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That should be "why i like google", with quotes.

I binged "why i like microsoft", and received 133 hits.

In comparison, bing gives 211.000.000 hits for why i like google.

> but outside of a few basement dwellers

And who do you think the core audience of /. are?

Suggestion: Install some of the demos or free games available (I can recommend Peggle Extreme casual or the Sam&Max point and click adventure), and test out if the steam offline mode works for you. It has improved a lot recently, but some still reports problems, therefore the suggestion to try it for yourself.

His adventures are available from Project Gutenberg, so I would assume they are safely in the Public Domain by now.

I won't talk about intelligence, but the ability to score high in IQ tests is correlated to both employment status and social background.

The EU Commission is a non-elected body which has as it sole mandate[1] to restrict the rights of citizens, and extend the rights of EU based corporations. It is the Commission that negotiate these treaties, and in general propose new legislation.

The EU Parliament is an elected body which cannot propose new legislation, but can, and sometimes do, block the proposals from the commission. The good stuff you hear from the EU is usually from the Parliament, but they contribute their share of crap as well, as parliaments do everywhere.

[1] Judging by its actions.

You can then do online banking directly from the host OS (if you deem it secure enough), or from a different VM.

I'm pretty sure the main purpose is for porting Unix applications to MS Windows, and/or for maintaining a common build environment for the two platforms. At least that is what I use it for. I actually compile with MinGW as the application itself have very few OS dependencies, Cygwin "just" provides the pure build environment.

I also used to use Cygwin/X11 to provide a Unix like interactive programming environment, but as the MS version of GNU Emacs is quite good these days, and GNU Emacs itself provide most of the common environment I need, I don't bother with that anymore.

What is now SCO used to be called Caldera, one of the first Linux companies. The old Unix (Xenix) company SCO is now Tarantella.

Modern coal, wood and straw burning plants are all quite clean. If you see a polluting one, it is either from the 70's or before, or build with technology from that era. I guess countries with lax environmental laws will still allow such polluting power plants to be build, but Denmark's environmental laws are not lax.

The source has him as Larsen, also here is his work page.

Speed don't kill. Sudden deceleration kills.

Outlaw sudden deceleration.