The physical laws, in their observable consequences, have a finite limit of precision.
No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs.
The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part.
You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast.
Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something.
If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the "owner" of the program, that controls the program and through it, exercises power over its users. A nonfree program is a yoke, an instrument of unjust power.
I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.
I think we have arrived at the stage where we are making it too complicated. I know guys who can't play two rounds before running to their teachers.
One should travel as light as possible. I can organize myself to go on a ten-day trip with just hand luggage.
All war presupposes human weakness and seeks to exploit it.
The scent organ was playing a delightfully refreshing Herbal Capriccio - rippling arpeggios of thyme and lavender, of rosemary, basil, myrtle, tarragon; a series of daring modulations through the spice keys into ambergris; and a slow return through sandalwood, camphor, cedar and newmown hay (with occasional subtle touches of discord - a whiff of kidney pudding, the faintest suspicion of pig's dung) back to the simple aromatics with which the piece began. The final blast of thyme died away; there was a round of applause; the lights went up.