Okay. For my part, I'll assume you don't really know a lot on the topic, and fill in the gaps with abuse of your fellow posters.

If this is not true, then well, I honestly wish you'd manage to communicate as much. Corporate personhood exists, and it's a given that it therefore leads to problems, just like any other thing.

However, if you reply at all, it will likely just be another post that's arrogant and devoid of information, such as the one I'm replying to right now. If you know so much, why do you not share your knowledge?

I think this would sound a lot more credible, were you to actually explain why you're supposedly right. Your rude, single-sentence replies to most posters don't make you look all that smart, either.

It's true that the chimpanzees will under no circumstances get the same kind of "personhood" as corporations. This does not mean that corporate personhood is problem-free, however. Working for a corporation makes you less likely to be punished personally, and being rude to other posters will not change that.

That should be *national* program. Finland is not a federation.

More powerful when they have power. A powerful desktop can run something that uses 10% of resources constantly without a problem. A powerful phone, not so much.

I'm not saying X11 takes 10% phone power constantly: I don't know. But it could be that X11 is significantly worse for battery life than Wayland, despite running without performance problems. If someone actually has any data, I'd be interested to hear about it.

"Not the horrible, shitty, anti-trust-deserving US cell phone market" is a niche now? I thought it was most of the world...

I don't have a TV, and don't watch TV/movies other than through my faux-HD monitor.

I understand not everyone is like me, and that's OK. But in my circle of friends, it's really common to not have a TV and not care. Is this the experience of others, too?

Also, this whole 4K thing reeks of "we tried to sell 3D, failed, now trying desperately with the next thing..." But please reply if you're really into 4K, too...

Can you provide a source which shows acetaminophen has no medical purpose in those drugs? Those drugs are used in combination in most places I've heard of, so there would have to be a worldwide conspiracy for it to be just a poison.

A quick search found this: http://www.bmj.com/content/313/7053/321. That says that if you want to remove one drug from the combination, it's codeine. Also, up to 10% of white people apparently "immune" to codeine (side note: I do not know the academic field of medicine, and do not know if that paper is connected to anyone/thing reputable).

So basically, acetaminophen is an analgesic. You can get it by itself, or in combination with another analgesic. I think it's somewhat less far-fetched to believe that a painkiller is there for pain relief, than that it's there because of a worldwide conspiracy...

Per http://www.nrel.gov/news/press/2013/2269.html there are ~691 000 square miles of cropland in the US. 18 000 square miles fit inside that 38 times over.

So basically, this is just not true. It's FUD. Get your facts straight before accusing others of being blind.

I think you're basically right, but you're forgetting one group. The corrupt POS slimebags on both sides, who will betray and destroy anything and everything, as long as they get money.

"All" Republicans wouldn't be for something other than oil, because their paymasters aren't about to approve that. Some percentage of Republicans would just look at the electricity price, though, because you always get both good and bad people.

Using your links, that would mean 30 kW constantly per capita, assuming seven billion humans. A quick check shows that's too high. Not to mention that the diagram in one of your links shows solar would take a lot less space.

Can you show those calculations you did? At this point, you're starting to sound like solar being bad is the most important thing, facts be damned. But I'll admit I'm wrong if you can show some credible data.

Uhh, the guy flaming in this case is working for Ubuntu. I don't know this, but I'd bet he's *employed* by Ubuntu.

Meaning, he probably has even fewer excuses.

And if making distros is a thankless job, maybe he should have some respect for others doing it? The guy behaved badly, end of story.

Actually, ISON is still on its way towards the sun. And it has been observed with the naked eye. Still not a great comet, though.

Wikipedia says that thing was fourth magnitude when visible in the night sky: that's not very bright. But it can *seem* bright in good dark skies. Dark skies were, of course, much more common in the seventies than they are now. Light pollution eats comet tails for breakfast.

Now, few comments (nice typo...COMETS) are really impressive in the night sky. Hale-Bopp was one exception. Most are impressive only close to the sun - this was true of Kohoutek, and will be true of ISON if it survives.

The predictions for ISON place it very close to Kohoutek in terms of brightness, actually. This brightness is for the closest approach to the sun - meaning best viewing is right after sunset, or just before sunrise. If things pan out, we might get to see a huge, bright tail against a backdrop of somewhat dark sky.

Certain death?? Even assuming that a large proportion of passengers are incapable of fighting, even a group of hijackers is likely to be outnumbered three to one. They will not get into the cockpit before the crew can use the address system.

The passengers will communicate using their cell phones, just like last time. The hijackers won't fool anyone again. And, as another poster said, they will never get to the point of telling anyone anything.

The rules have changed, and you're also failing to account for what desperate people can do.

Not very large, but they will sound an alarm from one detected particle and up. =)