The Extra-Solar Union of Systems Archive

I'm beginning to think that Mek might be a sadist. He proposes three scenarios which, if not destroying the nation as a whole, will at best see a fair number of people die, and he congratulates me for each.

Alright then...

I don't 'hate' Microsoft, I just don't like Vista. I don't like the way it does things. It isn't an irrational fanboyish thing (I quite liked using XP, it just had flaws of a different nature, and I'm an Xbox 360 owner!), for if Windows 7 turns out superior for my needs than Ubuntu, for example, I'l...

WHICH IS WHAT YOU SHOULD BE USING ANYWAY. Alas, due to circumstances outside of my control I'm using a borrowed laptop. With WINDOWS VISTA installed. Yeah. If you thought using IE was the worst of my problems, you clearly thought wrong. Ordinarily, my desktop PC utilises Ubuntu for most of my busyn...

There was something of a brawl in the House of Commons as the debates surrounding Bretonian neutrality reached their pinnacle. Finally, when the filibustering was seemingly over, and the Speaker managed to calm down the hundreds of politicians who all had vehement opinions on the subject, a vote was...