You want to send a message? How about donating generously, but changing how the funds are allocated so that the developers who are offering nice Linux support recieve more of your money than the lazy ones that you feel aren't doing enough. You can specify exactly who gets money and how much they get.

I'm pretty sure (though I wasn't around then so it is hard to be sure) that the attitude in the 80's was more, we-are-going-build-huge-weapons-and-stuff-so-we-are-number-one! The attitude I was trying to advocate was yea-they-are-doing-cool-stuff-maybe-we-should-try-doing-more-cool-stuff-too! The differences are pretty large, though I can see how you'd get confused.....

.... and to be honest *I* care about things besides money so your statement about "no one cares about anything except money" is false.

As an American I wish the Russians luck and hope they actually do this and succeed. I hope that if they successfully do this it may motivate the powers-that-be over here to emphasize science a little more than they have been. And even if America doesn't take the hint and start emphasizing science again it would be a freaking moon base! :) That is neat no matter who is doing it.

I've bought and planted poppy seeds.... Not illegal....

Drug laws aren't enforced fairly. Someone who doesn't have white skin and uses drugs is more likely to end up being prosecuted than someone who is white and uses drugs.

It kind of sounds like the judge is *knowingly helping the terrorists*. Doesn't it? Don't we have a law to deal with people who do that?

I assumed you meant what you wrote. Maybe that was a bad assumption.

Also, you might want to be careful about trying to come up with general tendencies of groups of people. Feeling that certain groups have certain tendencies has been the root cause of a lot of bad.

Additionally, that film isn't really critical of Mormons. Closer to ridiculous fiction with Mormons as the antigonists.

You said,

Because you said, "Mormons voted, based on their religion, to ban homosexual marriage" I wanted to point out that many Mormons opposed prop8. Also, you said, "This ban applies to people who do not follow that religion" so I wanted to point out that the ban also applies to some people who do follow the religion.

Also, I am a little curious why you feel the Mormons are so responsible for proposition 8. I heard somewhere that Mormons make up about 2% of California. I've also heard around 4%-10% of California is homosexual. How is it possible in your opinion that 2% of the state is able to exercise so much control? My personal opinion is that you have a *greatly* exeragated opinion of the impact the Mormons made with prop8.

They violated the law in not properly reporting non-monetary contributions in support of Proposition 8 and paid a $5500 fine. Mind sharing which advertising that was paid for by the Mormons was so bigoted?

Are you seriously trying to argue that religious people shouldn't be allowed to vote because it isn't fair for the non-religous people? Or are you only suggesting that religious people that disagree with *you* should be baned from voting? Or maybe you are suggesting that people should only be able to vote for a law if they can somehow prove it may effect them. I'm not quite sure which of these (or perhaps something else entirely) you'd like to see implemented.

Are you suggesting that no Mormons are homosexual? Or are you suggesting that no Mormons voted against prop8? I assure you that if you are both suggestions are false.

In what way exactly has religion been forced onto homosexual couples in California and how did the Mormons single-handedly force it on them?

Eh, as those critics are still there I wouldn't really call the "silenced". Also, it wasn't criticism that was targetted, but publishing a pages from a Church manual online. I imagine if they'd instead tried to summarize the content in their own words there wouldn't have been a lawsuit. Disclaimer: IAAM

I wanted to mod you up, but you didn't have a link for those that missed the whole funny affair.... http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/

Yes, great idea! Let's create a world government with enough power to: - measure the best-ness of every single human - decide who gets to have children. Not the best? Sorry, no kids for you dumb-ass! And I'm sure this entire process would be done fairly and transparently and wouldn't favor the people in power.... - the power to enforce its decisions from people who may not want to follow the rules and may be trying to hide pregnancies. That means somehow getting all females on the planet to take periodic pregnancy tests (probably a blood test so the results can't be faked) and aborting the preganancies of anyone who is pregnant without permission. Great world you envision.... I'd personally rather give up meat....