Here's an interesting rebuttal.

http://warp.povusers.org/OpenLetters/ResponseToTorvalds.html

Don't fight it. Just give in to the temptation, set aside three hours, click through all 93 pages, and enjoy it. You'll find that it was time better spent than whatever it was you were planning to...

Why would you start a thread in the Geek's Lounge and then say this? I mean what's the point of starting a thread if you don't want other peoples' opinions?

Five down votes on this one? Seems a bit extreme. As Best Jew points out, probably not the best forum to post on with this question, but it's still a reasonable question. But not knowing you and...

You're right. It's not going to work. I'll follow my own advice.

So those are the three reasons, eh? No blame goes out to anybody but us? It, like everything else in the world, is all our fault. Is it even remotely possible that al Qaeda and the Taliban had...

Putting Hicks in Gitmo was major overkill, no argument there. Everything I've seen about him shows he was extremely low level and a pretty confused guy who wasn't all that sure about why he was...

Don't kid yourself. It wasn't directed at one person. You posted it in a place where everyone could see it. It was directed at all of us. There are twenty million things you could have posted if...

Anyone who would cheer on 9/11 is just a scumbag, plain and simple. kanineplus simply isn't worth dealing with/debating under any circumstances after that. You're going to say that and dare to...

It's the lack of choice that bugs me. It takes a few Service Packs before an Operating System gets the kinks out, and it takes time. Vista was pretty new at the time, so it was buggy, and some of...

My personal worst horror story regarding bundling, and it's a very common horror story, is the bundling of my laptop with Vista Home when I bought it two or three years ago. Vista was new, I didn't...

What causes people to not be able to add and subtract by the time they graduate from high school? That's a hell of a good thread in its own right! My philosophy is "teach it anyway". SOME of them...

Aia, I appreciate the clarification. Thank you. To further clarify on my end, one has every right, moral and legal, not to vote. So one has every right, as a citizen, to choose not to vote and...

Now THAT's a bad idea. FORCING you to vote doesn't make for a more informed public. Folks who don't want to vote SHOULDN'T vote, and I'm glad they don't. If the Australians are anything like a lot...

Yes, this is the one that bugged me originally. It sure seemed like you were saying I either had an agenda, was an acolyte, had malice, etc. I have reread your original posts, as you suggested. ...

Pot calling the kettle black. You're one of the most self-righteous, judgmental people I've ever come across, completely confident in the rightness of every opinion you express. It bugs you when...

I'm speculating somewhat, but also talking from my experiences from talking to people/listening to people. I have some respect for people who have thought it over and purposefully decide to not vote...

Gotta agree with you on this one. Checks and balances are useless without an informed population that participates. If you can't be bothered to make an attempt to be informed and vote, don't bitch...

1988 Presidential debate on SNL. Phil Hartman as Jack Kemp on how to balance the budget by giving 110%.

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/87/87kdebate.phtml

As a side note, what's the deal with the "Banned" title. I've seen this before. Is this a title that Josh2 selected for himself or was he actually banned from Daniweb and it's automated? And if...

The bashing is understandable, IMO. People need to vent. In my experience, most peoples' main beefs with Microsoft are the monopolies/anti-trust/bundling issues, which all boil down to people...

I liked the essay. +rep. Some good points.

The reason we don't understand how our own parliamentary system works is because we don't have one.

Teachers have every right to confiscate cell phones. They are a disruption in the classroom. Should a student be berated for using one? Probably not. A simple confiscation will usually suffice. ...

The issue has nothing to do with technology. The trigger for both of these suicides was that the students felt somehow mortified for being scolded for breaking a school rule. It's coincidental that...

I don't know whether programmers are stoners, but I feel pretty confident that successful ones aren't stoned WHILE programming. It takes too much concentration and attention to detail, and it's hard...

I just realized that I missed the joke entirely. I thought someone was swearing in leet.



I knew people laughed at you and ignored you for posting leet, but I didn't know it was against the...

God's honest truth is I can't read leet. Is there something dirty in this thread? I'm assuming not because of the wink, but truth be told, you could probably call me every name in the book and I'd...

If you are looking for wisdom, inspiration, characters as role models who toil with the big moral issues about how to live life, here's a few...

Mississippi Burning
A Time To Kill
Angels With...

"Enter" key for me. I don't think it's because I use it so much, but I just use it more exuberantly. Every time I hit it, I crash down on it like "There, I'm DONE!".

Try it out without making it official for a while. Say it's your nickname or something. Just say "Hi, I'm Julian", then in the rare cases where someone asks questions, say that it's a nickname and...

Why don't you just go talk to her if you want to? Why wait until years into the future so you can shake hands? If you want to thank her, thank her. Ask her if she wants to study for the final with...

Native US-English.

I'm a native English speaker and I've always used the two words interchangeably, as in "I am jealous that you have a nice car and I don't." Apparently I need to replace "jealous" with "envious".
...

There is a PHP forum:

http://www.daniweb.com/forums/forum17.html

and a Virus/Worm/Malware forum:

http://www.daniweb.com/forums/forum64.html

and a database forum:

You have two boys and six girls in your group. You're generalizing way too much. If anything, the fact that girls outnumber boys by a 3 to 1 margin goes against your idea that girls are afraid of ...

First, separate the balls into three groups of three. Pick two of the three groups. Put one of the groups of three on one side of the scale and another group of three on the other side. Weigh...

The original problem states that there is one ball that is heavier.

Cool problem. You can do it in two weighings.

Edit - I explained how, but after thinking about it, I took down the explanation in case other people want to puzzle over it themselves.

As a...

That at least takes skill. Is anyone any better than anyone else at Rock-Paper-Scissors? And did this event really happen or is it a well-crafted cut and paste of other footage? I can't see that...