My point is that once upon a time, slashdotters were interested in technology. Now all too many think it is the enemy.

Well, I'm glad it was politely! I was being a little bit sarcastic in anticipation of the regulations iz all evil crowd chiming in. I agree that some regulation is simply needed in a modern society, or else we'll have weird stuff like people selling mortgages to people who should never ever have them. Fortunately, that'll never happen.

One of the biggest problems the south had was their immense distrust of government, and belief that lack of governance = good outcome.

We still see a lot of that today, and people who do actually think that most any form of regulation is socialism, or communism, or the guvmint tellng them what to do.

By the way, in the Great War of Northern Agression in the US in the 1860's, the North, which was a bastion of socialist type controls on the people, had settled on one standard, (there were some narrow gauge railroads in use yet though) while in the less regulated South, there was apparently a lot of different approaches to railroads, resulting in a lot of unloading and reloading as shipping was a pretty complicated affair,

Yup, this. What we saw was the unholy kludge of NTSC video television, which was kept for years, so that old early 1950's TVs would still be compatible, being sacrificed. Gramma could still watch the first TV she ever bought - if it wasn't in the landfill, a victim of proton decay.

NTSC television is the counter example to all this, an illustration of what happens when you force a standard on people long past the time it should ever have been used.

Slashdotters are becoming the The Crazy Uncle of technology, you know, the guy who brags about not having an email address, and is still really pissed that they took tetraethyl lead out of gasoline. And don't get him started on that damned zip code business. They just picked a little bit later in time to demand that technology had to be frozen.

No one can keep up with her changes.

Before Common Era. If'n you don't like that, well sue me, because it is the right term, and only in your world is it a Leeeeeeeeburul thing.

I know a lot of conservatives of other religions thzt wonder exactly why the birth of some Jewish Rabbi controls their dating system. So tough

Where on earth do you get off on telling me that fundies don't believe in a young earth? I was raised in large part by young earth Christian fundamentalist creationists, and I can tell you that they do indeed believe just that.

Why, its even in my bibles....

In my Scofield reference edition, on page 3 it states B.C. 4004 right beside the text.

In my KJV self pronouncing version same thing, 4004 BC.

Nelson KJV concordance - 4004 B.C.

Bishop James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh and primate of Ireland in the 1600's, dated the age of the world, and therefore universe, as having been created on Sunday 23 October 4004 BC, the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the garden on Monday 10 November 4004 BC, as well as other dates that are now held as truth by fundamentalists.

Now of course, that is just dates put in by a human, and not the transcribed word of god, but most respectfully, you are so wrong to think that fundamentalists do not believe that. If you don't believe every word writtien down in the KJV bible, you are no True Scots.....erm.... Fundamentalist Christian.

I lived with that stuff.

Bu't its not wireless. Wireless is awesome, and I bet it you asked 10 normal people, they'd tell you its faster than wired. Because, like its Wireless!!!

No, she just hates science.

Thanks for playing, mabe some Cialis will help next time.

FIrst it was the preservative - they took the preservative out - No change

Then it was the vaccine itself - So0 thte stupid fucks stopped vaccinating their children - No change.

Thn they listened to a porno princess whoo's qualifications were? none.

Then it was proven that the "researcher was operating in tandem with a lawyer to make money off sympathetic juries. A lie based on lies, but they still believe.

Then Autism speaks sychophants started foaming at the mouth when certain people were removed from the "autism spectrum", because they really needed and demanded that rising epidemic.

You are as likely to change these people's minds about vaccines as you are to convince a fundamentalist Christian that the world wasn't created in 4004 b.c.e.

In fact, anti-vaxxers are just the liberal version of creationists.

As more and more people demand wireless access, yet bandwidth is limited, I figures we were going to need to go to something like this eventually. Fiber as absolutely par as possible, then IR to the device. IT woun't be as "handy" as a whole house rf setup, but there are only so many RF channels available, and services like GPS are kind of reluctant to give up a vital resource so we can surf porn.

Ban Tesla sales, and require everyone to use the dealership for everything by force of law, and we will have it made!

They want people to stop saying we are related to them.

Never actually worked with actual scientists have ya? These guys and gals argue about everything, and constantly try to disprove their theories and make fun of each other's hypothese'.

Lot's of stuff is proven wrong all the time. you accept it, and move on. Meanwhile the fundies are busy trying to insist that enough rain fell to cover the entire earth up to and over the tops of the highest mountains, and then mysteriously vanished.

It's why science schoolbooks from 25 years ago are obsolete, but Grandpa's King James version of the bible is just as up to date as it never was.

And this is the difference between science and religion. Since its science, we say, "we were wrong - but its cool, now we can move on to find out the truth..

If this were religion, we'd be fighting tooth and nail, and there would be smear jobs about the scientists liberal tendencies, and stories going around on "How the lord said life was 3.46 billion years old, so it damn well WAS 3.46 million year old fossils.

Teach the controversy brothers!