In my (admittedly geek) household, every adult has:
  - a desktop
  - a fullsize laptop
  - a portable computing device (netbook, iPhone, etc.)

The desktop is for the things that the laptop can't do. The portable device is more portable than the laptop. As laptops get better, so do desktops, so they tend to leapfrog each other.

Last time I checked, Raid 1 was fault tolerant.

Because I've yet to see a 13" latitude w/ > 1600 horizontal resolution. I do, however, have a 1680x1050 screen in my thinkpad. However, it's more convenient to carry a netbook the random places which I visit.

I have a slightly different take on this - I view them as two different applications.

A netbook is a light, portable computing device for doing email and web whilst on the road. I do very little else with it.

My laptop is so that I have enough screen resolution, disk space and CPU horsepower to run VMs and do development while sitting on the couch or on a client site.

My desktop is for when I need even more resolution, CPU horsepower, or memory than my laptop can provide. That said, I mainly use it for storage, and am actually going to be moving the services it provides to the household (CUPS, Trac) to a desktop atom board, and then it will spend most of its time asleep. I'll WOL it when I need it (either from the Trac server or my laptop), and possibly have the BIOS start it up at midnight to download podcasts, and then let it go back to sleep when idle for too long.

Yeah, because the Aussies who wanted to keep guns all moved to the US.

My wife and I are both software engineers. We live in a nice house on 5 acres in a rural area. This means that fire and EMS response is about 10 minutes (because we have fire and ems in town), and police response is about 20 minutes (because all we have is a county sheriff (far) and state police (farther)).

We have smoke detectors, fire extinguishers, a chemifex chimney fire suppressor stick and a hose.
We have first aid kits, plus all the household goods which can be pressed into service if necessary (old linens, etc.)
We have a variety of household firearms suitable for all manner of varmints, both large and small.

I don't see what the difference amongst all of these things is. They are all part and parcel for self-sufficiency and dealing with the realities of where we live.

I was sorting range pickup brass one day while watching a movie with my wife, and came across a 9mm. My wife exclaimed "what the heck is that?". I told her that it was a 9mm.
Her: And cops actually shoot that at people and expect it to do something?
Me: Yep.
Her: I think I'll stick with the .45.

I love my wife.

+1. From experiences from back in my volunteer firefighter days, I can go from fully asleep to fully alert and pulling on my trousers in about two seconds. Then again, I've always been a light sleeper.

That said, I already DO enter a pin when I need access to my bedstand gun, as it is secured by a lockbox. However, *I* chose the method of securing my weapon, not some idiot congresscritter.

You miss one point - many Linux users don't really care if Linux competes with Windows and OSX. As long as it works for us, and keeps working for us, why do I care if you run it or not?

Ted Kennedy spent most of his career attempting to subvert the constitution of these United States either directly (all control of small arms and light weapons violates the second amendment o the US constitution) or indirectly (Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac/the Public option are end-runs around the tenth amendment by making a government run private corporation to do that which the government cannot legally do).

In addition to whatever he did in his personal life, he is guilty of (at best) violation of his oath of office and (at worst) treason.

Minor technical reason:

64 bit OS's don't run on 32 bit CPUs, which is most of the netbook lines. While there are a few Atom models which are 64 bit, the majority of them are 32 bit. I don't think MS wants to abandon that market to Linux, since it would allow netbooks to become a Linux "gateway drug".