I forgot, washing our stuff in the laundry doesn't waste resources at all. Water treatment plants run on zero energy and are 100% efficient and we're not wasting anything at all.

You buy meat and produce in June. You buy a box of cereal in August.

Every time your family uses the box of cereal, they may be getting bacteria on their hands because of the meat and produce that were in the bag a *month* ago that has grown on the insides of the bag like an incubator.

Reusable bags are disgusting.

You forgot:

D - its irrelevant because we should learn to adapt and get over ourselves.

I posted about this on my G+ feed a while back; at some point, we went from being told about Global Warming to being warned about Climate Change.

Climate Change can only be denied of course if the climate never ever changes (which it does and will) and so Climate Change advocates are always right and skeptics always wrong.

While the specifics of what Climate Change stands for may be true, the nomenclature is the problem @mwvdlee is noting I believe.

You mean non-experts who have a high tolerance for research and and paper-writing -- high IQs are not required to get PhDs, just dedication.

Because compiler compilers exist and you could roll your own compiler that turns Pythonesque commands into proper nftables rules if you really wished to.

The fact that you think 'boxen' is a stupid term shows you're a neophyte who has no business judging computer expertise. When I hear people using good old hacker speak, I know I'm dealing with someone who has probably accumulated some digital wisdom. Also, boxen is a useful term when encompassing everything from my photo frame to a server in one term where 'computer' is too narrowly interpreted.

For everyone else:

"Boxen: An alternative pluralization of boxes. In 60-80s hacker lingo (when hacker [meant] something very different, btw), it originated from vax/vaxen (the, at the time, correct way to [refer] to two or more vax computers). Because of this unusual pluralization, it because common to use -en instead of -es or whatever else was correct for all words ending in x or with an x sound, such as soxen or socksen for more then one sock. Box was/is usually referring to a computer (pc, server, workstation, whatever)."

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=boxen

I think you phrased that wrong.

The GPL applies at all times, and requires source with any binary redistribution.

Sure, within a company, this only means making the source code available to the servers its used on, but any engineer, any developer, any QA person who uses that software has every *right* to that modified source code.

Actually according to recent revelations, the NSA may not care about what's legal in the US either ... but they certainly don't care about Canadian legalities, despite being allies, so long as they don't get caught.

I don't care if developers are dicks. Why do you?

I use his software, I like his software, and somewhere, somehow, his personality is partly to blame, so I tolerate it even when not embracing it.

I suspect that in reality, being surrounded by polite morons would be loathsome.

Tell us how you really feel.

I keep seeing people say this, and I see no logical justification for it.

Yes, it would be *nice* if everyone was polite, but for people with specific personality types, its really not worth the additional energy wasted on trying not to hurt someone's feelings. For some people, it really does require a lot of effort.

In fact, at a logical level, wouldn't it make more sense to embrace our genius developers and let them be rude and obnoxious to benefit from their abilities rather than make them change to suit us?

In security software, shipping nothing is preferable to shipping bugs, especially when shipping a product does not net you any more revenues.

For those who want to know numbers: http://www.ontario-hydro.com/index.php?page=electricity_rates_by_province

We're all vampires up here, there's no sunlight most of the year :)