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@WorldEngineer It's extremely bad, and what seems to constantly fail to reach international media is the fact that almost all austerity measures target lower income tax payers. What also seems to escape international media is the fact that the widely reported and seemingly low retirement age requirements only apply to very specific categories of workers, like workers in biochemical plants and other hazardous environments, or mothers of three or more children.

Civil unrest is at a critical point, last night was exceptionally bad. Other than that, I'd prefer not to discuss the debt crisis or anything related, one of the reasons of me being very active on P.SE these past few months was to escape reality.

@WorldEngineer Don't worry about it, it's more that if I start talking you won't be able to shut me up... The way I see it, it's mostly an internal snafu, blaming the world for it is dishonest. Daily life hasn't changed drastically for most, but unemployment rates are raising extremely fast. Where I work we secured a vc fund just before the crisis became evident (in financial circles), so we are doing better than most. Will shut up now. :P

I absolutely hate it when I see comments saying a post is bad, but no downvotes. If you feel a question / answer is bad, and don't have anything constructive to say, just downvote, that way you make it a lot easier for everyone to find bad posts and improve them... Comments are useless if you are not asking for clarifications or suggesting improvements. Use the voting system, please, you may think you are being nice, but you are not. [/rant]

@YannisRizos Hats-off for surviving testing times and still being cool. Democracy do has its failures. Won't discuss further on this chat. But would take time-off for a huge discussion if you are seriously interested. Would be back tomorrow.

@WorldEngineer There is nothing negative about down votes, imho. Part of the review system, nothing more... Every downvote helps get more attention to poor posts, so we can improve them. If people don't bother improving posts, that's a different issue. But many do, and we can help them find bad posts easier. Constructive comments are great, but still are only addressed to the OP, downvotes are addressed to the community.

Anyways, was venting a bit because I saw a few comments that made absolutely no sense to me.

@WorldEngineer Hmm, different viewpoints or not, downvotes as a signal that a post is in need of help work wonders. Not saying constructive comments don't, but they don't reach the wider community as easily.

@WorldEngineer You have access to the same review page as I do ;p

@WorldEngineer I used to work exclusively on linux, up until a couple of years ago when I switched to windows. Most of my tools work on any os, so it's a bit meh for me. But I have no idea if linux/windows will play nicely on a mac.

"Most of my tools work on any os" -> "eclipse sucks on any platform"

@WorldEngineer I know how to use it, and it's the best IDE available for my needs. Sadly, that doesn't make it great... Just the least evil.