Or we could, you know, let people who find open source find it interesting and leave those who don't alone. It beats trying to brainwash children into your own personal vision of how society should be.

My refusal to disbelieve stems from M theorists predicting 12 dimensions and our knowledge of the 4 we can directly observe being just pathetic. We're just not currently qualified to even speculate. Science, yo; if you can't prove something, you don't go around saying it's true.

Also, it's just prudent to not go around giving the finger to things that can lightning bolt your ass unless you're absolutely certain they don't exist.

If you say so. It's been my experience that most anyone who brings up their atheism is very vocal in their gnosticism; usually to the point of being an intolerant dickhead about it. Which is why, despite not being a theist myself, I flatly reject the label of atheist.

That's closer to the definition of agnosticism. Atheism generally indicates an active disbelief without making any statement on whether the subject is willing to be convinced otherwise.

That's some quality irony there.

Nope, just the regular ones. Oklahoma doesn't get enough snow to make snow tires worth it, just enough that we're not all total noobs when some happens to fall.

One state up from Texas, so not especially blizzardville. We do plow it though because we're not likely to get another foot or two on top of it when we get 2-3 inches.

Why? 2-3 inches here and the only things we do different are leave earlier and drive slower. No chains. No pre-salting the roads. Just slow the fuck down until the roads get plowed or melt.

Erm, bit of a problem there. First, DRM was never removed. Second, streaming is still only available at shit quality. Third, prices haven't dropped on any service that even looks like it might in the future become useful.

You're an idiot. No group of devs, no matter how good they were or how many were hired, ever wrote a single piece of software more complicated than Hello World without bugs in it. Paying for bug reports instead of the standard of ignoring them or prosecuting the reporter is the right way to do things.

An interesting line of thought. By that reasoning you'd expect a venn diagram of vegetarians and abortion proponents to be two separate circles in all but the earliest term abortions. Based strictly on the average political affiliation of the two groups though, I doubt this would be the case.

If it's not yet, it will be soon. At the moment the SHA-256 algorithm is being run in the neighborhood of 15,000,000,000,000,000 times per second by miners.

Yes, for a fairly broad definition of yes anyway. There's no need to ever actually connect to any network to map them, just slurp up SSID broadcasts, maybe channel and signal strength. There is no reason to ever write any traffic to non-volatile storage.

You know, I never liked the fried chicken or watermelon stereotypes. Who the hell doesn't like fried chicken or watermelon?

Anyway, stereotypes exist because someone observed that, on average, foo is true of a significant portion of demographic bar. They simplify decision making at the expense of some accuracy.

Like many things, there are times when stereotypes are useful and times when using them is a dick move. Recognizing that a fair majority of women like flowers and chocolate is generally fine to both use and say. Recognizing that a good percentage of pregnant women are often freaking insane is impolite to say but you'd damned well better be prepared to deal with it if you're married to one.

Recognizing that most anyone replying like you did is a self-hating lib who cares about feelings more than truth and logic, that one's just too easy.