I don't see how this is possible, because I'm pretty sure the PPACA originated in the House (it got voted on and passed first). The Senate put up a different version, and it got resolved in the reconciliation committee, and the final law passed both houses.

While on the surface, it may seem like this, the implications are much more serious (for Key Siever).

Linus is the final word in what gets incorporated into the linux kernel. If you can't submit updates to the kernel, you cease to exist in the kernel developer community. Siever is the lead developer for systemd. If systemd needs a kernel modification, and it can't get it approved, that whole project sits dead in the water, until some competing project replaces it. Siever is paid for his development work by Red Hat; we'll see for how much longer.

Pretty ironic, considering NASA safety reviews couldn't prevent either a Challenger or Columbia operational failure.

The point of exploring the stars isn't reducing/managing surplus population or broadening humanity's knowledge. Its to ensure the existence of the human species even from planetary or galactic disaster. Right now, we cannot perpetuate a sufficient number of mating pairs in a non-earthlike biome indefinitely. Earth and humans die in the first nuclear war, sufficiently large asteroid sized impacts, local supernova or intractable pollution.

1) Brandon Eich wasn't executed.
2) Mozilla ensures its financial existence, while Salem Puritanism ceased to be considered a credible religious doctrine.

No, this is a capitalist culture. You exploit the gullible.

The overhead in $15K is not overhead; a huge chunk of it is taxes & the "payroll end" of taxes. If anything, the overhead is a little low.

Yup. And it costs that Ph.D absolutely nothing to make generalizations using data which may be utterly invalid today, post 2006.

I believe the truth is somewhere between four results. Some people will go to college, and become financially successful. Some people today will try to complete their college degrees, in exchange for indentured servitude (to student debt) for most of their working lives. Some people won't go to college, strike it out on their own, and not be financially successful. A few people will skip college, strike it out on their own, and become financially successful. There is no real middle strategy; its just a matter of which choice you will make, and you will have to live with the result. My feeling is that you make the choice that best fits yourself, and have a strategy when it doesn't work out.

The only thing I'm pretty certain about: If you're poor, and can't get a subsidized ride into a very good four year college, you are definitely opting to be a wage slave if you take on a lot of student debt. Very few poor kids are going to take on debt in a profession like doctor or lawyer, and work his way out in his lifetime.

1) There are a lot of detractors of Gnome 3. Everyone is not happy with it.

2) What you don't grasp is what I admire about Canonical/Shuttleworth. What kept Linux (or Ubuntu) from dominating the desktop was an inferior GUI experience to Apple/Windows (and unequal driver support). You could chose Gnome or KDE, both too flawed and two unmotivated to compete for the general (dumb) consumer market, give up and go with some form of LXDE(?), or do what Canonical did. Canonical wanted to go after what it saw was the future, and instead of unsuccessfully negotiating with Gnome & KDE designer councils to implement what Canonical wanted, Canonical took its future into its own hands. Computing hardware was moving to tablets, phones & gear, not desktops, and they wanted a GUI that could bridge both worlds. That's why they went to Unity, and given the problems producing a compositor competitive with DirectX, they went to Wayland, then Mir.

3) Every megalomanic in Unixland operates like a bloodthirsty Bolshevik, and thinks Canonical owes them a living for failure or half a loaf.

...I want a pony, Canonical. Pay up!

Its pretty freaking obvious that Canonical's GUI strategy (Unity/Mir) does not involve depending on Gnome. Since neither Shuttleworth is the richest man on earth, or Canonical isn't making a huge profit, why should they be investing salaries into an ancillary GUI, which isn't even that popular within the industry?

I hope Canonical decides to include Gnome into the 14.04 LTS, but only if the company thinks they can afford to invest resources towards it.

The problem wasn't merely that the geeks had no fucking clue how to maintain security. The problem was that the management had no fucking clue how to properly operate a finance establishment. There is no way a competent financial institution does not become immediately aware that someone is stealing from their "vaults". That's because the financial institution should be validating their assets daily, if not hourly.

Here's the question: Do the major exchanges STILL in operation ALL run basic accounting and bank operation practices? Is the Bitcoin Foundation moving the industry towards enabling functioning "arbitrage" for the bitcoin system? What is the Bitcoin Foundation doing to incorporate real world consumer transactions? Until those three aspects come about, you will not have the necessary stability needed for people and businesses to treat bitcoin as "money".

Lion can run on 32bit machines. Its Mountain Lion, OSX 10.8, that can't.

Are you telling me there are still people doing development on L4 kernels???

And don't bring up HURD, I know they've already given up on it.

Ssshhhhh.... Don't get the crazy man started...