I think we found the Gnome 3 user!

... they did not.

The software engineers are required to extract the problem out of customers, who often don't know what they want.

Last Friday, after one too many "Microsoft disabled X" and "Microsoft changed Y", I have moved my two Windows 10 Pro licenses from the hardware to virtual machines. They can bork themselves all they want, the worst it would happen I have to scp the backup back and untar it. This is getting too far...

"And that, my lord, is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped."

Even holy Yoda was tempted, and he should have known better...

You may make the case, but you won't win it when you argue in front of people whose lives and family became "collateral damage" because of the leader's "honest mistake".

How many WMD's were in Iraq?

In actual newly designed buildings, the architect cost is 20-25% (source: Fred Brooks). Not talking about McMansions here that are built like refrigerators on the assembly line. And plenty of large buildings (either residential, commercial or industrial) run over money and time budget.

Sure, Linux (and BSD) allows you to maintain (or to pay somebody to maintain) old kernels on old hardware (without allowing a third party to interfere). It does not mean that whatever you need will fall from the sky, on the back of a unicorn.

Free as in freedom, not as in beer.

The restaurant owner now has more income, so he maybe buys a nicer car.

Or

The customer now spends less on food, so now he buys some nicer shoes.

You forgot the third clause, "and the former cook is now starving".

The money does not disappear, but if they move away from the cook, what is the going to live on? "Find something else?" you say - then the money has been moved around a bit more, but did the general happiness increase?

No, the signals on the headers are TTL level, not 12V needed for RS-232. You need a TTL to Serial adapter or one of the FTDI CDC USB-to-TTL adapter such as this: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9873

That is false. They pay all the taxes, including social security tax, without any expectation they will receive any of the benefits if they don't became permanent residents or citizens.

The team who won prayed harder! Duh'

Just wait until the second...

Hey, my Honda Civic was built in Ontario, you insensitive clod! I can switch the odometer to km/h if I want to.

Mod the parent up!