Anyone who hasn't already kicked them to the curb, after what we know about endemic child molestation and the hierarchy's attempts to cover it up and limit liability, isn't going to be fazed in the least by this.

Not everone gets a boner from the same things that give an astronomer one.

I think the percentage of college students who major in a technical field such as CS or engineering has been decreasing.

I'm on GNOME 2 (Ubuntu 10.x), but I still use Sawfish and Balsa, and I used Galeon until a few years ago when Firefox's plugins finally caught it up (and passed it) in terms of desirable features.

I've upgraded Ubuntu to 12.x LTS on two laptops. One one I installed Mate and got things more or less working like I've had for a decade or more, though I'm not 100% happy with it. On the other the upgrade hosed itself, and I'm going to have to do a complete reinstall. For these reasons I haven't upgraded my main desktop machines at home and work, much as I'd like to get access to Steam.

That was in GNOME 1's default WM, Sawfish.

One reason I dread system upgrades is that every change to GNOME makes it harder to get my old hypercustomized desktop back.

So you're one of those old fashioned types who thinks computers are supposed to be useful for something?

And Windows 8.

I think our planet is passing through a cloud of gas or region of space that makes developers want to crank up the stupid in user interfaces.

This is going to cause a lot of societal stress over the next few decades.

If your religion's foundational documents contain a story that's in conflict with what we know about biology and cosmology, and you don't want to reject evidence-based knowledge in favor of religious tradition, you can dismiss the story as poetry intended to credit it all to God.

But if your religion's foundational documents state flat out that homosexuality is a 'sin', and science shows that it's a biological outcome no different from (say) being left handed, that's a lot harder to dismiss. Plus, clinging to it makes you condemn a whole class of people to hell for their biology.

From a sociological perspective, this is going to be very interesting to watch.

Plus it's mobile, so it can just move inland if the sea rises.

See, he's just an altruist wanting to share his with everyone else.

No, a good short story. The book-length version was boring.

And has to be good at parsing complex sentences in order to understand your point.

What he's apparently observing, but not comprehending, is that the extremes of left and right "wrap around" and meet on the far side, at least on some issues.

They didn't send it to Greenland to test it, they just got their feet and meters mixed up again.

There's the problem. The semi-sensible plan was eviscerated to get it past the Republicans and Blue Dogs in the relevant committees... who turned around and voted against it even after wringing all the concessions.

The problem, of course, is that a good system would handicap all the scalpers profiting off your misery right now. And when the scalpers trade shares on Wall Street, cutting them out of the loop isn't allowed.

In the USA there is a common view that personal and public health and wellbeing are a personal problem, but the financial wellbeing of rich people and corporations is something the government must protect.