I don't have to vote. I'm a New Zealand citizen.

Yes, your ISP will be able to tell that you are using Google from the IP address but all of the communication (that includes the web address) should be encrypted.

Most distros use their own fork of the linux kernel. There's nothing wrong with that

I would've loved to get Slacware working but unfortunately it crashed when I installed Adobe Flash (I played alot of flash games) so I took the easy way out and settled with Debian.

For my 13th birthday I got a laptop and decided to try out Ubuntu on a virtual machine. I liked it, so I dual booted it with Windows 7. When I was 14, I replaced Ubuntu with Debian and got rid of the Windows partition. I'm now 15 years old and still happily using Debian. I didn't like libreoffice so I now write my assignments in Latex whenever possible. I still use Windows at school but most applications are cross-platform.

Obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/250/

I liked lasers before they were cool.

That's quite possible considering the temperatures the xbox can get up to.

Last year our school gave us laptops with Windows 7 (you may have read about them http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/09/27/0252235/au-government-to-build-unhackable-netbooks). Well needless to say, pretty much everybody got administrator access on the laptops within the first couple months of having them. Most of us got a three day suspension and our laptops wiped. Some were lucky bastards and either didn't get caught or managed to bullshit their way out of it.

Well actually God neither bad tempered nor crazy.

-- Romans 9:22

That's why you don't use "Linux desktop of the month", you use xmonad.

CDs are quite cheap these days. Just buy a bunch of blank CDs, burn your favorite violent video game to them and hand them in for $25 per disk.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ClickThrough