I like it, it adds to my right-click menu (so I don't need to make it the default), and plays everything without hassle.

It's easy enough (much easier than you describe) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNjyLRQutXs

The problem with traps such as this (ones that use a scent) is that often they attract more to the area than they catch (this is true of the beetle trap bags anyway).

They train people to responsibly own and use guns

A lot of schools used to do that here in the US. However, after much pearl clutching by gunphobic parents and political opportunists, these places where children could learn gun safety in controlled environments were systematically dismantled.

A safe is a hell of a lot less complicated than 'smart gun' technology. Safes don't require batteries to work.

No, but if you said to a third coworker behind the deserving one's back, "bob over there is so stupid, somebody should beat him until he isn't" you'd laugh together and do more to damage the work environment (this is a third person impersonal you, not a you directly, I wish we had a proper pronoun for that in English).

Some CEOs and PHBs might ;).

I actually tried to get a TLD reserved for "RFC1918" style use about 12+ years ago: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-yeoh-tldhere-01

I also tried the ICANN but they weren't interested either. And when they approved stuff like .biz, .info. I got the impression they weren't really interested in improving the Internet from a technical aspect but more interested in $$$$. Did the creation of .biz etc really help the Internet that much?

Maybe others may have more success trying it now?

No. .local is for different usage:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6762
Sure took them a long while to reserve that too.

I proposed reserving a "RFC1918" like TLD about 12+ years ago, but there was not enough interest: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-yeoh-tldhere-01

I did try via the ICANN (emailed them to ask them to reserve it). But the ICANN were more interested in "yet another dotcom tld" like .biz .info.
And I didn't have a spare USD100k lying around to apply for the TLD through ICANN, and give it to the world if I even succeeded in getting it.

I don't think profanity and abuse is necessary. The Postgresql team has produced decent software without much profanity or abuse (see their mailing lists archives: http://www.postgresql.org/search/?m=1&q=fuck&l=1&d=-1&s=r ).

Once a project has a culture of abuse it's hard to change it esp in an OSS project. There aren't that many people with the knowledge, desire, skills and reputation to lead the project - you get the knowledge by being part of it, and then you might get the culture too ;). Add in a nonabusive temperament and the ability to convince others to be nonabusive and it's just easier to stick with Linus than to find an alternative ;).

But yes this may reduce the number of contributors. Not many people _need_ to work on the Linux kernel and put up with abuse.

I'm glad there's no talking behind each others back at your office.

I didn't mean people talk to each others face that way, and I meant that as a benefit to it being open. In a typical office it's all talking behind backs.

People talk that way at the office, it's just not openly aired. The LKML is like an office for the developers, but it's kept around for all to see, it's not shocking to me that it crosses the lines of what one would see in corporate email, when people are much more in contact with those they work with. I also like that actual offensive behavior can be seen by all, and tracked.

Because thinking this is juvenile makes you an "MS apologist".

I like having access to the GNU utils, and to Bash. they work pretty well for my needs. None of it appears noticeably slower than downloading the native tools (though perhaps because they are just compiled against cygwin often, and it's easier to deal with paths doing it all from cygwin).

I'm open to suggestions for a native toolkit, any significant scripting I use Python for, but find iPython a nuisance to use as an interactive shell.

should be out in 2096

As a regular user of Cygwin, I can honestly say GNU/windows is pretty awesome.