This is just as foolish as the P. Let's do something more thoughtful:
I don't respond to anons who have extreme and hate-based views of the world. The world is not "filled with hate" but hate does exist and you are an example of its results. Good-bye.

The next poster says the US dept of Propaganda, but they don't have a wide enough view. Here is something from the register a few months ago:

{This reminds me of the occasion when the Daily Mail's ex-production editor tried to explain to me the underlying theme behind the popular British newspaper's unrelentingly frenzied quotidian obsession with house prices, illegal immigrants and things that supposedly give you cancer. "Every story is calculated to get across the same fundamental principle," he said, "and that's 'Be afraid be very afraid'."}

what possible chance do people who watch the news have when this campaign is going on 24/7 around the world. The media has learned what works: fear and sex. So that is what they sell. I can't stand it >

I have had similar problems with OCZ drives, and no matter how fast and sexy I wouldn't touch them again.

And considering that we have a 50% approval/excitement rate of Republican voters for D. J. Trump in the primary, we are failing big time to teach thinking skills of any sort. We have to do something to get our citizens thinking clearly and critically. FAST!!!!!!!

And we are already building at least one car that uses that same idea/tech: the Chevy Volt. Someone up or down from here said that this was only for the rich (electric cars in general they meant I suppose) but I make less than most of you and have a Volt that I bought new 2 years ago. I still love it, get 65+ mpg on average and most days just run on that 40 mile battery complained about.

Part of my success is making sensible and thoughtful choices. I leave the car at home many days because it is just easier to ride the bus to work. Takes longer, but I don't pay for parking, gas, extra wear and tear from road warriors putting on makeup at 7 AM, etc. Too many people only think about the pretty surface of what they want and not the chewy meat of it. In my case, my wife and I made choices that let us live a great lifestyle on about half of what other people I work with make. We do it by making unusual but good choices, like the Volt. One of the major offsets for us was the cost of fuel. Even today with the price in the basement, we save more than $100.00 a month compared to almost everyone in my office. Take $100 off your monthly car cost and see if a better car doesn't work out? Still not there, Take most of your maintenance costs off-- we have spent a grand total of $190.00 dollars for one oil change and one new tire in 2 years.

Oh, and all this would be much less except my wife uses the car two days a week as a courier and a couple nights a week for Uber/Lyft. Nuff said?

What everyone is harping about (too much power in the hands of established editors) is the standard for academic acceptance of new information.

A story/an anecdote: My friend from Spain, Jorge, was working around US campuses as a visiting professor right after getting his newly minted PhD in Linguistics. He had discovered that he would never make it in a Spanish department where the Dean and the tenured professors were all much older than he was: they had set up their camp, only hired people they wanted who would defend the accepted ideas of the existing power structure and turn away anyone who didn't want to play the game their way. This is the reality for most departments with entrenched power structures.

Another, similar, power elite structure that occurs (and I maintain that these are all natural processes, not evil plans by greedy old men) is what goes on in my department (which is very young, very forward looking-- while the dean has a PhD, our "academic director" is still finishing theirs) and is still warped by an elite created by the simple numbers of faculty hired from the Applied Linguistics program run by our university. These kids come out of the program with a particular view of teaching that is reinforced by the fact that they all learned the same thing through the same process and expect the same results. Of course they see the world through the same filters. So someone like myself, with 15 years of experience in the field and another 4 years in this university, crashes into their established and "fully supported" approaches to the knowledge and its dissemination.

To conclude: To meet academic standards of quality for information, Wikipedia has recreated the established academic systems around areas of knowledge. This is really pretty understandable considering the reality of academic life. To rebuild, retrain, change expectations and outcomes and processes to something "better" without some kind of experimentation into results that improve the transmission of the information and the vetting process, there is no way to change it. The system does work, but very slowly and it stays at least a generation behind the times. Sometimes even more: I have been railing at the teaching of a particular piece of English pronunciation for almost twenty years, based on solid and easily reproducible and understandable research done in the 70s, and still it is taught, described and written as if the new ideas didn't exist. So, this is where human nature meets transmission of information.

The history is deeper than this. Slavery in the new world was entirely different from slavery around the Mediterraean or in Asia and the Middle East. There were slaves in England, but they were called "Indentured Servants" and signed agreements to a limited time slavery. This was fairly common around the world. If your luck turned very bad it was an option that could save your life.
But new world slavery, that was entirely different. There was no agreement between the parties. There was a racial element that did not exist in the rest of the slave trade. In fact, the word "slave comes from "Slav" in other words Slavic people! They hit on hard times during the middle ages and sold themselves as slaves all over the world, and were white. Other differences: your children were born into slavery in the new world, but not in most other versions of slavery. Your marrieage was not legal, you could not educate yourself, or be educated by your owner in the new world. All of this marked a new kind of slavery that was easy to distinguish because of race.
So, that old argument, often used by racists and repeated but others who don't have all the facts (like me when I was young and unschooled in the world) can should be put to rest by the members of slashdot.

