Yeah, indeed. Now the passengers are protected from bottled water, deodorant AND ipods and books!

Seriously now, bannig every trivial item or behaviour that once got abused is not only ineffective, but also dangerous. Because 1. Every trivial item or behaviour is subject to being abused, and if you keep banning them one by one as soon they get abused will create a system that it's unusable and inhuman 2. That system will not protect from the very danger it was created to protect people from. It's the wrong battle to fight. The enemy is not everyone who goes to the toilet and drink bottled water. The enemy is someone who wants to kill people, and will use whatever means necessary to do that. As soon you ban something they did, they will come up with something new, and will attack in a way no one thought before, and get people by surprise, while they are busy fighting everyone who just wants to got to the toilet and drink water or read a book.

A Beta tag only makes sense if there is a "final" release planned at some point in the future. If it's going to be forever in Beta, it becomes meaningless, just like those web pages of 1999 with an eternal "under construction" gif.

Although one can argue that exposing kids to sex scenes can be harmful to them, (partially, even) nudity does not equals automatically to sex, you know...

You mean, besides the people in both sides that are being bombed, having their homes destroyed and children killed? Well, I suppose those doesn't count, after all, they have more pressing issues at the moment than voting in a /. poll, so, yeah, who cares?

Well, the US of A, for instance, cares a lot for what happens there. Go figure, those crazy bastards, huh? But in any case, they do care. Maybe if you ask yourself why, you can find a reason to care also (doesn't matter where you from or live - I'm not american and never been in America - what the US cares about generally afects the whole world)

That's why I get pissed off by advertisements on cable TV (in BR, at least, that happens all the time): I pay for TV AND have to watch comercials. Worst of two worlds :(

There is millions of dollars at stake when a movie is made. Everyone is afraid of putting their asses on the line for something that's is unproven, so they stick with what has a better chance, in their point of view, of succeeding and bringing back the money invested (and thus, not destroying anyone's careers), ie, something that has already succeeded before - even if in another media. I mean, I agree with you, I'd love to see a original script, or, well, semi-original, at least, and I think they should at least try to do some original stuff instead of endlessly doing the same stuff over and over again with a new skin, but I can see why they usually don't.

Your kitchen conditions are worst than the Martian conditions, I'm afraid... :)

Well, I dunno when it was the last time you flew KLM, or which itinerary you did, but I flew KLM in 4 transatlantic flights this year, and they had a private system, yes, running red hat. True, it had problems in 50% of the time, but it was a private entertainment system.

KLM, the Royal Dutch Airlines also uses Linux - I saw the boot during one flight. It was a red hat - took a picture of it :)