Don't be evil?

Portal is not only proprietary, but requires a proprietary OS. I know schools also often require proprietary academic software, but it strikes me as even more wrong to mandate non-free software for a mere game.

What might that message board /b/?

I spent my time and money buying real MIPS and SPARC hardware for running IRIX and Solaris, instead of spending it at University. That and reading documentation and watching MIT OCW and UCB Webcast.

Printing more than 1000 copies? Your best value will probably be to go to a real printer and get it offset printed. Laser and inkjet are both too expensive.

I've worked on weapons systems in the past, and I believe that anyone doing this kind of work (and not sabotaging it) for the US military industrial complex, is complicit in the most brutal and powerful empire in the history of humanity.

I am not a pacifist; I am not opposed to building weapons. I would gladly build them to defend freedom and democracy in the form of a workers-self managed society free of the state, religion, capitalism, and other unjust forms of hierarchy.

However, unless you are some kind of underground freedom-fighter, the only way to get paid building weapons in the US is to build them for the dominant state-corporate powers.

Timorese, Palestinians, Iraqis, Americans, Afghans, Pakistanis, Colombians, Kurds, Yemenese, Syrians, Somalians, Haitians, Liberians, Yugoslavians, Sudanese, Bosnians, Kuwaitis, Panamanians, Libyans, Iranians, Bolivians, and etc many more that I can't remember off the top of my head, have all been killed within my lifetime by US troops or US client states, all in for the cause of corporate-capitalist power.

This empire is unmatched in history, and it is the duty of all ethical working class people to resist!

*expert....I never claimed to be one regarding proofreading.

The wisdom of crowds works when everyone is looking in the same area for the answer to a question with a somewhat fuzzy answer. The group average can often be better than any single expect that attempts to calculate it. However this is a poor approach when the crowd isn't even looking in the right place. Simple majority decision making would be disastrous for many of the big decisions organizations make. The pubic is massively ignorant on scientific issues and continues to be plagued by religious, corporate, and state imposed falsehoods. Freeing people from these shackles and providing full education for all could allow us to crowd source more important decisions and lead to a more efficient and just society.

If we had sane copyright laws, most of the issues would already be in the public domain. However, I still see this is a major gesture of support for free culture.

I only buy books and music from authors who publish for free online.

Maybe I should extend the same policy towards zines?