Literally is mate. Try looking it up. It’s well documented.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/know-your-mind/201407/cannabis-really-can-cause-paranoia

Irony lies dying on the floor.

It would seem to be the case, yes.

A known side effect of taking a large amount of cannabis is paranoia. He smoked a LOT, so although it’s not definite, it’s a bit of a smoking gun.

I wrote it for a friend’s company, and I don’t think he ever did anything much with it. I don’t remember the exact details, but it was something like this for 200 pages:

<1 - 100> [101 - 110] 111 … 120 [121 - 131] <131 - 200>

Basically 3 levels of page selection, where you can pick one in a range of 10, skip forward or back by 10 or go to a new section of pages. It was something like that anyway. The total number of pages defined the ranges. It was all very clever and worked well for moving around large numbers of pages.

Maybe you shouldn’t fart out uninformed bullshit about things you know nothing about, dipshit?

Well, he’s dead now. He hid it well. The first thing we knew about it was when he disappeared, leaving an insane paranoid note. But hey, I’m sure you lot all know better than me about what happened.

Made my brother in law depressed and paranoid so he did dumb things.

Don’t know why you are being downvoted. Smoking huge quantities of weed really does fuck up your head.

Note that this survey was pre-COVID and pre-Trump. The public are now probably wrong about absolutely everything.

I invented a pagination system for web pages that allowed easy navigation with only a few clicks to get to the page you want, whether it was 3 pages or 3000 pages.

I’m really surprised no one else has invented it because it was so much better than anything else I’ve seen.

Hard to believe that he’s gay.

It’s better to rule in hell than serve in heaven. Now let’s see how fast we can turn earth into hell.

Incitement to commit murder is a crime.

Yes.

Yes, I do see your point. I think part of the problem is that old farts like myself started with it 3 decades ago, when it really was only for the ultra-nerds. It really was something only enthusiasts would ever consider using, and totally unsuitable for “normal” people. The change into something that can be used by everyone has been slow, but relentless. At some point it will be something that everyone can use, but I really don’t think it’s there yet. Every year as accessibility improves it moves into the reach of more people, but at the moment you do still need to invest time in converting to it from Windows.

Which brings me to another point - Linux is not a Free version of Windows. A lot of people seem to think that it should be like Windows, but gnarly old nerds like me like it precisely because it is very different from Windows. This is both its weakness and its strength. I like it because there is less hand-holding than with Windows, but most people probably don’t want to use an OS that you can essentially brick with one command on the command line. To me it’s power, but to most (normal) people it’s danger. There has to be a trade-off between complete control of your PC to the point where you can destroy it, and your PC telling you what you can and can’t do to the extent that Windows does.

I think at some point there will be a distribution that manages to get a balance of freedom and hand-holding that a majority of people find accceptable, but at the moment you do have to put effort and time into not only learning new things, but changing the way you see your PC. If someone complains that it isn’t easy enough, the only solution at present is for them to not use it. Is it a good situation? No, but that’s the way it is.

I don’t really know what else to say. Linux is what it is. It isn’t perfect, but then again what is? Some people like it, some people don’t. No one is forcing anyone to use it, so use it or ignore it. It will always need more effort on the part of the user to get going with it, but some people find this rewarding. Some don’t, in which case it’s not for them. Accessibility is a real problem, and one which people are working on, but there is no end game with Linux - no inherent need to be used and loved by everyone. It is already far better than it used to be in terms of accessability and it will only get better, but in the meantime, it’s not for everyone.

Linux is not for everyone. If you don’t like it, don’t use it. The terminal is used so much because it’s often the quickest way of doing things - instructions in WIndows are like “click on that icon, scroll down to this and choose that, then select that tab…” but with a terminal it’s like “copy and paste this into a terminal”. It’s a powerful and useful tool. There are distros like Ubuntu which try to avoid doing terminally stuff, but it’s just so useful it’s difficult not to use it.

And they haven’t got any righter since that headline was written in 2013.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-public-wrong-about-nearly-everything-survey-shows-8697821.html

He’s got a bit confused. It’s the birth rate, and it’s not a percent. You need a birth rate of 2.1 per person to keep the population steady. It’s nothing to do with fertility, but more personal choices, like when a couple look around and think “nah, I’m not going to subject my kids to these fucking idiots”.