You haven't succeeded in establishing a common language. You have to do that first.

Just take a survey of all Indian government software licenses. Given the expense and the insanity involved in tracking MS licenses, I'm sure that they could be found to owe at least 3.4 Billion in Licensing and penalty costs.

they said that about paper every time it's been invented, but the problem with paper is it's inability to handle too little humidity (dry rot) too much humidity (mildew etc) and it's tempting nesting site for insects that routinely eat tree leaves. oh and it's bitrate per energy put into it is atrocious especially if you throw in modern hermetically sealed deoxygenated and humidity controlled environs. but it is easy to copy, any schooled child can copy letters from one piece of paper to another. but computers are even more awesome for data sharing and copying. even if laws against it exist. but i digress. having an optical backup is fine, there are times where optical is necessary, but it doesn't prevent accidental damage of discs or make sorting them easier. bitrot detection is an underserved market. raid has it, bluray doesn't and some filesystems actively have deduplication to reduce the number of copies left undeleted are few. anyways, the best way to check for bitrot is by scanning the md5sum on them with a script that runs automatically on the server that sends out the files to the offsite and if bitrot is detected it simply requests the data from the off site storage. before it is lost.

Not according to the cost accountants. Money is money and associated with salary as that is a different cost center etc.

Consider the doctrine: Death is actual beginning. "Life" we have now, is like life of the foetus in the womb. Wanting to live forever is as vain a wish - and non-sensical - as wishing eternal gestation.

Yup.

I meant like XX for Beer, XXX for whiskey. ;-)

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What you have is two different world views, that lack a single frame of reference to have an honest dialog. Doing anything other than trying to establish such a frame of reference ( which is what Dawkins et all do), is fruitless.

Science doesn't need anything, its science. The last thing I'd hope anyone would try using it to do, would be to prove an un-provable statement. That would seem to be the atheist version of heresy.

I am advocating that pushing change too hard and ignoring users makes them die hard afraid of change which puts the cost to you.

I just saw a video yesterday that asked users what a browser was? Answer was Yahoo or Google. these were not nursing home seniors but average Joes! Asking them to change is beyond their ability to gasp.

What are the odds that JP will make their own? They mine their own and viola FREE money and their own printing press!

I think that's a ringing endorsement for not using Microsoft Exchange, plus however many 3rd party add-ons and "business process integration" crap corporations always bolt-on to it. Exchange on it's own is fairly reliable -- as long as you aren't constantly poking at it. (even more so if you don't let the internet talk to it.) But there are, indeed, significantly more stable email platforms than Exchange.

Go search past stories for Firefox benchmark. FF uses least amount of ram

Dark chocolate is kind of healthy, and can be organic as well as fairly traded.

I'd suggust the following replacement:

http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/products/whole-foods-market-organic-dark-chocolate-bar-tanzania-schoolhouse-project

I mean its for kids! In Africa! How better to not be evil, than by activily doing not evil?