Hundreds of thousands of dead people per year are a small price to pay for your freedom to consume liquor and smoke cigarettes.

Oh, shhhh.... liberals like doing that.

Tens of thousands of convicted criminals sitting in prison away from their families is a small price to pay for keeping us from the non-life-threatening drug marijuana.

There are plenty more lives to be saved from the ban of consumption of recreational drugs that are NOT Constitutionally-protected than can be saved from the ban of useful and prevalent firearms.

Well, I disagree that it's fine, as I would prefer to keep English alive and well. At worst, we'll be a bilingual country in half a century. It seems you truly have no problem with it, as you use the derogatory "whine" to describe the apparent issue parent has with the notion.

Just in case you're implying as much, Anarchy isn't very popular in America. Libertarianism, as usually defined, wouldn't allow any of the actions you describe.

(Just in case you were taking a shot at those of us who would see the U.S. become a free country again).

...left disappointed.

Where are the discussions about OpenStack, MAAS, AWSOME, KVM 1.0 support, the Juju Charm store, etc.?

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrecisePangolin/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuServer

Thanks, for telling me exactly how Cisco and Juniper aren't scaling to meet the needs of Google. By "scaling", and without further details, I assume they mean "selling cheaply enough".

....if Aspirin becomes useful as a recreational drug.

The Economist had a great read on California's democracy. It's not direct democracy in itself that's the issue... it's UNCHECKED direct democracy.

The voice of the people needs to be tempered by representatives. At least, in a world where Congressmen aren't bought and paid for, that's the idea.

This is Slashdot. What internet are you referring to?

Trolls replying to trolls. My first /. article to view in months, and I see nothing has changed.

Sometimes, I like not to finish a book or story, because it lets the story live in my mind longer. Once it's done, it's like it's dead, and I only have fond memories.

As one other poster mentioned, I call BS on this. Just another reason to make shorter games.

This is a bogus law. College profs often go out with students for drinks to talk about many things, academics included. Facebook is an extracurricular activity that is just the same as email or message board.

What a joke, and another piece of evidence about why government is bad.

You, parent poster, are evidence of why true freedom via small government will never be achieved in this country.

"Good, that's an improper social behavior by my standard, so let's legislate a solution!"

Man-made global warming is a false theory.

If I want to get a file off a computer with Internet access, it WILL happen.

It took me three websites to get to the guy's twitter, which is the focus of the story.

You're so full of shit. Libre is a superset of gratis when using those terms as FSF/OSI do to describe 'free' software. I'm a real Linux/Unix user, and I use Ubuntu for most of my needs. It's a good OS.

Canonical has every right to do what they're doing. If you don't like it, then go to another OS, fine. But don't compare them to Novell and CERTAINLY not Oracle! The OS is still libre-gratis-free, if it's in their main/universe repos. Don't FUD.