Thank you!

For all the bitching people do about politics on this site, they apparently have absolutely no idea how government actually functions.

This bill just came out of committee. It must be passed by the Senate and the House and then signed by the President to become law.

None of these things have happened yet. There is plenty of time to debate the issue and plenty of time for you to write to your Congressman.

How can Obama deserve criticism here?

A bill with the support of a Republican Senator and a Democratic Senator in the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee has been introduced to the Senate that will have to be passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives before it gets anywhere near Obama.

Why is a bill coming out of committee such a big deal?

So I'll get to see aliens and the antichrist at the same time?

Awesome.

Just don't use whale communication. We all know what happens then.

And when I read your sig, all I see is AAAAARRRRR!!!!!

I kid, I kid ;)

lol touche, i hadn't taken holo-fucking into account when i posted.

I'm a rootkit, and Windows 7 was my idea!

Clearly you forget how hard it was to cheaply and quickly access high (and low) quality porn back then.

Me too, but it's up to 8223 in the half hour since you posted. The sample is growing pretty quick.

I was thinking the same thing. Although I was raised Catholic and received the relevant sacraments, I'm not religious and haven't even stepped foot in a church for a number of years. I've considered checking it out again for no real reason, but it feels awkward to me to just show up on Sunday (and I'm not that committed to the idea anyway).

If I were able to sort of "check it out" by reading the priest's blog or whatever, it would make my decision to show up and participate much easier. Either I'll decide that it's just not my thing, or my somewhat renewed interest leads me to actually go.

Seems like a good idea to me. And why stop at just Catholicism? There are at least 5 different churches of varying denominations within a few miles of my house and I don't really know the differences between them. I could hit up a few of the sites and see what they're all about. If nothing else, at least I'll learn something. (And to be honest, they might have a web presence right now and I never thought about it. Time for some googling...)

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10426627-56.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

Identical to the summary link, except from the actual source.

I'm running Slackware on a laptop with a 1.8 GHz AMD processor and 512 MB of RAM and it works fine. Granted, Slackware recently made the upgrade to the latest KDE 4.x and the eye candy doesn't work without a video card, but it's not that big of a deal.

One thing to keep in mind though, you need to have a pretty good grasp of the command line to get Slackware up and running. By default it only creates a root account during the installation and boots straight to a command line, so you'll have to get everything running manually. You'll also probably need to use command line tools to get your wireless connected too.

Slackware is great on old hardware if you know what you're doing, and it's a great learning experience if you're a novice who wants to figure out how Linux really works.

I wasn't saying that users weren't pissed. I was saying the author was blaming the paywall for pissing off users, not blaming users for being pissed off about the paywall.

Big difference.

Read TFA. (I know, I know, slashdot). He isn't blaming users. He said that after the 9/11 attacks, no advertisers were paying because they didn't want their ads next to 9/11 stories. Salon, after rounds of layoffs before the attacks even happened, was hurting for cash. They used a paywall for some content, which brought in new cash in the short term. However, there wasn't much room for growth since nobody but the current subscribers could see the content to decide if they wanted to subscribe.

You cherry-picked the summary in your little tirade. They put up the 30 second ad "day pass" thing as a way to bring in new eyeballs, but it was so convoluted and poorly executed that users just quit coming to the site. He didn't blame the users, he blamed the paywall.