I came to the conclusion long ago that the members of the Gnome team are a bunch of lunatics living in some La-La-Land of their own.

How come they managed to irritate so many of their former users, to the point that they ditched the environment? How come it has not been able to get much traction in ten years or so, in spite of the fact that it has been aggressively pushed by the likes of Red Hat and Ubuntu? How come its impact on the mobile world has yet to be felt? Is it a coincidence that presence of Linux in the desktop remains negligible with Gnome 3.* as its flagship?

People often have two reasons for doing something: a good reason, and the real reason. In this case, the good reason is religion, while the real reason is the chance to exact some revenge for historical injustices.

It is just the native Hawaiians using the excuse of religion to stick it to the man. You can hardly blame them, bearing in mind how they have been treated historically. It is a safe bet, however, that if the political circumstances were different - e.g. if it were entirely up to native Hawaiians how things would be run in that location - the religious objections would disappear.

I have no love for Apple but I am skeptical that whatever is going on justifies that its stock should be punished like that. Investors are a hysterical bunch with a sheep-like mindset. It makes for a depressing thought the fact that such idiots have a big influence on the global economy. Bloody buffoons, always at the core of self-fulfilling negative prophesies.

Actually, this was discussed already in the 1990s. Richard Muller used it to formulate his 'Nemesis hypothesis', whereby some large body on a (very ) long orbit kind of perpendicular to the ecliptic, would be behind such events. I don't think this gained much traction though.

I will always remember where I was and what I was up to when I learned about such momentous, earth-shattering news.

This company really is on fire.

In what ways? The only area that Linux has not taken over is the desktop, and that's because of Microsoft's entrenchment, not anything to do with language used for the Linux kernel.

At any rate, staying at Daylight Saving all year round would be far better than the current biannual nonsense.

I will then use similar tools in my nefarious scripts to pretend that they are human.

Samsung has been a company on fire for a while now, always coming up with the most explosive products.

You are either a troll or else utterly delusional.

I remain to be convinced that QCs will be able to do anything of practical use that digital computers cannot do far more simply, cheaply and at least as efficiently, any time soon, or even ever. What the QC computing community has produced in the last twenty years is 5% progress and 95% hype.

MS is a for-profit organization. The fiduciary duty of those in charge of running it is to maximize profits for its shareholders, regardless of any ethical or moral considerations: if it is legal, they will do it. If it is legal and it violates principles of ethical behavior, or just basic notions of human decency, they will do it. That's the way modern capitalism works.