Some distros are far less buggy then others... IE: I don't have any issues in Arch, but I did with Manjaro (often there was bugs that prevented updates to complete successfully).

They did that in a city I was in, in Florida, but using trucks.. They were poisoning everything to kill mosquitoes/larvae.

There is no way that is true the way it is going with UEFI, secure boot, etc...

Philosophy makes a lot more sense then Theology.

I didn't take it that way, but the news was published in the newsletter.

lol... I wonder if they have less crazy laws in North Korea...

appears to be in its really early phase of development

“make polluters pay to clean up the messes they’ve made,”

While this is a good first step, I would say it's more along the lines of "stop paying big oil to pollute"

> All people holding patents need to be innovating with them, or otherwise, lose them after a short period.

A patent only last 15 or 20 years... copyright is a much bigger issue (copyright protection lasts for the life of the author plus an additional 70 years).