True, you always have the right to move off the grid and become a hermit, well, mostly. There are few places off the grid these days.

It isn't the amount it is the local concentration. And the tendency for it to affect your neighbors. Still, I agree about ICE engines, which is why I use the one in my prius as little as possible.

Of course it doesn't- but it is the small things we can control, not the large things. Isn't that the entire selling point of the Prius? Sure, it still burns gas, but far less than most cars and with far less pollution for four times the cost.

Well, capitalists are always going to want to draw a harder line between the source code and other client code.
Mostly to support some business model, but also for performance: note that even GNU Emacs, in all of its glory, compiles a significant amount of the grungy code down to native binary, for performance reasons.

You make these assertions about "terrible language" -- what is it about the design goals of SQL you don't like?
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"just not designed for object persistence" -- do you mean all of the overhead of normalizing data and casting it to canonical data types, as opposed to just dumping it to some key/value store a-la MongoDB?
I mean, sure, there is no universal tool that scales from a boot image to a data center. Yes, fanbois are tedious. But, other than PHP, I can find a little something to love in just about anything.

Right, but the point about the Lisp interpreter is that wandering back and forth across the line between the source code and the live data (mostly impossible with other systems) is readily attainable with Lisp.

Oh yeah, the economy sucks and people are desperate for money.

Kinda makes one wonder just how accidental the current depression really is. Desperate people not only do anything for money, but historically accept and even want strong leaders with unlimited power. So, for a politician or three-letter organization, the worse it gets the better it gets.

And who created the bitcoin software? We don't know but I'm sure they are having fun selling off coins they got for free to suckers who just finished eating their tulip bulbs.

So... the inventor of Bitcoin might get rich from it, therefore it is bad?

LessTif came a lot later. Initially, it was the OpenLook vs Motif wars, and Motif won - even Sun abandoned OpenLook in Solaris. By the time LessTif arrived, Motif was available as a the basis of CDE. LessTif was used by the Linux distros, as they wanted a liberated version of Motif.

Anyway, all that became moot w/ the introduction of KDE and GNOME.

As well as QPL. Really, the only reason to support GTK+ is GIMP.

From a user standpoint, I have a different question, or a variation of this one. Why would anyone who needs a Qt based environment prefer LXDE, which is just beginning now, over Razor-qt, which has been around a bit and has a considerable headstart? Although I'd welcome these 2 merging, if that's what happens.

Open Source is the horrible business model: shared source is what's good. Open source licenses prevent an ISV from legally preempting downstream re-distribution, thereby ensuring the potential of initial customers becoming competitors. Shared source, OTOH, allows customers to reap the benefits of open source, while protecting the financial interests of the ISVs.

NT was never publicly available on the SPARC. Intergraph toyed w/ the idea some, but then dropped it, and went whole Wintel. NT debuted with the MIPS and Alpha, and added PPC later. And then dropped MIPS, PPC and Alpha, in that order.

I figured they'd call it SHAANTEA.

Can you name one? I suppose the recent bit about "enforcing my will through legislation" is about as close as you're going to come, for all one doesn't feel the need to excuse supporting "2 + 2 =4" as an expression, either.

You can't assert that without denying free will, at which point your cheep materialistic reduction eats itself: in what context can the question of morality even ARISE, if we're all merely bags o' meat?
No, I don't think my excuse-fu even holds a candle to yours, sir.