And all of you running MA down have overseen the creation of much better, even world class, browser engines and finished browsers no doubt?

Really, whether you agree with MA or not, argue about the ideas, not the person. Didn't anybody, anywhere, anytime (mom, dad, teacher, mentor. professor?) ever teach you how to have a DISCUSSION? The focus of the discussion is on the ideas, not on the person. So let's reboot and try this again.

Shit! you just don't get it do you? Andressen, and what became of Netscape, are not the topic.

(actually, I liked Netscape more than anything else at the time. Then I liked Opera more. Then it fell behind and I went back to Netscape, except it was rebranded as Firefox, then I tried Chrome, then FF got better, then Chrome, then....

What was your problem to begin with? Oh, the way things change, ohhhh. And you are voting for Trump no doubt?

So you like T-Mobile eh?
(they own Metro PCS)

My, don't you wander a bit? First, the teachers don't get paid shit. I am a teacher, I belong to the union. They cabn't do much against the governor and the legislature who believe, as you have been told, that teachers are stupid.
But then you flipflop and talk about how wonderful the teachers are. What is going on with that? If they are so wonderful they wioll do as the last gen of teachers did and jump ship ASAP to someplace where they can get some money to feed family and self.

Or is it just that if the kids stayed home then the parent would have to stay home, and therefore do something other than chauffeur the kids around. Remember though, that the kids the P is talking about are not the poor, they are the upper middies who can afford to have one of the parents as chauffeur. So this is less important for them. I would worry more about parents who are working threee jobs, kids unsupervised after school, homework not being finished or attempted, students not meeting the standards and goals set by the teacher and belonging to a group that prides itself on being "stupid."

That is the America in a lot of schools today, for poor kids especially.

No, he is right. I belong to an NEA connected teacher's Union and we battle to get a 3% raise for faculty at a rising star university in Florida. Florida has the money, Florida needs to keep their faculty (and they are leaving now to get better pay in other universities) andwe are already in the bottom quartile for Adjuncts and instructors (instructional faculty as opposed to research faculty who are tenured or tenure track). But even the tenure track stars are still well below average here. The Unions struggle to keep @10% of the faculty as members, when we pay 1% of our income to the union for dues. So the 3% return is well worth it for our income which would be stagnant without the pressure they provide.

So, the old ideas about unions are real bullshit now, but, interestingly, I was teaching a History remedial class this past semester and in my prep I ran across anti-union speeches given by the 1%ers of the time and damned if they weren't reading from the same playbook more than 100 years ago. Join a union, get a payraise and lose your job because you are too expensive to hire any more.

Really, read some real history about working class and middle class people and forget what your buddies at Fox are telling you. They are the pawns of the system.

It's fear, fear, you have nothing to fear but fear itself. Think about the policeman, anyone with an open, not fearful heart would ask the kid to tell him what was going on and then deal with the real problem: asshat kids. But no, everyone was scared to death because a Sikh (oops, non-muslim, hindu but they dress funny so they should be feared)

Where were the real adults? The real men and women who could have/should have stepped up to solve a problem that was easy to solve without fear and over-reaction? Where were the brave Texans of the Alamo?Where were the brave Americans of WWII, Korea and Vietnam (not to mention Iraq and Afghanistan: in fact, I believe that a real service person would have had the lack of fear to solve this, but I might just be hoping)?

OK, admit it Trump and Cruz and Rubio and all the rest of the clowns on left and right: how many of you would have walked bravely into this situation and solved the problem with words instead of what happened? And, if you wouldn't, if your handlers would have kept you back out of "danger," would you be ashamed, or be busy figuring out how to justify your inaction and the suffering of a 12 year old boy over a joke that adults over-reacted to?

Until we have leaders who don't need fences, leaders who welcome the poor and indigent, the war ravaged people of the world, then we are not the America that you think you are.

Pure BS. I'm running fedora23 on a core 2 duo I built in 2007 with absolutely no problems. Even upgraded it with dnf system-upgrade without trouble.

No, not "insightful," just overblown. Use reality instead of hyperbole.
I lived for a couple of years where I could only drive once or twice a week, mostly on dirt roads with 0 traffic. The only time it was a problem was when I hit a deer, then I dragged the deer off the road and performed a hit and run. (really, that is what it was, but I knew the local constabulary would not appreciate being called out into the boonies because I hit a deer.) Even the insurance company agreed that it was the right thing to do.
And I totally agree with your conclusion, but might also add: "don't drive in a way that might cause an accident that you feel you need to run away from."