Is this the OS equivalent of Godwins law?

4.4.0-109 was released to fix the regression last night https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn... for me 4.4.0-108 booted successfully and OOPSed on shutdown

The US has a President that gloated about not paying tax saying that it made him "smart"

Brilliant news, lets hope this judgement sticks.

the old and new versions coexist (at least on my work Ubuntu 16.04 box) The old version is "skype" the new alpha is "skypeforlinux"

By purchasing the (good) games available for Linux I am giving those companies which produce Linux versions motivation to keep doing so.

I don't buy terrible games just because they get a Linux Release.. Of the games I listed and their metascore

XCom2 (88)
Alien Isolation (81)
Spec Ops (76)
Metro Last Light (82)
Bioshock Infinite (94)
Saints Row 4 (84)

I haven't really played SR4 yet but I'm not sure how you can say I am "settling" and "anything" is good enough for me. Of the "Indie" games I have ( and have enjoyed enormously ) they include
Faster Than Light (FTL) (84)
Don't Starve (79)
Thomas was Alone (77)

There can be some snobbishness about Triple A games. Though looking at my Steam history my top 5 games for actual hours played include 2 "indie" roguelikes. Sometimes I just want to play games that are fun and have some replayability.

I often get snooty comments from work colleagues about how I'm playing Triple A, or Double A (or some such arbitrary designation of gaming quality) late. Then when some AAA game comes out on Linux I get comments along the lines of "well you haven't got (insert arbitrary game) on Linux"

I am happy with my game collection (177 of 210 games in my library play natively on Linux) and with quality ports coming from companies like Feral on an increasingly regular basis and newer engines like Unreal 4 (and I assume Source 2) supporting Linux natively things can only get better.

I have more than enough quality games still to play I'm currently playing XCom2 and when I want to take a break from that I'm part way through Alien Isolation, SpecOps: The Line and Metro Last Light. When I finish them I'll have Saints Row 4, ARK: Survival Evolved and I may replay Bioshock Infinite since I've got a better graphics card for XCom. I'm sure by the time I've worked my way through those there will be more games available.

I'm not sure that how one group of people treats another is unrelated to how they feel or respond.

There is a great amount of wrong on both sides, certainly enough to go around. International law also frowns on Collective punishment but that doesn't seem to stop the Israeli government when it suits them. I have not claimed moral equivalence.But it seems strange to be concerned with International law when Hammas is in the wrong but the Israeli government gets a free pass for their crimes or people are even accused of anti-Semitism for simply pointing out when this is the case.

I love your use of "International Law" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Israel is not the greatest proponent of "international Law" I'm sure my karma will take a hit talking about such hot button topics

Have you cleared the cache from recovery? that fixes a lot of issues after the lollipop update.
http://www.androidpit.com/how-...

I use this on my Note 3. Its pretty awesome
http://forum.xda-developers.co...

Except this functionality hasn't been lost http://www.howtogeek.com/20371...
You can do exactly as you want. Allowing calls (or a subset of callers ) whilst stopping other notifications.
Works well enough on my custom rom (5.0.2)

Try this for you GS3 http://forum.xda-developers.co...

"My Note 3 has 3GB of RAM but due to all the shit Samsung and AT&T have stuck on the phone it only has about 1GB free." I Cant speak about AT+T firmware. But the Note 3 in UK (EE) a lot of the Samsung Apps aren't installed by default and only install if you select them from the app menu and others can be disabled ( which also un-installs any updates ). This is much better than the S3 which I rooted almost immediately to free space and remove apps. Also as the linux kernel is in use and it (rightly) tries to use all the RAM all the time. Apps you have closed may be cached etc. I think your complaint may be misguided to a degree. Though the bloatware and carrier restrictions seem much worse across the board in the US.