Informative, where are the mods? Thank you for the info.

Windows 7 and 8 are less bloated and easier to use than Ubuntu and Mint.

Then tell me why my ten year old kubuntu tower has half the memory and half the processor speed as my Windows 7 notebook yet runs rings around it?

As to "easier to use", are you on crack? Windows is decidedly user-hostile and takes fifteen clicks to do anything that takes three in KDE.

Windows 7 isn't that bad an OS or I would have installed Linux, but KDE runs circles around it in every way.

I especially hate Windows on patch Tuesday, it's completely unusable for fifteen to twenty minutes. With Linux it's one click and you go on working.

The fact that you don't know this is because rather than actually ever using Linux, you listen to the bullshit from the shills. Please educate yourself.

Plate is registered to an owner. Owner has driver's license. Driver's license has expiration date. License is expired? Pull the vehicle over. You'll either catch the owner driving with an expired license, another driver driving with an expired license, or a "Routine check, thank you for your time". What part aren't you getting?

"A pile of sweaty clothes goes into the dryer in order to spin out the water. This is then exposed to UV light before it passes through the high-tech filter to remove salt and bacteria. And lastly, the water is funneled through a coffee filter to remove clothing fibers." ... and lastly, the water is funneled through a coffee filter to remove clothing fibres??!?

Something tells me that the machine works as well as all those free energy machines and magnetic gasoline enhancers that you read about.

Yes, but the suit can be nice and toasty on the outside, and remain comfortable to the occupant. Phase change salts, peltier/seebeck devices; there's plenty of ways of sinking the heat somewhere.

linux has security benefits in filesystem permissions that are actually used, but its sometimes at the expense of ease of use that windows has

LOL, +1 funny. Nice shill there, crutchy, to bad it's just not true. I have a W7 notebook and a kubuntu tower; the tower is less than half as powerful as the notebook but is a lot faster. Windows useable? That's a joke! What takes one or two clicks in kubuntu takes a dozen in W7. Lets see, where do I shut off the annoying "tap to click" feature in Windows? Nope, not under "mouse" in "control panel", it's buried fifteen clicks down in a hidden icon on the toolbar. That's useable? Kubuntu's control is in its "control panel" right where you would expect it, three clicks and done. But Windows is more useable?

You complain that Linux doesn't have text config files, where are Windows config file? Yep, it has that user-hostile registry. MS got rid of text config files over a decade ago, your registry gets corrupted you reinstall the OS. That's useable?

Yes, I've used regedit. I see little to nothing readable in it.

I got a USB bluetooth dongle, and thought it woudn't work in the tower, since there was no installation software like for Windows. But guess what? No software installation needed in Linux, just plug it in and it works. Yet you think Windows is more useable?

Or lets talk about patches. In Linux, the notification comes in, one click and it's done, finishing in the background, no stupid popups telling you that it's downloading, no stupid popups telling you it's installing, then no popups nagging you to reboot, no five minute shutdow with "do not turn off your computer" followed by five more minutes of the same warning when it restarts, no several more popups after it gets back to the desktop. That's useable? WTF, dude?

I never shut the laptop off and only boot it for patch Tuesday. OTOH I shut the tower down when I don't think I'll be using it for a day or two, because when I restart it I just press the button and get a cup of coffee, when I get back from the kitchen it's as if I'd never shut it down, it having entered the password for me and reopened what was open when I shut it down. Windows lacks these useability features, yet you think Windows is more useable?

When I upgrade Windows (since XP that means a new computer for me) I wind up with a completely different interface to waste time learning. Always prettier but seldom with more features. With the exception of KDE4, a Linux upgrade has no learning curve, it's just more responsive and has added features. But a steep learning curve is more useable???

Please tell me what about Windows is more useable than Linux? Windows is a pain in the ass. And I say this as someone who's been using Linux for ten years and Windows for twenty.

A stillsuit in the middle of the ocean would be idiotic. Why capture a thimbleful of salty, oily sweat when there is an unlimited supply of seawater around you? Even if it is more saline, there's actually enough of it to be of use. Aside from hand cranked purifiers, there are solar powered, and gravity powered units. There are probably even wind and wave powered. I saw a unit on a science show back in the 1970s that looked like an inner tube with a clear plastic cone attached to it. You inflated it, set it afloat, and the sun did all the work. Heck, a properly designed life raft can be its own desalinator.

Because Tesla is supposedly becoming successful.

If the iPhone is like Tesla, then the new Windows smartphones would be like a Yugo.

OK, this is a different tech (I should submit this) but U of I is working on biodegradable cell phones that dissolve in water.

Not Terminator; the "liquid" refers to its manufacturing. This is more like Star Trek IV's transparent aluminum.

One of the jurors said yesterday that SYG was the reason for the verdict and said she'd like to see SYG repealed.

Cables are nautical units. You go 600 nautical miles out in a horseless carriage, you're likely to be going several cables down as well. Hogsheads of what, by the way? Different liquids have different hogsheads. This is why the rest of us switched. A length is a length, a volume is a volume, and a mass is a mass. It shouldn't matter what you're measuring.