I like working in a place where our VP sits in the same fishbowl as the rest of us, and wears a polo shirt and jeans.

In fact, while I've seem him dressed and made up look like the front man for Rammstein (in the office, yet), I've never (in 6+ years) seen him in a suit (not even in the office).

If you knew where I worked, you'd never believe me in a million years, either. :)

Who will tell you that they are way too busy with helping the MPAA, RIAA, and other important campaign donors.

I have walked out of a job interview where they asked me why I wasn't wearing a tie: "I though you were looking for a driver programmer, not a fashion victim..."

What a hilarious and at the same time truly horrifying thought.

I apologise for the Downes Syndrome sufferers on crack who modded you Troll.

What did Jason Voorhees ever do to deserve being associated with SCO?

They still have desks?

I agree, and I want to add that among those voters, the worst (in my opinion) are those who're able to abandon their own principles on a critical non-partisan issue based upon whether there's a Demoblican or a Republocrat in office. I can't wrap my head around it, but I find it appalling — they've got zero fucking integrity* and have no business in a voting booth.

* Just like the D/R candidates.

For those interested, here are the full results from Pew Research's domestic surveillance poll, showing additional demographic breakdowns.

Then--like the Roman Empire and the birth of Barrack Obama--it never happened!

No, CRT (televisions in particular) really do make a high pitched whistle, and some of them can be quite loud. It's 15kHz more or less for a TV, and comes from the flyback, and is audible to much of the population. Whether it annoys you or not is dependent on the person, I just tune it out.

Strange, I expected a lot of common pieces between the two. The source for most things in /bin/ is the same, right ? Or are all options to, say, 'ls' different ?

I'm not trolling here, but as a Linux user I never took interest in BSD, I hardly know what it is. The impression I have is that it is solid but somewhat backwards compared to Linux. It's just strange to me that there are two similar OSes coming out the same year and they are still both here. So what are the differences besides the licensing scheme ?

I take offens... oh, you mean the bootloader!

I disagree, as far as real adoption goes. Yes, booting Linux from a floppy using a MSDOS filesystem did enable a lot of people to get exposed, but the race was lost before those people made a difference. Had BSD development not stalled for two years, many of the early commercial and big site adoptions would have gone to BSD instead. Many started with BSD and then jumped to Linux because that is where the momentum was. Red Hat's IPO sealed the deal.

BTW, I introduced Pat Volkerding to the Church of the SubGenius, and pioneered a lot of the early work with Linux at Fermilab. I know a little about these things.