I purchased Windows 95 on CD - but my sister bought a new computer which came with the OS on 30 or so floppies. And of course she screwed something up badly within a couple weeks, and had to reinstall...

>"What's not to your liking?"

Can't speak for who you are replying to, but Linus' post was unnecessary long, repetitive, and hostile. He is right, of course, but that doesn't mean it needs to be so caustic.

A mailing list that requires you *subscribe* to it *before* you start being sent messages? What kind of crazy world is this?

(hopefully that sets off your sarcasm detector...)

30 floppies in the mid-1990s... are you sure you're not remembering Windows 95, grandpa?

It's not tainted meat - it's PAINTED meat!

And something nobody has mentioned yet- the WEAR on the batteries. Those expensive batteries have a service life, and with every discharge, they lose more life. That probably costs way more than the measly sub-wholesale rate being paid. I mean, really, $150 per "Season" (which probably means year) is a joke.

And those touting "but it is voluntary"... let me introduce you to the "slippery slope", which is often a plan, NOT a fallacy. Just one example (of so many I could list):

1) You are an adult, it is your body, car, and risk.
2) Well, we are going to push a lot of education about seat belts (a good thing).
3) Mandate alarms and nags (not so bad).
4) If pulled over, you will now be warned if not wearing a seat belt (also not that bad).
5) OK, now we are going to ticket you. But only if driver not wearing, and only if there was some other offense you were ticketed for which has to be primary. And no points.
6) Now we ticket you if either front seat occupant is not wearing, but still can't pull you over for that, and has to be some other ticket issued, and no points.
7) Now we drop needing some other ticket issued.
8) Now it is any occupant.
9) Now we can pull you over ONLY for not wearing.
10) And now it has points deducted from you as well.

Give the people time to get used to each concept and turn up the temperature slowly. And there were PROMISES made along the way that it would "never be this" or "that". Then, over the decades, it is exactly what was predicted by the naysayers. (And no, I would never get in a car without wearing a seatbelt, regardless of law or penalties; if that is your line of thinking, you missed the point of the example, entirely).

Yup! And Paul Desmond got the idea for his best-known track after sneaking into the future and learning about Take-Two Interactive.

Don't worry, Trump won't rest until a white guy is running things at Intel.

Social media outrage just doesn't have any staying power. So, all a company has to do is grin and bear it for a few weeks until the next outrage-du-jour comes around... or, at worst, until people simply get tired of hearing about whatever it is that sparked the outrage in the first place.

In a few months, we'll undoubtedly start seeing the "Joe was planning to retire in 2026 - but that was before he lost his life savings" stories.

It would take you the rest of your life to answer the example question from that page you linked?

"Hummingbirds within Apodiformes uniquely have a bilaterally paired oval bone, a sesamoid embedded in the caudolateral portion of the expanded, cruciate aponeurosis of insertion of m. depressor caudae. How many paired tendons are supported by this sesamoid bone? Answer with a number."

No, they actually changed the gravitational constant!

It was mainly the work of their new intern, Q Jr.

Doh! Yes, of course I did - no idea how I managed to turn that into "CRM".

Although I wouldn't put it past the current administration to try and put tariffs on products manufactured in "blue" states...

Yeah, this is the guy who claimed drug prices either are, or are about to be, lowered by 1500%.