Please, tell us about how the Keystone pipeline will be carrying North Dakota Sweet Crude. Tell us how that is an exact equivalent to the tar shale crude that the Keystone Pipeline.

More to the point, give us the citations on how The President personally stopped the North Dakota sweet crude by personally not allowing the Keystone pipeline to be built.

This is why no one pays attention to you asshats. Now go back to Fox News to get your daily dose of affirmation. They'll tell you what you know.

My familiy is under orders to put me on a jet to Alaska, and from there, a bush plane to as far north as possible, and deliver me to Inuits, with instructions to set me out in the weather as senilicide. For that, I'll make a sizable contribution to the village.

Only an hour or so at -20, and I'll be polar bear food.

Still pissed off about the industry moving away from CP/M, I see.

Yes, the joke is on us when "Wahhhh! My computer isn't working - fix it! FIX IT!" OMG I can't get to Facebook and Twitter"

"Sorry honey, I don't do system 8. " I relish the day when that joke is on me. "Fix your own computer smart trendy person who can adopt to change!" Looks like you're going to adapt to learning your own trendy computer".

You are quite simply wrong. Thinking that W8 hate is an inability to adapt to change is silly. It's like bringing out the Pontiac Aztek, and saying "This is the future of automobiles, and if you don't like it you're stupid. If you don't think the Aztek is the most beautiful car ever made, you must be blind". Um hum.

Politically correct Dogma? Groupthink?

All Slashdotters are the same, You and Jane Q Public are slash dotters. Therefore you as slashdotters are engaged in Groupthink and cannot abide anything that contradicts Politically correct Dogma.

Figures.

I wanna be some babe's bicycle seat.

That is a very good point. I set up a new computer for my sister with Windows 7. Even that was enough to give her some issues. W8? Truly unrecognizeable. fuggidaboutit!

But her old computer was about to crap out, and it was A Windows XP Pro system that was - beyond all belief - not one update. It used a lot of programs that aren't in existance any more, and/or not compatible with W7. No compatibility mode, nothing - they wouldn't even install.

This is an extreme example of what people are up against. But still an example.

So I just sat down with her and explained that we'd get close to what she had, but 14 years is a log time in computer terms, so she'd have to learn a little bit.

Path of least resistance type stuff. Windows 7 allowed for it. W8? Not hardly.

To the topic at hand, installing W8 is not really a good option for a lot of people, especially if they don't have a touchscreen. Yeah, we can do this and that, and do something to make it looks sorta like kinda something. But it's such a huge step, and not even a step forward. It's learning almost everything new to do the same thing you were doing before. And some things end up arbittrarily different, like on my Wife's W8 Laptop, the integral mail program won't do POPMail. or only certain programs can be turned into desktop shortcuts.

And since whenever you set up or fix a computer for a friend or relative, you own every problem that happens afterward, I simply won't install or work on a W8 computer aside from my wife's touchscreen laptop. Linux or W7 is the only thing I'll support.

And I heartily recommend Mint.

Teh Evilz that iz Apple enthusiasts are always at the ready to cruzify them.

Since it appears that the haters have forgotten to take their Ritalin, and are now in the

!!! Ponies! mode, here is the end of the article:

Since publication, Apple has acknowledged it misunderstood the request to unlock the device. The company has now restored the factory settings. It maintains a court order would be needed to access the iCloud./i>

Shame on you for 6 weeks Samzenpus. Couldn't put that the device is in use now, eh? The only argument left is whether or not she intended her family to have unfettered access to all her personal info on the computer. Perhaps the fact that she did not give them her passwords is illustrative that she might not have.

If that is true, it is the most batshit insane thing I have ever heard.

Although it would give the shills something to bray about - look at the W8 market share!

This!

I bought a Tesla, took that stupid electrical junk out nd popped in a good V8 engine. Now I have what I want.

True. But this is Windows. To bring your analogy true, we'd decide to get new silverware, then discover that our plates don't work, the pots and pans would no longer hold water, that we have to buy a new stove, and remodel the kitchen in order for the silverware to work. Then we'd discover that the silverware doesn't work at all like it used to, and all we've done is spend a lot of money to do exactly what were already doing.

No, tha's the difference between researchers and teh political types. Research only raises more questions, and politicians know all the answers before any research is done.

I gained a pound reading your 20 KiloCalorie analogy.

The issue I always had with the starchy carbs was that after a short time, I'd be hungry again. A bowl of oatmeal at 0730, and my stomach was grumbling at 1000.

Carbs like lettuce, broccoli, and proteins left me feeling full for hours. Overall though, I did eat more calories, yet lost weight.

So in the end, while on a low starchy carb diet, I tended to eat less, because I wasn't hungry soon after the last meal. My downfall was the same every time. Going home for the Holidays. My family wa like teh original foodies, and it just wasn't easy to refuse food (Eastern European family, and refusing food is a breach of etiquette) So it wa always a matter of getting back on the wagon, and controlling the appetite again.

I tried a vegan diet for a while. It was a train wreck. Messed up my metabolism, my libido, and my general mental outlook. After 6 months I moved back to meat. Then after a week, I started feeling normal again.

What it taught me was that people shouldn't tell other people what they should eat, their body should, as you noted.