Both sides of thinking are useful. But useful does not automatically translate into correct.

All of my office machines have public IPv6 addresses. It's quite awesome. Makes so much stuff so much easier.

Well, the "theory of evolution" does exist, and would include natural selection as one of the mechanisms to shape change. There's also simple drift.

It's still valid to refer to it all as the "theory of evolution", or "evolutionary theory", or some such.

Since it's also observable, it's also a fact.

Evolution is still a theory. And a fact. The terms aren't exclusive.

Modern physics (astro included) is about formulating theories that CAN be tested. Not sure why you'd think otherwise. String theory too.

Thanks for proving the point with "as science finds out more." You see, nothing else has been shown to do that. Yeah, science might be wrong. But it's the only human endeavor to obtaining knowledge that actually gets better. The alternatives seem don't have that track record.

Not really. He said we're 200 years into a 1000 year cycle of reversal. That means we're 1/5th through it. So they would point 1/5th of the way to south.

If the PP is even correct, which I am neither arguing for or against.

I understand where you're coming from. So I'll question it.

Science helps us determine that something will cause issues for everybody in the country down the road. The country is tasked with protecting the people within it. Science has determined a threat, so the government is tasked with helping eliminate, reduce, or avoid it.

Okay, done.

MS SQL is a better product, all around. Both as an engine, and the management UI. The integrated security features, integrated XML support, and of course the GIS functions.

But it costs money.

Cost benefit, dude. That's all there is to it.

Global warming is trivially demonstrated. The globe used to be cooler. Now it is warmer. That was easy.

And there's tons of Contact synching apps in the market. Pick one.

Or just using IMAP. Which works just fine.

Also opens up the possibility to optimize for specific ARM processors at runtime, or install time.

Yeah. As has been said, the community promise has nothing to do with Novell.

"but the extra time required to really get a FreeBSD box tuned will come back in spades through performance and stability metrics. You'll get more out of the hardware, be that virtual or physical, than you will on a generic Linux binary installation.'"

Prove it.