Sleipnir

My suggestions: 1) Create a forum dedicated for random comments and trolling. Moderators can move off-topic talks/discussions to that forum. 2) Relaxed the rules in the forums. Moderation is the key whether it swearing (f-word, a-word), posting gifs, trolling (this will always exist in some degree from mild to extreme), insulting language (cons, libs, dips, greenies and so on). Of course some things will always be a firm no such as porn posting, advertising other forums, libel, racism, etc. @ Greg, the question is....are you focusing on what you want more of or what you want less of?

A guy (acting like a thug) got shot for physically assaulting and ignoring a police officer. Thus sparked a nationwide protest against that police officer. .......... .......... .......... Yeah that makes perfect sense to me

Oh come on, it not like the Liberals haven't done the same thing in the past.

In my opinion, a terrorist/terrorism is when an individual(s) used violence that can cause either irreparable harm or death to further one's own social-political agenda.

"Is the internet safe anymore?" Since when was it ever safe? ----- Edit: missing a word.

What mods? There's only you and Anthony.

Which is irrelevant as to whether or not I know something about a topic.

Yeah the problem is that the analysts are not taking couple things in consideration. 1) We're in a global recession. Were the Mac, previous windows and others introduced during such recession? 2) The selling of Mac, Linux, Windows and other operating system are either stagnating or in decline. 3) There is an increasing emphasize for tablet and phablet (or whatever the slang is) over PC in recent years. In any case when you introduce a new operating system, chances are the first round will be full of imperfection and complaints. That saying, this is why there are occasional major updates are assigned to the system over time

And you know this how?

Wouldn't the cop charge you with obstruction of justice for not following his orders?

Can you provide proof that windows 8 hurt the entire PC industry? Or was that sarcasm?

The charm bar is also the new start button. Honestly in windows 7 I hardly use the start-up button, maybe 3-5 times a month.

Wow Fox News, CNN and the likes are horrible at reporting events from Friday afternoon /)_- They didn't even know what they were doing!

Yeah I supposed that would justify revoking the Miranda's right... I heard on the news that the suspect sustain injuries to his throat and he may not be able to speak again. I wonder how revoking the Miranda Right would work with that.

I would say both. It doesn't consume so much power, it last longer without my laptop being plugged in. Booting up/shutting down are much quicker (few seconds versus a minute or so in windows 7) even loading documents seems faster than with windows 7. My mom told me that noticed that surfing the web is much smoother - I didn't notice that but she still uses windows 7. In another feature, you can split the computer screen into 2 parts to work on two different things, or up to 6 parts if you download a particular app. Long story short, I personally find it to be more functional and efficiently more operable than in windows 7. However, I can suggest few improvements that could be made - perhaps windows 8.1 and 8.2 will address them. And yes, it looks better instead of the usual small symbol shortcut on the windows 7 screen. You can always customized your metro screen background (solid colour versus design colour) and tiles if you're not happy with it. If you still have doubt, there is always a free 30-day trial in which you can try windows 8 for that period of time.

What I don't understand is why is the Miranda Right being revoked for the bomber? I thought the only exception in which the Miranda Right can be revoke would be if there was a continual threat. Yet the officials last night did say the hunt is over, doesn't that mean the threat is over? I guess I would be committing a slippery-slope fallacy in suggest where you draw the line to revoke these things... Edit: It not as if he travelled from Russia to commit these crimes, he is an American citizen after all.

lol yes they are. I'm using windows 8 and this new operating system is such an improvement from windows 7 in so many ways that I fail to understand the logic of these complaints. Of course there will be low interest in a new operating system, after all we're in a recession that has not been seen on this magnitude since 1930. Even chromebook and Mac are taking a tumble or stagnating in sales these days.

When seeing the title of this post, I thought it was going to be about the possibility of terrorists targeting pipelines to cause social, environmental and economic disruption.

For those who are complaining about windows 8, have you ever actually tried it?

1) Well technically the term 'French' and 'Aboriginals' are not race-based. 2) Hate speech? Implying all French are bigots, can indeed, be called hate speech.

Yes because the image is rather gruesome. I just noticed something, if you look at the position of the bag and then the fence that ended up being wrapped around the mail box after the explosion. Does it seem that perhaps the bag didn't have a bomb?

The FBI found something else suspicious