But but but... They're from the government and they're here to help!

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For those of you in the know, I have a question. I understand that some companies do pay their people to work on the Linux kernel on company time.

Why do they do this? On the one hand, they may have some profitable use for the Linux kernel, but on the other hand, Linux is GPL'ed, so they are effectively giving away the work to the world at large. That may be fine for Joe Average volunteer kernel developer, but why would a company want to contribute to a public project like so?

I don't think I could stand to hear someone refer to IE7 as "version 7 of the Internet". I would go completely Daffy Duck over that!

As a web developer, I can only imagine how much more pleasant my work would be if I asked my customer, "What versions of IE does this application need to support?" and the response was, "IE? What's IE?"

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I understand that there are risks involved and the benefits are dubious, but I'm one of those odd-ball whackjobs who thinks that it isn't Uncle Sam's business what foods I choose to eat. Maybe in a few more generations, people like me will die out and we'll have a docile population of people who do what they are told without question.

Hi Lazy! I'm very glad to hear that you're feeling better, regardless of what treatment you're using. I'll be first to admit that I'm not a CH expert and I don't know all the facts, but I hate to know that there is a painful illness out there and be told that red tape is holding back progress in treating it. Here's to many pain-free days to come, for you!

Yes, FCUK the FDA! One of the most thoroughly corrupt agencies in the fedgov. I can't believe we actually put up with their bullshit.

You could start by putting a stop to the sting ops and SWAT raids on farmers who sell raw milk.

A million times this. I recently heard some news about a new medical discovery. It is a treatment for a chronic illness called "cluster headache", which reportedly causes such severe pain that people literally kill themselves to stop the pain.

A CH sufferer serendipitously discovered that using LSD recreationally stopped his pain. Word quickly spread among CH sufferers, but as you can imagine, they were worried about being busted by the man who wears the badge.

A medical researcher got wind of this and did some rudimentary research on a drug that is chemically similar to LSD, but does not cause a "high"; in other words, it has no abuse potential. He made a remarkable discovery: many of the patients he studied reported that taking just THREE DOSES PER YEAR stopped the pain.

The problem then, is that the illness is rare enough that you could never make back $2.5 billion dollars selling three pills per year to patients, so no big pharma company would want to go thru all the red tape to get it approved by the FDA. As a result, there remains no effective FDA-approved treatment for CH.

Many of these patients continue to self-medicate with old-fashioned LSD while looking over their shoulder for "The Man". How sad....

Profit indeed comes before people, but I had no idea how abusive the system could be. And for the record, I do not have CH.

No thanks, I'll worry about the quality of the sound from my TV when I can expect a TV I paid $1000 for to not introduce a quarter-second of input latency.

Call me picky, but as far as I am concerned, any discernible input latency is completely unacceptable. I can't believe that people actually save their old CRTs to play Guitar Hero because the new ones tend to be so laggy.

^^^ This!

I've been working as a contract software developer for a few years now. I feel like I get a out of working on different projects. I meet smart people who have stayed in the same place for years. They definitely have the advantage of deep knowledge of the environment, but I find that they often lack breadth of knowledge sometimes.

It gives me cringe when I hear people say that they trust to gov't to tell what is good for us. I once asked a doctor "Do you trust the gov't to tell what is best for our health?" and he said "Yes" without hesitating.

You're saying that diversity is good for owners and weakness for labor because... a diverse workforce is easy to divide against itself, or did you have something else in mind?

The estimates of the number of Jews killed typically range in the millions, with six million being the most frequently cited number. However, there were other "undesirables" mass-murdered, as well. I just presumed he must have included them in the 12 million figure.