Huh... That's funny, cuz I was talking to my wife, who is fairly market savvy, what she thought would be a good way to try to leverage my skills into working from home... and she looked at me, smiled and said, "Besides porn?"

Truth is, it is a low overhead system, that if worked correctly can yield a high income without building your network, and doing something that comes naturally.

I wish I had modpoints... It seems that the Debian peeps think that I have infinite diskspace, so when I want to install something to test it... It MUST come with 80 bajillion other packages... and deinstalling those may traverse back up the tree and break something that I want. Hence my hate for *untu as well.

For starters? The init system.

Otherwise? The packages in general. It takes something so long to make it through the repo approval system that it's obsolete by the time it hits mainline. For some that is probably a bonus, but for me that's just a pain in the arse, cuz then I have to go and find either a repo that bolts on or a deb and the appropriate dependencies. For those that argue that AptoSid, or unstable/testing etc are the answer... well my forays into AptoSid and unstable/testing were less stable than Gentoo/Sabayon... So, I tried each of the porridges and found Arch seems to be in the sweet spot.
(Until RedHat/Fedora abandons RPM, I will not touch them... though I am forced to use RHCE at work, and yum at least seems reasonable these days even if the RHCE repo is archaic.)

Also, the .deb build process is more painful than it ought to be (unless I am missing something, which is likely as my patience is not infinite.) whereas it took me all of 10 minutes to figure out the PKGBUILD system so that I could roll my own packages for use when AUR didn't have what I needed/wanted.

One presumes that the "first" sale was allocated a specific amount of infrastructure based on estimates of performance when extrapolated out to the number of distributed copies, therefore that infrastructure is attached to the physical media. If the first owner sells the physical media then the "mineral rights" should also be transferred.

Yeah... I love Arch, and I hate it.

However, I have to say that the documentation is quite excellent (with some reservations {wireless is a bit messy}) and the forum and IRC support is very helpful. Which is inconsistent across the distros (Gentoo and Sabayon tend to either be really helpful or real hardcore jerks). The Arch guys are always cordial and helpful which encouraged me to hang out there more often...

Pacman is slick and fast. The query feature could be more robust before it reaches Debian loveliness, but that isn't always necessary. Sabayon's entropy is nice and verbose, but slow does not begin to describe it. Sulfur is even worse.

AUR is cool, but I definitely recommend a manager for it as it can be tedious fetching all of the prereqs for a much loved piece of software.

There are many Arch-based or inspired distros. I currently use ArchBang, which keeps you from having to start which the bash shell and work upward from there. I've done the build from bare metal with Gentoo and Arch enough to know that I don't always want to start there.

Anyhow... back on topic... Yay for Arch.

The Army still employs the Red Team, Blue Team model as well. There is a Warrant Officer billet for it. The few that I have met weren't terribly competent though. They were the one's who were persistent enough to hang around and get into the "cool" program. (Although my sample size is slightly more than a handful of reservists.)

I thought it was a good way to weed out the weak-willed. I had a blast in USMC boot camp. It was like Boy Scout Camp with M-16s and hilariously angry people.

AngryDeuce.

I understand what you're saying... and to some extent I can agree. I grew up dirt-floor poor in rural Oklahoma. So I've been there. However, I owned the maintenance contracts on 32 single-family properties and 2 multi-family properties that were primarily populated by Section 8 families. These families did not pay full rate for any utilities, or the home... but they did for cable. I only worked in the houses on nights and weekends as my primary job pays the bills, this was an investment in my father's line of business. Every single one of those houses had their thermostat at 75deg or below (I keep mine at 80 when I am not home), most of them had massive plumbing issues due to grease being poured directly into the garbage disposal (we called them trap candles), and often the automatic dishwasher had to be serviced or replaced once a year because the dishes weren't scraped before the dishes are washed. They did tend to have large televisions, but they were probably purchased at deep discounts at the local closed up grocery store (there are no operational groceries in the area due to crime) parking lot from questionable origins.

There were very few exceptions to the 70+ units that we maintained to the above sort of maltreatment of the property. The people that did take of their homes were elderly or veterans.

So, both sides of the aisle have some truths to their argument. As a person who has to claim over 250,000 in income due to owning a small business but has far less than that amount in actual disposable cash flow. How am I supposed to feel when someone says that I am wealthy and that I should pay more to support these programs with obviously questionable results?

Yeah, same here. I had uberfast service via Uverse at my last home. Here, I moved between to small towns (40,000 and 3,000) there is 1/4 between the city limits, and I am halfway between on the main thoroughfare. There is fiber all over both towns due to some largish companies encouraging local ISPs and the muni's to pony up. There is a fiber line that runs through my front yard. However, I cannot get cable or DSL, so I opted for 3G... I snatched up a Virgin MiFi as soon as I noticed the rates, it sure beat Cricket Wireless. Now... I can either pony up for basically the same rates as Cricket... (except Cricket does have a 7.5GB cap available) or I can ditch my investment and try to solve the problem otherwise.

Bunch of arseholes they are... I would've been happy paying another 20-30 per month... which would be exorbitant for the speeds that I was getting, but it would allow wife/son to see Kipper on NetFlix streaming without killing our limit.

Not happy.

Sure. The dozens of websites and editorials (Daily Kos) that either wished death or assassination on Republicans should be considered responsible when a R gets an owie.

The guy had an antagonistic relationship toward religion, smoked a lot of pot, and burned the American flag. What political affiliation does that sound like to you?

I give you a clue... It's the leading party in Crazytown.... He's a f-in nutball. Who cares what he attached himself to? Crazy people kill each other over crushes on actresses, alien butt-probes, and artificial flavors.

This guy just happened to be more successful than most.