Perhaps you should stop hating Indians so much that you feel the need to move away from them.

I'm going to venture a guess that when they refer to one of their business centers as a "campus", it's because it is large, possibly suburban, and landscaped.

Apparently, we don't all know how fast light travels. xD

That's always the propaganda. Sometimes it's even true. The occasional jackpot gives the politicians cover for continuing to engage in crony capitalism without outraging the public too much. I wouldn't even mind that if the payoff occurred more consistently (cf. my previous message about no longer caring if people do the right thing for the wrong reasons, as long as they do the right thing). As it stands, though, crony capitalism seems to cost more than it nets...

I've given up on hoping people will do the right thing for the right reasons. I'm now content when people do the right thing, regardless.

I used to imagine that whining so well that when we closed down the computer lab in school, I'd known when someone left a monitor on when they turned their computer off, and walk right to the monitor that was still on and turn it off, too, just by following the imagined sound. Since being able to hear 15khz is apparently an imagined ability, I was apparently using my psychic powers instead to find the monitor that was still on. Now doubt this is a much more believable explanation.

Indeed. Phosphor persistence wasn't that persistent. I could see the flicker on CRT displays. I don't notice any flicker on modern backlit displays, though...

Spoken like a true brainwashed robot, parroting your propaganda. Meanwhile, real people capable of thinking for themselves understand the concept of using different tools in different situations, and know that sometimes it's better to be centralized, and sometimes better to be decentralized. Both bits of software are made for people trying to solve similar problems, but with different nuances.

I solved this problem at my last job by setting up a testing environment that pulled changes from the repository. It helped that the system being worked on was large and complex enough that it would be a pain in the ass to try to set up a local copy on your own machine for testing, so everyone would just use the test server, which, in order to use, required a commit to the development repository so the test server could pull the commit and put it into testing (in fact, this was accomplished in the post-commit script). The SVN server would receive commits from every developer continually through the day, and even the tiny change always had at least one "backup" somewhere.

The only downside to this is commit log pollution, but it wasn't really a problem -- these tiny commits would just have an empty log comment that could be easily ignored, and when things were finally working well, the changes would then be merged into the main branch with a properly documented commit.

/eyeroll

You can do whatever you want with your own software. Only other people require a license, and are bound by the terms of it. License terms do not apply to the copyright owner -- that doesn't even make any sense.

You cannot steal what already belongs to you. Even if it was a gift.

Sure they do! A few years ago, Microsoft was found guilty of violating the laws, and received a harsh sentence. They had to give people coupons or something...

...and when there's too much noise, it drowns out the signal. Trolls allowed to run amok are an effective form of censorship, preventing anyone else from having their voice heard. The "grow a skin or log off" group think censorship is fine, as long as it's not done by moderators.

Ha, I wish... all I get to vote for is politicians. We don't actually get to vote for the people the politicians take their orders from, nor are the people who set and implement national military or economic policy in any way democratically selected or answerable to anyone but (in theory) their shareholders (and even that's not really the case).

What's that got to do with anything? We're insisting that these people are not POWs (otherwise, they'd be entitled to a bunch of protections under the Geneva convention).