Still works beautifully from a hardware perspective (other than the battery) after installing an SSD and max'ing out the RAM. Installed linux with an XFCE desktop after it became too old for Mac OS a few years back. I keep it down in the basement workroom. Works perfectly fine for web browsing, word processing, etc.

I have a second 2012 MBP that's still clinging to Mac OS and runs like butter with 16 GB RAM, dual SSDs in a RAID 0 config (took some tweaking after El Capitain). Kids use it without complaint.

Right to repair needs to be a thing.

https://youtu.be/bWdWsaZTHqo

I get that, but I honestly don't know the answer to the following:

How do we differentiate between (a) the "asker" using his/her position to make those implications (i.e., did s/he intend those implications) and (b) the "askee" perceiving implications that weren't there or weren't intended?

Does it matter? I had presumed that it does matter because that's generally how society and law operate, i.e., we hold people accountable for their intentions and preserve "strict liability" treatment for a very small and carefully defined class of actions.

If the intentions of the "asker" do not matter or if they're even simply less important than the perceptions or sometimes decades-old recollections of the "askee", then we should change current sexual harassment law and embark on a widespread public education campaign that tells people that the first ask by itself does, in fact, constitute sexual harassment when directed at a person with relatively less power.

The longer recording is available at:

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1578001794?bctid=96943642001

I did a clean install of 9.10 on a new HTPC that I had recently built and have thus far had absolutely zero problems. No HDMI video or sound kinks (or at least none that weren't present in Jaunty, all of which were easily remedied); networking is fine; the IR remote works; Boxee runs when installed via the Jaunty repo; etc.

I will say that I've been burned in the past by awkward upgrades from one release to the next with Ubuntu and the fact that others have had issues this time around is no surprise to me.

Nonetheless, on the basis of my own personal experience and, I suspect, the experience of others, I think it'd be better to mention that all (or substantially all) of users' frustrations relate to upgrades to 9.10 rather than fresh installs thereof.

It's not nearly that simple. Putting aside the issue of self-control, there are also many instances in which a President would want to deny ever having *received* a certain message, which is much harder to do when you check your email yourself on your Barackberry. Look at how easy it was for Bush and his senior staff to deny having received credible intelligence about a potential attack on 9/11. Had that intelligence been sent to him via email, and had he received that message on a blackberry, his administration would have been dead and buried years ago.

The severing of your electronic tethers is a luxury not to be taken lightly, my friend. Relax and enjoy the ocean breeze and various ports of call.

How overweight does one have to be to *not* notice the BlackBerry vibrating when it's tucked against one's person?