that gets their dopamine production going.

These people just have an irresistible urge to snuff out life. Zuckerberg tried to screw people in business when he thought nobody could prove anything. He called people dumb fucks for trusting him with their personal information. The only time he's sorry about anything is when he gets caught. And now he's slitting animal throats, [sarcasm]what an awesome guy.[/sarcasm]

I wouldn't be surprised if there are prostitutes in the woods somewhere with his fingerprints on them; having to revert back to things that can't beg isn't going to satisfy him for long.

To all the CEOs who think that killing things is your best possible contribution to society, do us all a huge fucking favor and don't bother getting out of bed in the morning.

I've fished, crabbed, and slaughtered chickens on my grandmother's farm. In the end it's just nourishment to me, I don't derive any sense of fulfillment from being personally involved in the killing.

People have the same philosophy about every aspect of life. Stitch your own clothes, make your own soap, build your own house, grow your own weed, program your own operating system... of course there's value in experiencing everything in life, but I don't find it to be more true of one thing than another.

I think the philosophy of kill it yourself comes from the passive guilt associated with meat consumption without the emotional baggage imparted by the physical act of slaughter. I don't have any problem at all letting other people kill and prepare my food for me. Most of my life is designed to take advantage of the distribution of labor in society.

I really prefer the Industrialist approach; more money means more automation, to the end of eventually never needing to think about tasks related to basic biological maintenance.

I am 100% opposed to it, because it's not practical to build an a la carte menu of faults. If we're going to put a price tag on being fat or being a smoker then we need to put a price tag on a thousand other things. Even talking about this kind of thing marginalizes the involved groups. It's fucking pathetic that humans are so petty. Everyone is deathly afraid that they might arrive at the pearly gates and find out they split the bill and paid $0.01 more than their fair share.

It's a fucked up world. People will pay hundreds of dollars for tickets to a sporting event, but won't pay $10 to save someone's life because they made bad choices. There's nothing humans hate more than other humans.

It's a low hanging fruit. Many states burned through their tobacco winnings extremely fast by re-purposing the money (and never actually creating the resources and support programs to help people quit like they claimed they needed the money for).

In all fairness, the people who are now upset weren't even in office when the state got the settlements. It's not fair that they should have to deal with barren coffers when the smoking problem affects them too. Should they lose out just because their predecessors spent it all? And what about the next governor? Is he supposed to make do with no money?

Well, until the states get a second bite at the tobacco apple, bullying smokers and fat people who are obviously too weak-willed to defend themselves anyway, is probably the most lucrative option. If they were smart they'd go after Linux users next. Those assholes don't even pay sales tax when they get their operating system, it's time to wake them up from their "everything is free" fairy tale.

I know the FSF's mission is an ideal or a puritanical vision, but there are real important and pragmatic issues they address. I really have to agree with this idea of a "Javascript Trap". We've gotten very comfortable with free and open web services that it's easy to forget, the code that handles your sensitive data isn't open to review.

It's simple really, in the spirit of free and open software, code hiding in any form should ALWAYS be a red flag. There just shouldn't be a point where people say "...and, for the rest of the application, trust us, it just works somehow."

'We're seeing the scientific method playing out in real time.'

What the hell is that supposed to mean? In what other time frame does the scientific method normally play out? Dealing with computers, we watch the scientific method play out in real time right before our eyes every day. We can watch the scientific method play out every time someone buys a remote control and goes through the process of setting it up. Hypothesis of which brand/model and entry code match up, test the hypothesis, record the results and form a new hypothesis based on the conclusion.

I dunno why, that sentence just bugged me. it makes it seem like discovering an error while presenting the results is somehow a rare event.

I think of our supercomputing systems as primitive in an analogous way as cavemen wouldn't end up with a rocket thruster if they just throw enough logs on a fire.

Without more advanced software designs and some type of revolutionary system architecture, more cores ends up only being slightly better than linear progression. They're primitive in that our supercomputers are seldom more than the sum of their parts.