representative democracy= we make promises, you vote, we enter into office.
Immediate benefit for them, promise of later benefit for you.
Hmmm sounds like the most classical blueprint for a scam.

You should vote PROGRAMS, whose points become law overriding everything else, with the parliament devoted to harmonize it into the existing situation and the government devoted to apply.
And emergency laws should last 3 months.

Or direct democracy. Of course those in powers make sure we as people are not mature enough for direct democracy. We should adopt it as a form of punishment against our lack of spine.

You should channel not only Jobs, but also his RDF. So, the most canonical response should be:

"You're landing it wrong"

Ah, the golden days of apple...

> But at least with Corporations you know they are in it to make money.

which means that no matter what your needs are, they will be making sure you fork some $$$ at regular intervals. That means incompatibilities and retraining for the rest of your life. Compared to this, even the apparently dreadful "build your own linux from scratch" is an acceptable long term solution.

experimental has not got all debian packages, unstable does.
I suggest a backup, install debian on usb for a couple days to test it out, install on hd and restore /home from backup.

> I mean c'mon, just make it f-in work out of the box.

You are addressing the hardware manufacturers, right? because they have the power to do that, all the others have to hack support into their drivers.

Ubuntu to arch seems a drastic step (still it is possible and productive). To those who don't like it I suggest to pick among the dozen ubuntu derivatives you find at distrowatch so you can keep using your ubuntu knowledge. Mint comes to mind. Or fall back to debian.

Your idea about religion, generalized is:
"There are multiple versions of an event, therefore no version can be true".
I guess you never had to deal with witnesses, in both good or bad faith. In elementary school I had to, possibly I had a more interesting life than yours.

Atheists, all it suffices is: there cannot be a definitive proof that a hypothetical god is a god vs a faker with enough knowledge or power, therefore I choose not to believe. Y U no stop with all other flawed arguments?

> I just enjoy the simplicity of Windows.

Ok.You are fine with registrations, activation, hunt for drivers, no cross platform compatibility, no apt repositories, no way to update system and apps in one step (optionally using cached packages from another system). But I think you just need more time to evaluate your options.

The x buffer paste works also by pressing both buttons, at least in the default debian distro I use.

I think selecting and middle clicking is way faster than copypasting, I wonder if gnome devs are using any linux desktop in their everyday computing.

This seems a weak argument. Genesis IIRC is oral tradition transcribed at some point. Figures of speech symbols rhymes repetitions and others could have been employed. Some time later, a guy would teach using parables.

Besides, the bible is not a proof that needs confutation, believers themselves say that you are free to choose, if a coherent sacred text is a requirement for you to start considering a religion, there are no probs here.

Else you could try to get a parallella board if you are interested in parallel computing. You need to connect less of them together.

A jerk is statistically insignificant, but his superiors should do something. He is ticketing people for a technicality and that reflects poorly on his category.
The drunk pirate is not going to stop and wait for his turn while a cop is checking others on a red light texter, a missed by 2m/sec rolling stop, a hand not in proper position on the wheel...

except you can't use them in this thread...

> Well, I don't see many deceptive snakes in nature...

Maybe parent hinted at the fact that snake might refer to a liar instead of a reptile. But no, let's forget that referring to people as animals is commonplace in literature and common talk...

LOL it's the week of the serpent, see my comment history.