the GPL's most successful project, Linux, is stuck on version 2.

This problem will go away once GNU/Hurd is ready for prime time.

The FOSS community has spoken with their feet.

I suppose it's better than eating them.

Oh, the DATA BREACH.

See also: Streisand Effect.

I'd really like to upgrade yesterday, but I need to get my hair cut. Oh, and the yard is such a mess...

I need, uhmmm, a thing - sort of like the other thing. And it needs to just, sort of, work.

If they need any help with the reverse process, you know where to find me.

Are you talking about pairing? That's for if an MP's sick or can't get a babysitter.

Fran's first assignment at IBM was to teach the research community FORTRAN, a new complex language IBM had announced just three months before.

Would never happen now. Some headhunter would filter her out for not having two years experience in it.

Consider some future in which a couple of right wing billionaires with massive global corporations decide to muzzle the campaigns and candidates of the left.

Nah. That could never happen, not even in Australia.

When did this happen? I need to know so I can respond "This is outrageous and unconstitutional" or "If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear".

That would be a violation of privacy! Corporations are people too.

What's the point, he tells them everything he's going to do anyway.

Is it a Wetherspoons? The old loony git might be the owner.

Replaceable isn't the same as disposable; I'd suspect the owners still need to insure them. And if a particular type of ship or a particular operator starts having a bad record then premiums for them will go up.

As for the second point, what will all the specialised ships do whilst not being employed for a single task?

Make the baffles removable. They could either drop into rails attached to the side of the hold, or there are these new-fangled fasteners that sort of have a sloping ridge going around them. You twist them the other way and they come off!