The problem I really see, is that Paul's solutions are all long term and there is a lot of pain involved in getting to his ultimate goal. I like the ultimate goal, but Americans are way too short sighted to look at things that way.

If he eliminates student loans, in the short term a whole lot of people will suffer. In the long term, school will have decreased enrollment and be forced to lower tuition costs in order to attract students.

In the short term, community college enrollment will skyrocket, and a lot of people will graduate from college a lot less in debt than they are now.

And there really is no reason banks can't still offer loans for college to people.

To get the full Linux experience, I think she should create a Fedora Respin, or just go ahead and roll her own Linux distribution. :-) I think Ubuntu is probably the easiest for hardware that requires proprietary drivers. Fedora is another good choice if the hardware has all open source drivers.

Ok, so as a school district you want to teach about creationism alongside evolution. To some that may be fine. The issue I have is who's version of creationism? Why do all these nut jobs always insist on teaching Judeo-Christian creationism stories? What about all the other creationist accounts in other religions? Shouldn't we teach ALL creation stories to be fair and balanced?

Then there is the issue of who should be qualified to teach Judeo-Christian creationism. We're forcing this teaching onto science teachers. Regardless of whether or not they want to teach, they simply are not qualified. In my opinion, the only person really qualified to teach the Judeo-Christian creation story is someone from the religion that created the story. We need a rabbi. Christians just inherited the story from the Jews. Funny part is, most of the rabbis I have spoken to do not take the 7 day creation story literally.

The earth is insanely unpredictable. Any belief that what we do to the planet is the only thing that affects weather and climate is extremely naive. Has the Earth experieced warming in recent decades? Yes it has. Is Man the ONLY reason this is happening. I really really doubt that. This planet has gone from ice ball, to tropical over a number of periods in the 4 billion years the Earth has been around.

Sensationalizing things in the hopes of getting donations for your cause so you can keep getting a paycheck in not the answer.

When people ask me what to do about Global Warming I tell to plant to some trees, since they scrub a lot of CO2 and to pray the Yellowstone Super-volcano doesn't blow up any time soon.

I think the planet will take out our species out long before we can do it ourselves with global warming.

I'm going to guess the exact patents that are being violated are yet to be disclosed.. Kind of funny they won't sue Google directly.

So it was originally supposed to be a 4 volume set. Then he took book 4 and broke it up into two books, making it a 5 volume set. Now, wikipedia shows SEVEN books. Who does this guy think he is, Robert Jordan?

So this is going to be a network of server all sending messages back and forth? Wow! Fidonet is back!

TrueType was written by Apple and given to Microsoft. At the time, Apple was having a huge tiff with Adobe and was trying a printer definition language that could replace Postscript. They made a cross licensing deal with Microsoft. Apple was to provide the font technology and Microsoft was to provide the printer language called TrueImage. In classic Microsoft fashion, TrueImage was delayed significantly and when it did finally see the light of day, it was too late, and Apple ended up licensing Postscript Level 2.

Good point. I love reddit. And they let you make any subreddit you want. Interesting.... Plus it has porn. So, in many ways it is just like subreddit.

The concept of Usenet is awesome. Think about taking every single web forums out there and sticking them all into a client om your desk, and having a single sign in for everything, and you'll understand why Usenet is still superior to web based forums in many ways. You go to ONE PLACE to find the info you want on hobbies, politics, news, etc.

In the 90s, the Usenet FAQs were the best collection of knowledge on the Internet.

Sadly, due to it's open nature, Usenet was also the first to get SPAM. I would love to see someone develop a newer version of Usenet with better security.

That fixes the authentication problem. It doesn't fix the "I want to go to one place to see ubuntuforums.com, fedoraforums.org, theplantedaquarium.com, etc..."

No, no. What I am saying that each forum would maintain an independent front end on their site. They would use something like OpenID for authentication. However all posts would sync to some backend. That backend would allow replies that would sync back to the front end. It would, however be possible for a client of some kind to connect to the back end and give you access to all the different forums that feed into the back end. Sure, it's opt-in for the forums to join, but if it gets momentum behind it, you wouldn't want to be the forum that's NOT in the cooperative. There are already plugins that will sync with Usenet. Problem with Usenet is, it gets a lot of spam, and there is user authentication required to get access to posting on a lot of sites.

Well, it was used the day we opened it to get the 1.2 update. It pulled that down and installed it before I could configure the wifi. In reality, it won't be used that much, but will come in handy if we travel anywhere and needs something to read.

I thought the nook had the best set of features. It's backed by a large bookstore that can negotiate decent ebook pricing. It has wifi and 3G connectivity. It comes with an SD slot for memory expansion. And it also supports PDF and ePub, so you could easily roll your own eBooks or download public domain ones from Google Books.