Somewhere cheap, I presume. I mean, come on, I could make as good-looking as any flat icons. I could never make even passable skeuomorphic icons. This has to be a scheme to not have to hire actual artists to make your UI.

I particularly love how the proponents often say "discoverability" in one senctence and "just search!" in the next.

But maybe he really needs all those things?

So gender is not important to you? Tsk, tsk, tsk...

One place for everyone and everyone in their place. Now, if we only could make tenure inheritable also...

You laugh, but if Obama bin Laden had gone to this school, you can be sure that he would not have been flying that plane into that building ten years ago. This is how it starts.

Using alien technology. To film it in a Hollywood basement.

If they are on the list for a good reason, why are they not in jail, or dropped from the list, by now? It's been ten years, and the government has watched their every step. Surely they would have done something illegal by now.

(The government has watched their every step, right? I mean, these people are so dangerous that we can't let them fly. Surely, they can't be just let loose unsupervised in 2D-society.)

If the the populace rebels, or votes for more liberal (in the "freedom" sense, not in the American politics sense) policies, they will get no education, no affordable housing, and no healthcare. Surveillance enables the government to quell such dissent. There, that's the connection.

Won't these classes rather be on how to use word processors, spreadsheets, and other Microsoft applications, and name-the-parts-of-the-computer, and such? Maybe write some Visual BASIC on the last week of the semester.

I propose we forbid (attack) violence. Then no-one will be hurt physically, and we can still have anonymous free speech.

That is a solved problem. Call it "filtering" instead and not only will The Public not object but they will demand it. To protect the children.

I think the problem rather is what to do if what I consider me "need" differs from what the Zentralkomite says I "need". Or if what I want to produce differs from what Zentral has decided I shall produce.

Notifications like those are things that should show up in the system tray, not only if I happen to go to the Start Menu.

Also needed if you happen to piss of the government and they order your accounts frozen. Then you starve unless you have cash. Or friends. Who are willing to risk "supporting a terrorist".