Well put, and thank you for taking the time to share your very apropos views. Not everyone on the interwebs is a brainless idiot :)

Ditto.

Good point. I'm not some crazy right wing gun nut (in fact I tend to be mostly liberal in my views), but I really believe in the right to bear arms. Not for the dumb reasons most right wing nuts spout (seriously, this ain't muskets vs. muskets anymore, if the ATF wants to kick down your door, they're gonna succeed one…

Nice, I lol'd.

We'll have to agree to disagree. I personally prefer Eclipse over Visual Studio, precisely because of how easy it is to extend. I used Visual Studio all through college, so I am rather familiar and I will admit it is an easy one click solution to development.

The power of the Dark Side? Seriously? What's dark about a prepackaged set of toys that work well together so long as all you want to do is be able to color inside the lines?

I couldn't disagree more. I have an account with both Amazon and Google Music and I most definitely prefer Google Music over Amazon's Cloud Drive/Player. Not sure how they are doing it, but underground hip hop albums I've been looking for on both Amazon and iTunes to no avail are right there alongside the pop hits in…

I would assume because other distros are becoming more and more popular (personally I prefer Linux Mint).