MS.. we dont hate you because you were a douchebag in the 90's. We hate you because youre still a douchebag. Stop being a douchbag and maybe we wont hate you.

Signed,
everyone on the planet except your employees and shills.

Wasnt Kdenlive the one where the main developer walked away and they thought he was dead for a while?

Google up GMO gut flora study for some fun and valuable prizes.

Guitar and weekly or so board games night with some friends.

About 5 years ago I was a pretty heavy into gaming.. probably 60+hrs a week (with a full time job). I realized it was eating up too much of my time and money so I pulled the plug on the whole thing, sold it all, and never looked back. Best decision I ever made.

Marketplace monopoly is the problem. When the majority of access is controlled by a handful of ISP's there is no option to simply "Go somewhere else". It's a moot point tho, as the money flows, so shall the votes.

The right-left argument is like leaving a note with "Look on the other side" written on both sides to keep the idiots busy while being gang-raped.

It is probably orders of magnitude easier to intercept and store digital.

Not sure what you mean by closer fit.. you could launch a joomla with only the calendar, Jevents is a decent mature app and joomla 3 is small screen capable. You also get the update infrastructure to manage your security and updates. Joomla gets a hard rap around here, but its not that bad when you work with it for a while. I could launch this from start to dns flop over in around 3 hours.

It takes abnormal to be different. It takes different to make changes. From DNA that didnt quite come out right to someone who has an unstoppable obsession, these are the type things that open new doors. Genius is not a normal person working hard, genius is something different. Of course these people are social misfits, and easily abused, they are not on the same plane, they are by nature, different. And most likely for every person we hear about as genius there are multitudes who are idiots as well as many many who are squashed by the machine. A normal person sees a box and puts things in it, a genius sees a box and fills it with their obsession.

The question is never "Will they?". The question is always, "Can they?" And more to the point.. "Can they and still get away with it profitably?" So when you are puzzling over some abhorrent possibility, run it through that filter and you will invariably find your answer.

I quit working for "The Man" 5 years ago and now work for myself. I find that I work twice the hours, at least, but I also take regular learning tangents and am free to follow them wherever I wish, and often times they add to my general knowledge and allow me to offer different, new services and such. I find that I do a lot of "me" learning in-between projects and it not only helps me grow but also allows me to clear my head for the next project.

I think it was Stalin who erased people from existence. paintings, books, tax roles, every mention in every place. Very thorough, and very very paranoid.

So apart from the blatant Constitutional shredding, which in and of itself should be plenty to call BS on the whole thing, how about the simple ROI of the whole damn thing? How much money, resources and man-hours have we shit away for practically no public good or protection? I would guess in the billions and growing. This whole ordeal is nothing but a power grab for control. It has nothing to do with safety and everything to do with pure unadulterated power.

Aaaand there goes your search ranking