And TIbet has been part of China for 800 years. Another little fact dumb westerners prefer to ignore.

Communists aren't allowed to join the communist party anymore, even left-leaning members (like Bo Xilai) aren't allowed anymore. Funny little factoid about the CCP: back in 2005, party leaders discussed changing the party's name from CCP to Chinese Republican Party, but rejected the idea since a splinter Communist party may appear... sniff sniff

Real programmers use a magnetized needle and a steady hand

It's an open source project, all it takes to speed up development is that more people get involved in it. Almost all of the code of MenuetOS was written by the same guy (who also holds a regular job, according to google), that's the main reason why it took so long. The C compiler included is also the work of a single programmer... guess we could call this kind of software as "vanity software"

"Pointless" as a tag? Really? Is this Slashdot at all?

The common denominator between the war on terror and climate change denial is quite clear. The war on terror has redistributed enormous amounts of wealth from the government (aka taxes, everyone's money) to a few dozen selected businesses while climate change denial does the same with heavy industries as regulations raises costs, so... yep, it's the good ol' profit motive that is behind this catastrophe. It all gets worse when you take into account how popular the post-hoc ideology invented to justify this slow genocide is. "Climate change is a conspiracy" is a conspiracy.