javs42

Don't get caught in the desire to "judge back". If anything you stoop to Stallman's level. It's perfectly fine to be critical, but at the end of the day, who cares if Stallman doesn't like wearing a tie? If you don't either, cool. If you do, that's cool too.

You pan Keynesian economics as misguided, and while I'd agree that ramping up public spending is not the solution everytime, clearly austerity is not leading to the "investor confidence" that would spur growth in the periphery. The truth is, no approach is going to work in every situation, but it's almost foolish to say austerity was the best approach to the Eurocrisis.

Of course there are complications when you're dealing with a common currency, but the budget constraints and subsequent skyrocketing of debt hasn't alleviated the situation. If anything its burdened the finances of the periphery with an unbelievable amount of default risk, which if I understand austerity economics correctly, that is exactly what it's meant to avoid via boosting investor confidence. Odd how even though results were different, people still believe it's a good solution to the Eurozone's woes.

Increasingly, I'm scared this is the prospect faced by youth in the US. There is no doubt the US is in a relatively sounder position than Europe, but the past few years of recent grads not being able to find work has left a bleak prospect in our minds about future work even when the economy recovers.

Unfortunately there is still debate about the benefit/drawbacks of austerity, but if Europe is any indication, it is just degrading the whole situation. What's keeping Europe away from the edge or from a turn to prosperity is the hard-nosed devotion to austerity.

Yeah, OS X is still there for developer needs, but it's taken a step back from the uber power usability (aka, your example). At the end of the day, as long as you use an OS and software that meets your needs, use it.

:3 that's going to be a lot of fun to set up. Enjoy that!