I'm surprised people actually give Oracle money.

Then why don't you say "Math's", since you're cutting out a piece in the middle of the word in order to abbreviate it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Apostrophe_showing_omission

Whoosh!!!

The main difference is that the BSD gives developers the freedom to deprive users and other developers of the fruits of somebody else's labor. Whereas the GPL forces all developers to make sure everybody has the same freedom they had, or else.

The importance of this distinction depends on a developer's priorities. Would you rather play nice with the rest of the developer community and share alike, or would you rather take what you can get without giving back (or encourage others to do this)?

Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

What about those of us who say, "GOVERNMENT IS BAD, CORPORATIONS ARE BAD"... you insensitive clod?

Next time, just use Google: http://www.google.com/search?q=30000+square+meters+in+square+miles

I'm a masochistic anarchist, you insensitive clod!

How about just banning capitalism? That would solve the whole problem.

What do pedophiles and/or rapists look like? Are they a race unto their own? Do they have some soft of discriminating mark on them? If so, why aren't we just rounding people up based on this one trait alone?

Oh... You mean I'm just feeding a troll? Sorry! :-(

Hory clap! Soda in the nose stiiiiiiings!

You don't even have to root the laptop. Assuming you have (had) a vulnerable Web browser, you could write up a little Web app to sniff browser history. Find a good story that will take a while to read or a long YouTube video to use as bait. Write a convincing email about why you have to visit the site, then send it to your old address.

In the background, you can generate thousands of random URLs to see if they've been visited (using the link's color to determine if it matches your custom a:visited color).

Start with MySpace and Facebook.

Log them in a database (via Ajax) for review later on.

It's a shame you don't have ssh or vnc running on your laptop...

I wouldn't mind being president. Being an anarchist, I think I would be able to bring a lot of balance to the US government.

I would do everything I could to bring about actual change for the better by dismantling as much as I could, and letting common people run the rest, without the need for a bloody revolution (one which, by the way, citizens today would almost certainly lose due to the severe imbalance in power, resources, and ambition).

I don't claim to have all the answers. In fact, I don't claim to have any answers. I would lead by not leading. Since I would be doing so little, I wouldn't even take a paycheck. I wouldn't even stay in Washington, DC. I'd do exactly what I'm doing now.

I'd redefine the government drastically with the help of a team of brilliant liberal free-thinkers. They'd do all the work, get all the credit, etc. The end goal would be that the federal government, if it continued to exist at all, would solely act as an aggregator of ideas and resources. It would only ever exist to help and progress; never to punish or repress. The only "crimes" would be actions that damage society (that cause actual harm). Punishment of "crimes" would be left up to the individual communities that were damaged. Of course, I wouldn't define how any of this would work--I would leave that up to the people actually involved in the processes.

Essentially, it would be a peaceful coup, and all power would be given back to "The People". I would be completely up front and honest about all of my intentions while running for office.

I wonder if anybody really, truly cares about freedom anymore.

Democracy/freedom and poverty/hunger are not mutually exclusive issues. I'm sure that, with 1.5 billion people, China can manage to pool enough resources to multi-task and focus on more than one issue at a time.

Everything else you said is really just an attempt at justifying a perceived need for authoritarianism. Please understand one small, simple idea: There is never a need for authoritarianism.

I missed the memo. When was "interesting" made an objective word?