To bring science back in the fold of the mainstream society, we must view the posts various scientists hold as something that commands respect. Simply put, if you can make a scientists feel as if they and their work were important, then the problem will solve itself.

Currently, the dynamic is far from this simple, idealized version of reality. Right now most academic and intellectual endeavors are met with apathy, if they are lucky. Those individuals actually pursuing these fields are met with far worse circumstances as they navigate through their younger years. The lack of respect for intellectuals among the lay people has bred an environment that finds the intellectuals persevering through far more challenges in society than they ever see in school. Until America learns it needs to lift the intellectuals on their shoulders instead of keeping them on the soles of their shoes, I feel we may never see a real change.

This is an easy one.

The only person to ever see my phone and know what it was just happened to be another G1 owner. Not another soul knew in nearly a year now. Instead I was met with, "What is that?"

From the pictures in the article, it looks great for a coffee table keepsake. I cannot speak for your homes clientele, but this will be a wonderful thing guests will enjoy while getting to know me a little better in the process.

Or just throw it on the throne and enjoy.

I am certainly in the minority here, but I cannot be the only one who does not want there whole social network knowing so much about them. Call me old-fashioned I suppose... but I much rather be a mystery than a well-read novel. I just cant help but think about how many people in business will be bit in the ass by things posted online! You know HR depts. look at these things if they can. If they have a FB dev account in IT somewhere, then maybe the phone interview can get replaced by a FB profile browsing. ;)

Oversimplification explains nothing. Let's apply your same argument to human reproduction:

Woman A meets Man B and have sex.

Nine months later, Woman A has a child.

I really learned a lot from that description! Who cares about the semantics involved between the act of sex and childs birth? You suggest that the means to the end are irrelevant by completely neglecting to mention the oft-complicated measures the bill will/does lay out.

Ummm... it has been over 100 degrees here for a week already. We more than make up for our lack of heating in the winter with all the cooling we do in the summer. During the months of June, July and August, my electric bill is triple (or more) the cost of a winter month.

You lost a few posts ago. Give up.

He is just saying you are batshit insane.

I agree. +1 Foe.

Excuse me for not being intimately familiar with the comings and goings of the Firefox developers. I am not trotting around anything... why are you assuming I follow the FF development as closely as you? I don't! I just want things to work. Clearly, you are far more familiar with the FF development team than I am. Further, you are certainly acting much like the fanboys you put down just one post before. Admittedly, you have far better information and insight than a fanboy, but your tact(or lack thereof) is atrocious.

Thank you for the information and clarity about the memory leak, at least so far as Ben and his reply goes. In the future, your message may be better received if you weren't... how do you say... a prick.

Oh! right, right... it was the fanboys! What was I thinking.

As for how the developers reacted... it was fine, I supposed. The problem was it took them a LONG time to react.

I am not terribly interested in your further replies, but if you feel it contributes to the overall thread, please feel free. We can agree to disagree.

I said if.

This is a new build on a new version of Gecko. Considering this, I find my 'if' to be valid.

I should have clarified, perhaps. That is a personal choice of mine to tell people to use Chrome instead of Firefox because Firefox has done nothing but let me down since v1.5... Most people have alright experiences with Firefox, but mine have been far from pleasant. Sticking out in my mind is their ignoring and dismissing the huge memory leak issues in versions prior to 3.0. Presently, I have very frustrating issues when reloading sessions, but luckily I have tempered those by using Chrome side-by-side.

If Firefox 3.5 ends up rendering differently than Firefox Next and I will be pissed. The amount of browser to develop has ballooned in recent years and have fractioned development lines will not help one bit. For those wanting to say, "Just stop supporting it," well, it is just is not that easy is it? IE6 still has about the same market share as all FF versions combined on nearly all the sites I run. If Firefox 3.5 is left behind, it will continued to be used at a decent clip for several more years, making it one more PITA.... not to mention one more reason to recommend Chrome over FF.

...and have managed to steer clear of girls since. Whew! That was intense.

As many here can attest, it only takes one bad boss to make working your conditions analogous to hell on Earth. I would argue that in the worst cases, your setup would be welcomed on a daily basis if got away from their boss that is not worth the dirt they walk on.

I cannot figure out how this fits into his seemingly insatiable appetite for populism. Maybe that is the silver lining?

The cynic in me can draw a nasty conclusions from this stance, but even that is to Orwellian for me. I was not worried about this legislation under Bush because he implemented it the best of intentions, all-things-considered(Bush is not inherited evil, despite the efforts of many to prove that is so). The abuse of programs like this come from those who inherit the power after they are established and rarely by those who establish it.