``When you have potential employers that would reject you in preference for other based on even just a list of the fiction recently read it's better to not let them get anything via that channel, and to do their jobs properly.''

Well, this guy looks like he's got the technical skills but since I can't find anything about his personal life online and make a recommendation based on his past behavior, likes, dislikes, etc.: REJECTED!

One of the definitions I found was:

One who makes great sacrifices or suffers much in order to further a belief, cause, or principle.

I am sure that fits. While SpaceShip II is mainly intended for a non-exploration purpose, the program has resulted in some significant advances in rocketry and White Knight II has significant non-tourism use. These pilots have been involved in other space efforts, I remember the one who was injured from the Rotary Rocket test flights. There are lots of safer ways for these folks to make as much money as a test pilot is paid. They do what they do to advance our progress in aeronautics and space.

What will they call these?

Martyrs? Who killed them for their beliefs?

Go away, troll. They certainly died while pursuing something intensely important that they were willing to risk their lives for. The fact that you weren't around to pull the trigger makes them no less martyrs.

Nothing of his seems to have made the list. Sort of surprising.

``any company in 2014 still believes their customers give the least damn about their ISP's home page''

You mean my ISP has one? I never thought to look figuring it'd be about as useful as the old AOL web site.

But back to the topic at hand: Way to go guys... shoot your credibility to kingdom come right out of the gate by placing limits on what will be covered. You might as well add a subtitle: "Cheery Verizon-approved News".

First, it's the New York Post which is largely unsuitable for wrapping fish in let alone as a reliable source of "news". Second, she claims that all her work on Benghazi cover-up and Fast-N-Furious gun running scandals was being messed with. So her noble work in helping to promulgate right-wing nut job conspiracy theories was being thwarted. Next we'll be told that Obama himself wrote and installed the malware on her computer.

... after "Jackass Flats".

I'm bummed that I live too far West to be able to see the launch.

I figured they'd wait until next week before the Harper regime tried a `Patriot Act'-style takeover of Canadians' rights.

Anyway, I have better uses of my time than to waste another minute with you.

We knew what was going on when you ran your anti-IBM campaign, sometimes even positioning yourself as arguing on behalf of our community. It was a way to lend credence to IBM and MS arguments during the SCO issue. To state otherwise is deceptive, perhaps even self-deceptive.

Florian, you would not be devoting all of this text to explaining yourself if you didn't feel the need to paint your actions in a positive light. That comes from guilt, whether you admit it to yourself or not.

Go write your app, and if you actually get to make any money with it you can give thanks, because it will happen despite what you worked for previously. Keep a low profile otherwise because your credibility is well and truly blown and you can only make things worse. And maybe someday you can really move past this part of your life. But I am not holding out much hope.