But that's exactly the point. Why is it that you automatically assume that women are weaker technologically? Institutionalized sexism.

It was probably either an automated filtering of any websites or (very unlikely) self-censorship, as HK's web traffic is not censored by the Chinese government.

No it doesn't, because the copyright holder still has a copy of his/her work. If your car's been stolen, though, you're out one car.

1.3 billion kegs beer? Wow.

Oh, did you mean the other CCP?

You didn't learn this in Maths?

You want to the install Gimp? Click here. No need to reinvent the wheel.

Why don't you try 8.10, the newest stable release?

Take off your tin foil hat. The GFW doesn't block websites with the words "China" and "Taiwan", amazingly enough, and using proxies to get to blocked websites is common practice (at least among expats, not sure about the locals).

Um, nothing is doing well right now. In case you haven't noticed, we're in a recession.

Even Google and Apple are falling.

I used to think that too. Then I realized that FOSS is also supported by companies!

Don't believe me? Go take a look at Novell, Red Hat and Sun.

Great idea, except that Picidae is blocked in China too. As are most other proxies (anonymouse.org, anyone?)

Are you trying to start a GPL vs. BSD flamewar?

First off, your kidding yourself if you think your laptops dont have DRM on them.

My laptop runs Linux, you insensitive clod!