XML for the win

  (and for programmers for the next 50 generations)

synergy(the software, NOT the buzzword) is awesome. I hope it never gets renamed to something I won't be able to find down the road.

Oh.

You said Iraq.

Carry on.

As $YOUR_DIETY is my witness, I swear to name any illegitimate children I spawn (yeah, yeah, except it really COULD happen in my case) Havoc.

(Winky, Smurfette, and Booger will be very jealous though)

Exactly. If the EFF decides to pursue this to the end, it will more than likely give others pause when trying to stop people from USING their PURCHASED electronic devices.

They aren't talking about "hacking IP". They are talking about using hardware, think linux on Intel hardware. If Intel required signed bootloaders, do you think the law would protect them too?

Funny you should ask this during this thread :-)

It applies to the source of much of Led Zepp's music (old bluesmen that never saw a dollar, or credit for their work)

Got shouted down in a most disgusting way when it was brought up.

You have to realise that nobody shoots for the middle (workable) ground.

You have to aim for NO copyright to get "reasonable" copyright.

Tell me I am wrong please.

Asphalt has it's issues in cold climates.

Up here in Toronto, highways are concrete (yes concrete) with an asphalt layer on top.

Every summer the asphalt has to be repaired, leading to our two seasons.

Winter, and Road Repair.

Things may be similar in the midwest but I am only speculating.

*too afraid to comment*

I may not completely understand graphic cards but,

I think in this case clock cycles actually *DO* mean something.

Really?

top running on an X-less server.

Confusing and foreign enough for the masses.

Ah the trillion dollar question at last.

Coders don't design faulty business logic. Coders code what they are told to code.

The asian immigrants have one thing going for them; hope. People here in the vicious cycle of poverty have often given up on themselves, and are actually in a position where they feel hopeless.

The native family likely has a drug abuse problem, maybe a alcoholic father or a mother addicted to gambling. You can succeed in life if you have the drive and determination to do so, but these kids from these fucked up homes come out fucked up too, and the cycle continues.

For the state to defeat poverty, it takes investment, time, and determination. You can blame the individual, but you should also blame their circumstances.

Let's dissect this for a moment.

If we're talking grade school, my wife finds that with most kids who lag behind it's the parents lack of involvement that's the problem. Teachers want to fail the kids who don't perform; my wife had six kids on her class who didn't do a lick of homework. When she called the parents in to discuss they never showed. Why should the school care when the parents don't? Education, IMO starts in the home. A teacher in grade school can't fail a kid; it's too hard and it's not worth the effort. The parent needs to decide to hold their kid back.

In high school, welcome to life. You're in a class of 30. When you move into university you'll be in a class of 150. The world doesn't bend for you, you bend for the world. Tough shit. That, unfortunately is life, and isn't the teacher's fault, it's the student's. Teaching style be damned.