Weird indeed. American programs on TV are often so annoying when all the "F-words" are bleeped out. Whenever someone strikes his finger with a hammer or whatever you can hear a bleep from three rooms away. Yeah sure now we'll never know what he said and our poor souls are saved from this profanity. It gets even funnier when the mouth is also blurred out.
If i may butt in: Yes. Many times with clients too. Just this week I was in a meeting with project managers and consultants from GE, Honeywell, Prysmian and Schneider electric and it was as if everyone was trying to one up each other on the 'fuck' count.
My employer is both realistic and pretty hard nosed as it happens. It is the customers. And their parents. I'm a teacher.
A story: Try Googling "The Naked Violin" (not violinist) and you should find a page with free MP3 downloads put up by Tasmin Little, a fairly well known (and extremely respectable) soloist in the UK. She decided to do her bit for getting kids to listen to classical music. And gave it a name that guarantees every school and college firewall in the UK will block access. So I continue to point students at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's music library (15GB of free classical mp3s).
PS: The Nouveau driver for Nvidia graphic cards under Linux is improving with each release. For almost all of my activity on my old Xeon desktop, it is fine, and the fonts look OK. I'm prepared to cut the coders a bit of slack in their comments...
