I would love to know what the people who see no 'cavernous ideological divide' are looking for, that the parties look the same to them.

The last 40 or so years have seen some significant shifts. The Democrats have been taken over by those looking for European style socialism. In attempts at moderation, the Republicans lost their focus on small federal government and states rights. Each compromise takes us down the progressive path, so yes you end up with these silly bailouts. There is now a resurgance of Republicans who have had enough and are trying to push back to their small-government roots.

No divide ? One side things the government should provide for everyone, the other that people should provide for themselves. What are you looking for ?

Amen Brother.

ARGH -- that shouldbe "if it was so UNacceptable ..."

Our of curiosity, if it was so acceptable, then why did you all connect to our Internet in the first place ?

I mean, if I go to someone's party, and I don't like the music they play, I leave. I don't bitch and moan they should play what I like.

And this is how we want it. Our constitution lists specific powers that the federal (US) government has. All others are left to the states to be decided on a local level. You don't like you New York, move to Utah, or Nebraska, or California. You have choices. That is your freedom,

Keep something in mind here. The population of Holland (according to Wikipedia) is 6 million. The population of New York CITY is 8.1 million. Let me say that again: We have more people in one city then in your entire region.

Oh yes, ignorant American knows Holland isn't a country. The population of the Netherlands is 16million, the population of New York STATE is 19.3 million. One of our states is bigger then your entire country, and we have 50 states. The comparison of a European country to the US just isn't valid, it would be better to compare to a single state. The US would be comparable to what the EU might become.

If you really want to wrap your head around this, find the BBC series "Stephen Fry in America", and/or the companion book.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Fry_in_America. He travels to all 50 states, treating them like 50 countries. It might help you grasp just how different Americans can be.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned "A FORTRAN Coloring Book." Yes, it's a real book: http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~kaufman1/FortranColoringBook/ColoringBkCover.html

I would call it influential due to the imitators it had in the end-user publishing field. There were many friendly computer books with cutsy images, but A FORTRAN Coloring Book was the first.

I was kinda disappointed when I saw the article.

You'll have something like one Humanities (Hum) requirement per semester, and it will be tailored to people putting all their effort into tech courses.

At least that was my experience going to Stevens Institute of Technology circa 1986 - 91

I'ld do college over to have another 4 years of drinking.

I get my body of 25 years ago back to, right ?

Wait, this was an "18 again" thing ?

I name all my hosts after Heinlein characters (Pinero, Jubal, Mycroft, Friday, LIbby, Castor, Polux, Anne, Miriam, Dorcas, Deety, Podkayne, Oscar, etc).

Routers are named after various gateways: Wardrobe, Warpcore, Tardis, Scylla, Charybdis. and the obligatory Stargate.

This reads like an article from circa 1980, just replace "Cloud" with "Personal Computer".

People didn't want to wait for access to the mainframe, they went to Radio Shack and bought a TRS-80, or whatever local store you had and picked up an Apple, CBM, random CP/M machine, etc.

Then more PCs showed up, they needed to share data, IT installed a network ...

Isn't this where . . .

Because every bit of propaganda helps. Frankly, I would think they were idiots if they DIDN'T announce they had found porn, whether they did or not.

It has nothing to do with what "US people" think of porn. The idea is to show he was a hypocrite. People may be less willing to die for his cause, if it can be shown that he didn't follow his own words. Anything that went against his own supposed ideology would serve the purpose.

Or you can go with vintage gear, if you know where to find it.

I'm using a set of 1970 (or so) original Advent Loudspeakers. A cousin gave me his 'old' system when I was in school around 1986, when he upgraded to a Sony system. I think I got the better part of the deal, and am still using it.

The system included the 2 Advents, a BIC turntable, Yamaha Natural Sound Receiver, and an Akai tape deck.

I'm going to bet that no one talking about this knows what the apps actually does. Does the app say "Hold this to your forehead for 5 minutes while running to be cured of being gay" ? If so then it could be denied as being a fraud and skip the whole issue.

Along the same line, a vaccination for being gay would be just as bogus, but wouldn't be an argument against vaccines for polio.

I'm going come back on the freedom side. A person can want or not want, whatever they want. Moreover, as a general fear of absolutes, I would be incredibly surprised if everyone who was gay, was so for the same reason. I don't think we know nearly enough about it to make blanket statements.

Apple, of course, is free to do whatever they want with their business, and we are free to buy whatever phone we want, which is why I have a G2.