That's true. On the other hand, there's nowhere that's shitty and stateless either, unless you count Antarctica. I say we let hardcore libertarians have a ten mile square stateless area and see what happens.

Did you seriously say Cantonese?

You don't have to be clinically depressed to believe that you'd be better off somewhere else than where you are now. For example, the small island nation of Dominica scored near the top of the world happiness index a few years ago, yet young people emigrate from there in droves in search of high paying jobs in wealthier countries.

Somalia doesn't have statelessness, it has an overlapping collection of theocracies and despotisms. The main exception is Somaliland in the north, where there's been a functional breakaway republic for years and there's a noteworthy level of prosperity. Somaliland has been completely unable to secure any kind of foreign recognition, largely because if it gets it, it ruins the claim that the vampires at the IMF have to shakedown the Somali people to repay the loans made to the Barre regime. The upside of this lack of recognition, however, is that the Somaliland government hasn't been able to get foreign aid, which, as it turns out, suppresses development rather than fostering it. But condemning foreign aid to governments of low income countries is about the only conclusion one can reasonably draw from the twenty-first century Somali experience, it doesn't speak to the efficacy of statelessness at all (either way).

Thanks for the corrections. I knew it was right around the corner but things have moved a little farther along than I had realized.

Don't be stupid. Everyone else is really everyone else. Mir is only usable in Unity, and only Canonical uses Unity. There's a LOT more distros out there than Red Hat. And yes, they DID needlessly create a competitor to Wayland. Are you a Canonical shill?

"Everyone else" is switching to Wayland when it's ready, and has been participating in its development for some time now. But then Canonical decided to make their own competing and incompatible display server, which only fragments the FOSS landscape unnecessarily, instead of just helping out with the piece of infrastructure everyone else has already decided on, including all the major X11 devs. So no, it's not misleading at all. Canonical deserves every bit of the criticism they've received here.

I was gifted Netflix streaming for 6 months, and while I enjoyed seeing some of the animated DC movies I had missed and re-watching "The Man from Earth" It was devoid of new releases or current season TV shows.

They have two of them now: Orange is the New Black, and House of Cards, both not only new releases but exclusive to Netflix (and on top of that, they release the whole season at once, instead of the archaic and idiotic practice of making you wait a week for each episode). Obvious, this is also monopolistic in a way, but that's the market they're in and that's what everyone else is doing, they're just doing it better.

Anyway, Netflix (other than those two) isn't really in the business of having current-season TV shows (probably largely because the networks won't allow it, not because Netflix doesn't want to). However, Hulu(/Plus) does have some of those.

Right now, no one for anything serious, because it's still in development. Unlike a lot of other shit in FOSS-land (cough Unity cough Gnome3 cough KDE4.0 cough) they made the prudent choice to keep it confined to development uses only, until it's really ready to fully replace X11 without breaking lots of stuff. Since X11 is so integral to Linux at such a low level, this isn't an easy task and is taking some time.

Thanks for getting back on this.

Generally speaking, any feedback that you can give to us on any area of PTVS is helpful. I don't just mean bugs, but generally what doesn't work well or fit right or breaks the workflow or is just generally counter-intuitive. We do prioritize user feedback when planning for next releases (e.g. for 2.0, we implemented 7 of our top 10 most voted features), so it's not just wasting your time pushing bits to /dev/null - and, of course, for every person who does report an inconvenience, there are ten who won't bother, but who will benefit once it's reported and fixed.

OTOH, if you really are just happy about everything you see, that sort of feedback helps, too - it promptly gets forwarded to higher management to help justify the existence of the project :)

Judging by the past record, it's really Ubuntu that fails to compromise with everyone else, seeing how they tend to go with the solutions that no-one else picks (like Upstart vs systemd), citing reasons that correspond to very marginal advantages.

RINO.

Tea Party members seem to be particularly fond of using that label, by the way.

The irony is that by framing this in Tea Party terms, he's actually alienating a significant proportion of dedicated followers. Like it or not, but libertarians tend to favor F/OSS, and, conversely, a lot of F/OSS developers and users are libertarians. Needless to say, their perspective on Tea Party is considerably different from what Mark seems to espouse, and they will take offense at this comparison. All in all, a very bad PR move.

First of all, Israel is conducting large scale state terrorism basically since it exists.
 
Israel was granted its existence by the UN in 1947. The problem with Middle East is that Arabs have never been able to accept that because they don't like Jews. If Israeli Jews were Muslim, the problem wouldn't exist, simple as that. The expansion of Israel's territory since then came in my view in a fair way, as they won one after another defensive war against attacks by vastly superior Arab forces.
 
  Second, some of the worst dictators in the Middle East have been explicitly supported by the US government
 
So what. It was right to support them when it suited our interest and there was a greater danger to us and to the word to worry about (USSR - the most evil empire in the 20th century). As far as I'm concerned, dictators are a fair game to support or to depose according to our interests and once we defeated the Soviet Union, we are now knocking them out one by one. Saudi royal family has a special deal with the US that temporarily keeps them in power because of oil but as soon as that reason is behind us they will be next in line.
 
  Also, it would perhaps also be a good idea to get a clue at the size the "islamic world" you're talking about, because you talk an awful lot as if it was confined to the Middle East.
 
And it would be a good idea for you to get some perspective of what a total failure Islamic civilization has been. There is no progress at all of any kind, technological, political or otherwise that happened in any Muslim country in hundreds of years. 2 Nobel Prizes in science by Muslims compared to over 100 by Jews! The best university in any Islamic country (in Turkey, among the least Islamic of the Muslim countries) is not even in the top 200 in the world. Democracy has either failed or been under attack by Islamists in just about every Muslim country. Every border where Islamic civilization meets a non-Islamic one there is trouble, just look at the world map. Israel has shown how to turn a backward desert wasteland into an advanced 1st world country in less than 50 years. Why can't any Muslim country do the same? I think it is obvious to anyone but Western cultural relativists that the reason is Islam.

Maybe West should be alienated from the Islamic world. The status quo seemed to be that as the rest of the world was progressing towards democratic governments, the Middle East (apart from Israel) would be the sole remaining black hole for democracy and human rights, run by a bunch of dictators like Saddam, Assad, Gaddafi, Mubarak etc, not to mention Taliban. Islamic world sucks in every department and maybe it's in our interest not to let it go on like that for the sake of few more years of peace.