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In lieu of a source, how's about you try to disprove it using data that shows that people prefer to buy Alienware (or other branded) gaming rigs over building their own PC's?

>This coming from the guy who just told someone their problem is that they are running Linux Mint...

Nice Ad Hominem [1] you threw out there.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

Because none of you seem to be reading anything outside your own little threadwars:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6847940

"Steam is included in the Linux Mint 16 repositories and you shouldn't have issues installing it from the package manager. Or you can always "apt-get install steam". Like most Linux applications, you are better off installing the application from the package manager instead of from the upstream website."

now stop spreading FUD.

so then, your answer is "Yes. I am saying that Linus' father doesn't understand his son, and that he misinterpreted a "joke" to be something serious enough to provide testimony about in EU parliament."

Christianity is a massively-multiplayer alternate reality game, is it not?

I consider schemes such as this as a subtle attempt to kill the freedom and open nature of the web. It appears I'm not alone.

> I recommend heavy use of a notebook to keep track of what you're doing, and so that you can refer to it the next day.

I've been using basket [1] for almost a decade to overcome cannabis-related memory-loss and organization issues. Even in it's semi-broken Qt4 version, it's still one of the three killer apps for the KDE desktop (clementine and krita being the others). I'd love to find a replacement, but nothing really comes close.

[1] http://basket.kde.org

So how's 2007 treating you?

Don't worry, by 2013, KDE 4 is a better and more stable UI than OS X. :)

Just to reiterate, are you saying that Linus' father doesn't understand his son, and misinterpreted a "joke" to be something serious enough to provide testimony about in EU parliament?

Interesting. His father clearly thought he was telling the truth. did you watch the video? Seems the found it important enough to bring up to the EU when giving testimony about mass surveillance.

Canonical is now starting to throw its weight around on things like Graphic interfaces (Semi-proprietary Mir vs. Wayland), User Privacy (Selling Unity Lens search results to Amazon), and then there's the Reality-Distortion Field; Shuttleworth is starting to become a little too much like Steve Jobs (harrassing people like the KWin Author), but without all the legal/business chops Jobs had. People are starting to become Ubuntu zealots. Not linux zealots or GNU zealots, or even those interested in Free Software. just zealots of the Ubuntu distribution. And if you say something against it, they'll downvote and flame away in response.

I moved to Arch and Gentoo, personally.

I wish you luck with your microsoft vestment. I'd advise you to diversify, however; Skills only relevant in a (rapidly decreasing) fraction of the computer market will only provide limited rewards in the future.

They're trying to prolong the inevitable death of television.

I agree with you, and I hope they continue their glorious plan to follow current trends rather than be market leaders, all the way to the end-goal of being an also-ran or footnote in history.

After watching the last 20 years of Microsoft's rise, domination, and fall, I've concluded that no tech corporation should be the 800lb gorilla for more than 5 years. At that point, it should be considered an area ripe for disruption. I'm seeing Apple, Google, and Canonical (!) falling into that category now. The sooner they're disrupted/replaced, the better off the rest of us will be.

Also see: Sealand and L. Ron Hubbard's SeaOrg.

> Then I'm sure you don't buy any products that contain Samsung NAND NVRAM, nor do you purchase anything with Qualcomm chips, as a significant portion of their revenue comes from aggressive patent licensing, right?

Definitely adding them to my list of companies to not buy, thanks for the tips.

replying because I'm going to refer to this comment as a prime example of how HN's moderation is going downhill in all future posts. Thanks for the ammo.

I don't know why your comment was greyed, but I find it interesting that the poisoning the well [1] in the grandparent was granted a nice black font.

[1] http://www.logicallyfallacious.com/index.php/logical-fallaci...

On behalf of the rest of the world, I thank you for not aiming to acquire that power, then.

Wow. Perhaps we can use this as a good example of absolute power corrupting absolutely?

I was considering the offering up the computer (asset) as payment, or, at the very least, collateral, on the charges. Since they're using accounting/banking terms for these charges anyway (how often do you see "Escrow" used in a court case?), no reason to not try to settle/close this as if it were just another probate/bankruptcy issue. :)

your comment is calibrating, because it shows that there is a limit to how much privacy invasion the average american will stand for. Thank you for being so forthcoming.

Man. we could play cliche bingo with this post. You confuse a distribution with the kernel, say devices don't work (cos it's still 2005), or exclaim that it's just too hard to learn. Apparently, you've never written a program in C in your 20-year programming career, either. Perhaps someone could do a kickstarter to fund a better trolling template.

but I'll assume you're genuine in your opinions. Try kubuntu 12.10, then come back and tell us how much you hate linux again. I dare you.

> First, the court ordered that Thuen be served with the demand for his computer without prior notice. According to the order, this is something that the court can do in extreme situations to prevent evidence from being spoiled.

