They're following the bible, to the letter, how much more Christian can you get?

Apart from following the anti-gay teachings in both Deuteronomy and Leviticus, they also refuse to allow bastards and sons of bastards into church, "to the tenth generation he shall be banished" (Deuteronomy 23:2), they refuse medical support such as blood transfusions as taught in Deuteronomy 12:16, and they generally promote biblical law wherever possible.

The bible does not quite say "love thy neighbour". You're misquoting Leviticus, chapter 19 where it says "love one's neighbour as oneself". Since the WBC feel every human has fallen short of the glory of god, they do love their neighbour as they love themselves - which is not very much.

The WBC also "turns the other cheek". Jesus' sermon on the mount in Matthew chapter 5 states "If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other so he may strike it also". It's about responding to violence without violence, and they certainly don't get violent at their protests. In fact, when they are attacked they literally do "turn the other cheek" to be struck again.

The WBC are about as Christian as you can possibly be without having a complete mental collapse.

Isn't free speech protected in America? Or is it only agreed speech?

Only agreed speech is safe. I thought pretty much everyone knew that.

Back in 2001 after the WTC was destroyed, an Australian boxer was denied entry to the US to compete in a match because he had been quoted as saying something along the lines of "Looks like US foreign policy came home to roost". Protecting things you want to hear is pointless - nobody is going to complain or stop you. The whole idea of "freedom of speech" is to protect people when they say things you don't want to hear. The US doesn't have that.

You have "free speech zones", for christ's sake, how blind can you be? The US is the least free of all the developed nations, no matter how often you chant the contrary.

If you don't want to be bound by any particular license's restrictions

...but I thought GPLed software was "free" software. "Free" as in "freedom".

Orwell strikes again...

Maybe I'm missing something, but unless the 6-core system is clocked slower than the 4-core one, the 6-core system should outperform it easily in all tasks.

Last year I purchased an AMD triple core X3 720 "Black edition". I figured, for my usage, it would out perform a quad core at the same speed. In place of the fourth core, it has larger internal caches (6MB!). Since most software isn't optimised for parallel tasks, I figured "fewer cores, bigger caches" is the go.

YMMV, but just like "higher clockspeed" != "faster", "more cores" != "more performance". It usually does, but not always.

It's because no-one complains worse than the people getting something for free.

People complain when they pay for things too, it just doesn't end up on the websites you visit.

You should have said, "no-one complains worse than the people getting less than they were told they were." There's a difference.

Now significantly fewer people download music.

Well, not quite, lots more download, just not through P2P. But that's because people can now get what they want, they way they want, without resorting to P2P. Not because they're scared. That's a specious argument.

Copyright infringement has fallen because the industries are finally changing to meet the 21st century. It has nothing to do with people's fear (the RIAA's fear, maybe).

So bloodless coups are pretty much the norm in Australia?

Depends on what time of the month it is...

The current model of, wait 3 or 4 years between versions, and charge $300 for it doesn't work, because nobody wants to drop $300 all at once, and they also don't want to have to buy a new computer, to get the price discounted.

The richest and most successful software company will get right on it, random internet person!

You'd think everyone knows, but I still get the occasional pompous wanker saying things like "Vista is shit! I emailed Bill Gates to let him know he's lost a customer!"

Unsurprisingly, those of us online, posting on a tech site, know more about MS than the average idiot.

Yeah, we're all really worried about that.

Oh wait, no we're not.

Are you worried that the government will find out where you drive to? After all, they built the roads. Are you worried that the government will track your eating habits? After all, they built the sewerage system.

This is a public infrastructure system allowing ANY business to compete on a level playing ground. Good for the people, good for business. Not only would I expect this to make 'net access cheaper, but I'd expect a lot more ISPs to spring up, either as additions to existing companies or as stand alone businesses. It's amazing what you can do when the cost of infrastructure is removed from the equation.

An analogy: A publisher has choices of transport. They can hire an existing company to ship their books/magazines or they can buy their own trucks and hire drivers. They don't have to invest in building actual roads. This is the same thing. No ISP has to cough up the cash to lay fibre or get gauged by those with the cash that do.

"Alien Being! They said you was hung!"

"They was right!"