Feeling anti-joke, are we?

Surveillance and regulations are innefective, education is the way to go. It fails with drugs, it fails with guns, and of course, it will fail to do anything to increase attendance in a middle school.

Because this is, erm, /. Muh guns and muh freedon yeehaw motherfucker.

And a major threat to anybody when used by a criminal, a loony, a mentally unstable person, a redneck "yeehaw muh guns and muh freedom", a teen/child finding it accidentally, etc. That argument is so feeble it hurts.

I'll have to [citation needed] on that.

Guns are, however, what makes belligerent people dangerous. Hence the focus on extensive background checks.

In my experience I had very few bugs, none critical, even in Alpha versions of CM. Installing was a matter of flashing the custom recovery firmware, wiping system/cache in that firmware interface, and choosing the zip/tar to install on that same interface. Simple, hassle free, with a much faster, clean and even stable OS.

You don't need the exiting social and lifestyle integration. I loath it as well. Just install a clean CM and install what you need. If you're that hardcore, you don't even have to install Google Play or Google Calendar or Gmail. No "pervasive "am I happy with Google slurping this?" feeling". I have a 100£ 1.4GHz single core phone and it suits me perfectly. I have access to the latest version of Android, I have total control of my phone and apps and I can do anything except maybe heavy gaming. I feel no need for yet another solution to an unexisting problem.

I'll be damned if we aren't arguing that old music and literature is inferior to today's.

The majority of people in the world oppose gay marriage. Does that mean gay marriage is wrong? The vast majority of people dislike classical music, and think it's just a posh, unintelligible thing. Does that mean classical music is bad? Heck no! And as this is slashdot: the vast majority of people use Windows. Linux is not for the "Average Joe". Does that mean Linux is valueless? Your view is unacceptable if you are above the age of 18 or have completed secondary education. Otherwise, it's okay, teenager ravings. You'll wise up in a few years.

I mean the Bach which everybody knows you're talking about if you say Bach. The Bach to whose page Wikipedia redirects when you type Bach. The others just piggybacked onto J.S.'s reputation (including his father). Nevertheless I can't fathom the relevance of those to my argument.

I'm serious. I am really not understanding your argument? Dozens of Bach's mostly forgotten? Of course, for every genius known worldwide there are a million forgotten tryhards. Your point is?

As for the literature, I'm not saying there aren't good books being written today. But I quoted relevant examples: some of the highest selling books of the last decade: Fifty Shades of Gray and the most sold books in the world: Harry Potter. What is the connection between quoting examples of high selling contemporary literature, and being stagnated. I'm befuddled both by your incomprehensible argument and by the people modding your posts up. I just don't understand how anyone can defend the ridiculous thesis that old literature and music are inferior to today's literature and music.

Yet he has been modded up to 5:Insightful. What's with /. today?

What?? No, not at all! Are you for real? I love classical music. I don't listen to Bach because I've stagnated in the 17th century. I just think that it is far superior than any commercial crap that is produced today. Rock, with its "I'm so cool rocking the guitar", Pop, with its "chorus verse chorus bridge chorus", Rap with its glorification of shitty lifestyles, none of that interests me. The unfathomable intellectual depth of Bach's works is objectively superior. Even 20th century stuff like Pink Floyd or the Beatles is far more acceptable than this commercial made-for-teens stuff. Same thing goes for literature. If you ask a teenager if he prefers reading Heart of Darkness or Harry Potter, he'll pick Harry Potter of course. I know what I prefer, though. And it has nothing to do with stagnation or whatever. For heaven's sake, shitty erotic fanfic like 50 shades of gray topped bestselling lists. I don't know what you make of that...

What on earth? Unless you are a teenager, I think most people appreciate classic books rather than the "bestsellers" of today. I also think that, bar teens, nobody really gives a shit about the boring dopamine-inducing mainstream music of today, but would rather listen to music older than 20 years. Your post makes no sense at all. If you think literature older than 100 years is boring you are clearly an angsty teenager who hasn't got it. Same thing if you think classical music is boring.

I dunno. The knee jerk reaction to optional, but enabled by default Kinect seems to be a little over the top, even for /. MS hate standards.