On one hand, Religion, with its [many versions of the] One True Book of Divine Origin (which may not be questioned, even a little bit, on pain of death), filled with many tales of dubious historical accuracy and many internallly inconsistent moral pronouncements (you should NOT immediately kill all witches, homosexuals, and people who don't believe the same as us, even though the book says the Lord clearly instructed you to do this).

On the other hand, Science. Trying to come up with a logical explanation for how we got here and why those lights in the sky keep moving around. Also, why we get sick and die and how do we stop doing that?

And the guy who is in charge of [one brand of] the fairy tales, whose job it is to interpret them...is saying the fairy tales aren't all there is in life. Science and rational thinking, questions which can't yet be answered, and fairy tales are all important, but you have to figure out for yourself how important each one of them is to you. And while you're doing that, be nice to each other and help those who are less fortunate.

Maybe there is hope for this world after all.

If we can only ignore those guys who are convinced their brand of the fairy tales tells them to kill everyone who doesn't think the way they do... [sigh]...

Jordan is operating on a shoestring, paying in advance (with his customers' money) for units he intends to modify with his own code, then ship to customers. The results are not surprising.

We're using it to do a web page-based UI for a commercial product. The RasPi people are looking for commercial users, so we decided to try it out. It's far less expensive than other commercial SBCs, and being Linux based, it's a known quantity (no nasty proprietary OS or API to deal with), and the RasPi has a large user base, so hopefully, no unannounced obsolescence. Only drawback is that we need a HDMI converter board between the RasPi and the bare TFT panel. We still come in at around $200 for the entire display subsystem.

His huge testicals.
Soviet or US, those space pioneers deserve a lot of credit for taking those risks.

Not as long as fools keep giving him money. :-)

Oh, no...you see you don't understand...it's not a crime when *we* do it!

Most kids are required to have school IDs now. Write the information on a card of the same size as the ID, laminate it, and attach it to the lanyard that holds the ID.

They can carry jet fuel, too.

If the buyer is not able to meet in person (I don't care why), a US Postal Money order is available anywhere, up to $100 per m.o. If the buyer or his agent) wants to pick up in person, cold cash. If they can't or won't agree to either of the above payment methods, sorry, but I won't sell to them. I've never had a legitimate buyer unable to pay in one of those two ways, and everyone I've bought from on Ebay will accept a Postal MO.

This is important: terrorists who claim to be fighting for Islam...are criminals using religion as an excuse and justification for their crimes.

I've had Comcast cable since it was Cablevision (then MediaOne, then AT&T), and it has been pretty much trouble free, except when they try to reconfigure their network. I find their internet acceptable but would never rely on their telephone service(friends in town have had month-long outages when amplifiers on their trunk line fail and there's no one competent to troubleshoot the problem) .

*My* first instinct is to call out the person making the threats. Folks, it's a stupid video game! If the gaming scene is so important to you that you feel the need to threaten violence to someone who is raising the issue of anti-female attitudes, maybe you need to put the keyboard down, climb out of your basement and smell the fresh air. That, and spend more time relating to real people, because you seem to be part of the problem she's talking about.

Thanks, Comcast!

I kept the guy online, playing dumb, for about 15 minutes, until he finally gave up and told me to call Microsoft.

At which point, I asked him if I should tell them I was running Linux.

His reaction was priceless...and unprintable!

Well, minimal ads, anyway. So...what are the benefits of having ads, again? I use AdBlock, so I don't see them, but when I use another machine, I see loads of ads for Progressive Insurance (don't need it, have a deal through my wife's union), Ancestry.com ($20/mo...forget it), and a bunch of other stuff I'm never going to buy. Likewise, the stuff that shows up to the right of my Google searches is hilariously inappropriate. I've clicked on a few of them and they're just link aggregator sites, for the most part. There seems to be an economy in ads, but as to actual useful links that are of interest to me, there's a real shortage there.