Comment Theatrics (Score 1) 328
FTFY
close to 0 public support for another war
You should try skimming the comments on Fox.com sometime.
As an aside,
Gonna have to disagree with you on that point. The
Don't confuse Visual Studio with the languages / framework.
Even if you're referring to the availability of free-as-in-beer/speech libraries there are quite a few of those on CodePlex, GitHub, and CodeProject, depending on what you need.
I realize this is cynical but...
According to the WHO ~7.6 million people die of cancer each year: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs297/en/ and according to the National Cancer Institute ~1.6 million of them are Americans: http://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/all.html
That's a huge revenue stream for the drug companies to just ignore because "hey, it's cured!" I just don't think the drug companies won't start looking for ways to kill this or put it out of reach of most people. They haven't exactly proven to be altruistic and wholly forthcoming thus far; they're just for-profit companies in the same old "corrupt American capitalist" system.
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.