I'd accept upon equal consideration being provided. Why should he have to be forced to pay for what is essentially a fishing expedition by the prosection? would they have a case should the computer not be taken?

how about a headline that tells the truth about the situation: Court grants Prosecution's request to confiscate computers due to pro-hacking statement on corporate website.

funniest thing not discussed: as this is a civil case, they needed the respondant's agreement to seize the computer. So the Prosecution was able to get agreement of the parties, then the Judge ruled accordingly.

we're not really venturing into "consulting" per se; more of a franchise sort of setup, where everyone interested in growing ensures their product and growing space meets our internal standards, which meet or (in most cases) exceed the requirements listed in the Controlled Drugs & Substances Act. We're cooperating at every step with Health Canada to keep our product and facilities as safe as possible, in order to deliver directly to customers come April 2014, when the MMAR/MMPR switch flips.

While we've met many people looking for a legal loophole to commit crimes, we're only really interested in those people willing to be in harmony with the government's new MMPR program, and are focused on growing medicine for sick people.

We understand there's a massive Blue Ocean of legal consumer cannabis product opportunities that will be opening up here in ten years, but weeding out (sorry) the criminal element is of paramount importance to us before even thinking of expanding our scope to cover those markets.

medicalcannab@urssmail.org and I'll happily fill you in.

Canada is a whole new ballgame for Cannabis startups.

Prime Minister Harper announced that legalization is coming in the next 10 years, tops. We have 6 months before the new regulations are in place, which open the floodgates for corporate cannabis providers. We're currently in a cannabis gold rush right now, so I figured this would be a great time to start a Cooperative that courts illegal growers into becoming legal ones, if just to prevent clogging the courts with people trying to produce medicine for sick people.

We've gotten a lot of support from Health Canada, too, as it seems that there's a massive contingent within that's unhappy with MMAR (the previous regulations) going away. We haven't even sought outside (public or semi-private) funding yet, because we haven't had to. :)

we have a website with a fantastic (imo) domain name, but we're keeping it quiet until we're closer to launch. hoping to pimp it here when it's ready.

Ah, so you were moving the goalposts, 5 posts back, when your statement about "toy currency" was rebuffed.

Right. so the Bangladeshi Taka is not a globally-recognized currency. got it. we should probably get it de-listed from xe.com, then.

> By the way, were it not for abandoning the gold standard, the US would not be able to finance a perpetual state of war.

you're correct, but a few things:

1) the gold standard never fully went away; while we implemented Keynesian fiat money, we then pegged it to Oil production, hence the term "Petrodollar". It was a little amusing that we went to war in Iraq (under the WAR ON TERROR banner) immediately after Hussein switched to the Euro as the default currency. [1] Even in it's weakened state, the Petrodollar is still the main currency of choice.

2) The Gold Standard switch is the tip of the iceberg. We should be talking about the US Bankruptcy. Check out the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917 (specifically, the 1933 amendment) [2], and House Joint Resolution 192 of June 5th, 1933 [3]. Those two acts set up the perpetual state of war in the US, though some would say it happened when congress went sine die during the civil war.

3) Fiat money is _awesome_ in a world in bankruptcy. Since 1933, people/citizens are the source of all money. we live in a world of abundance now since the industrial revolution, and in the next 20 years, as machines take over all the old grunt-labor jobs, we're going to have a glut of people unable to do the jobs they were trained to do. under any resource-backed economy (gold, oil), this would be catastrophic. However, this is why we have institutions like the Bank of International Settlements in place, to post bonds and discharge debt for insolvent countries/corporations. Money is debt, as the Youtube video tells us. We're now in a world where a Promise to Pay (an IOU) is in fact the money itself [4]. In this world, everyone that has a "Sophisticated Investor" level of understanding of the game can act as their own BIS, effectively becoming another Carnegie, Rockefeller, Warburg, or Oppenheimer.

I suspect you're a lewrockwell.com reader, or at least one who follows a more libertarian leaning (correct me if wrong). Back when I was championing the gold standard, I used to say a lot of the same things. Much of what they said was right, but was missing the massive caveat that it was only correct within the confines of HJR-192. Gold/Silver is only payable for private commerce outside the jurisdiction of Wickard v. Filburn [5] nowadays. Michael Badnarik, former Libertarian Presidential Candidate, teaches a common law class that explains many of these concepts, so that you can preserve and exercise those pre-1933 rights [6].

[1] http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,998512,...

[2] http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/12/95a

[3] http://www.focusoncommerce.net/index_htm_files/LAW%20-%20Hou...

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negotiable_instrument

[5] http://www.lawnix.com/cases/wickard-filburn.html

[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-a_yR1jzHY