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I find it quite ironic that you deny humanity to humans, and seek to partition us, while in the same breath stating that "we come together where ever we can." You are still part of the top 10% richest people on the planet. By which definition of rich do you seek to divide us? I am in the 1%. Is...

Cats are solitary animals. Wild dogs are pack animals that in nature would gleefully attack dogs from a different pack that wandered into their territory. Domestic dogs have been infantilised, so never really develop true pack instincts. Humans, like many other primates, form social clusters of...

Harking back to slavery is a lazy way out. Racism isn't only white man's problem, as seems to be increasingly the narrative in the USA - everybody is capable of it, and everybody who as travelled widely has been on the receiving end of racism in some form or other. We also need to recognise...

Of course! That adaptability is both Linux's curse, and its proudest achievement. Not so much. I think a "C" is just about right...

Perhaps. I think the sweet spot is to be the infrequent user. I find my periods of enforced sobriety by being on site make my first beer taste all the sweeter, and my desire for the second beer... absent.

But this is true of just about any brain-bending chemical. In times of extreme pressure, coffee is not your friend. In times of sadness, alcohol is not your friend. Nicotine in small quantities is nootropic (enhances memory) - in larger quantities... well, it's other great use is as weed...

Every now and again, there's a burst of loud, and very rude, invective from my office. OK, I'm an engineer on an oil refinery construction site, so foul language isn't unexpected, but every now and again the choice and variety of the language would make a navvy blush. Reason: not long ago, my...

Not really - revolution is derived from revolve, so revolution really means that the wheel turns and the cycle begins again. Put another way, doing the same old shit and expecting a different outcome. When you look at the revolutions of the last few hundred years, the narrative of the poor and...

Only if the cups are this big!

I got the Metro 2033 Redux/Last Light bundle for Linux on Steam about a year ago now, when they were doing a flash sale. Only cost the equivalent of $10 or so. Bearing in mind I'm running it on an AMD Raven Ridge-based laptop, I've had some teething troubles, due to the relative immaturity of...

I have to admit, I just installed the Linux version...

Can I at least keep caffeine? Please?

I'm still lurking around in the background, but work's been a bit hectic these last few months... Wouldn't know... I'm not yet 40 3:)

If you need to ask that, you're not really a capitalist ;) That being said, as MS sells the xbox at a loss and only really makes money off the games, they're not doing it right, either...

Belated Happy Birthday, TR

Sorry.... not sorry

Not too many other options when you're 250-odd miles away from the nearest computer hardware store and travelling at 17.5-thousand mph (or thereabouts).

We could answer that if we knew how many species there were to start with. But we don't, and probably never will. Even without human intervention, species come and go. It's wise to (attempt to) mitigate or reverse human impact, but we can't and shouldn't attempt to save everything. Some species...

We're pining for the loss of biodiversity adapted for a cold-climate Earth, while setting changes in motion for a hot-climate Earth. Given that life on Earth survived after a large rock collided with the planet, reducing atmospheric oxygen from 30% to just below 20%, and taking a significant...

While it's an impressive piece of scripting, to infect a system, a person still has to download and run this. Then said person has to type in passwords for root and other systems accessed by SSH. On top of that the person originally running the virus needs to be careless, as the exploits in...