A lack of sympathy does not imply that you condone what is being done, only that there is no empathy for the person.

Does my name look like deusmetallum? No. I just think you're an ass and wanted you to know.

Let me guess, your a Windows shop?

Not much. Most of that population growth comes from other areas, like China or India.

Change for the sake of change is usually not a good thing when it comes to enterprise systems.

FTFY.

Yep, that idle GDM session sure eats CPU cycles!

You clearly knew what you were talking about.

Well, I'd also happen to recommend against your managing anything mission-critical.

Workstations. You know, stations that you use to do work.

I'd imagine nobody codes for processor features that are limited to a particular brand or model lineup...

<stares blankly>

Shooting from the tip? Even if you meant shooting from the hip, that makes no sense.

CentOS wouldn't make changes like that. Their changes are limited to the removal of branding, and stripping out the RHN stuff.

He's probably complaining about the greyscale subpixel antialiasing. "Most" people are used to the RGB/BGA/whatever methods instead. In my case I can't stand those, and find the settings in that screenshot to be quite agreeable. ... that said one of the first things that would happen is my setting the fonts to the DejaVu fonts, instead of whatever they are using.

Who do you think the Armed Services are? They are the same citizenry.

If you think the Army is going to start murdering citizens en masse just because they were ordered to, you are delusional.

I don't see those as being connected.

It's the same argument as "understand vs condone" - "yes, you can understand someone doing something without condoning it." They are not intrinsically linked.