Yes, it is confusing. It is a reflection of the sad state of affairs with American churches. They should have nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with Ayn Rand. Unfortunately people think Ayn Rand aligns with their thinking. Yes, there is *some* overlap. But it is not at all Christian thought. I certainly hope that a majority Christians don't adopt Ayn Rand thinking. Ayn Rand was against charity. Christianity is *for* charity as has been for hundreds of years. Charity without government. True charity, not "charity" with the force of the government. That is what is wrong with charity these days. People expect the government to be the agent of charity when it is incapable of true charity.

I think this is only true because the government has stepped in. If it was only the church's responsibility to take care of the poor then you would see more action. Traditionally, the church is one of the few organizations to take care of the poor... all over the world. Just look at the larger charities, they all have their roots with churches or Christians.

Yes, I know what is happening. Even James Dobson admitted it was a bad approach. Dobson admitted that the gospel took a back seat to the gospel. He is right. The Bible is right. Politics is not above the gospel. I really, really, really hope that some big denominations get this. Politics is rendering to Ceasar. Let the church be the church and take care of the poor and needy. The government does a terrible job at that task.

People take what happened in Israel and try to apply it to the US. That is incorrect. The US is not Israel. The Bible doesn't tell Christians to create a government and force people to live as Christians. It is silent on the issue. It just tells them to go into the world and preach the gospel. No matter what the government is.

BTW, The communal living described in Acts was in the church, not the government.

So as Jesus said (Matthew 22:20-22):
and he asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?” “Caesar’s,” they replied. Then he said to them, “So give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left him and went away.

Chef and Puppet are huge in DevOps. It seems Ruby has found its niche.

Isn't it LOW pressure sodium? The low pressure ones have that orange look. They are extremely power efficient, but they give off a narrow spectrum of light. I have heard cops and paramedics hate them because it is hard to tell what is blood, oil, or water spilled on a street.

I'm a Linux systems admin... specifically the hot word these days is "DevOps". I code Ruby/Chef all day. So I flip desktops from web/terminals/email/irc all day. A lot of terminal/ssh stuff. A lot of editing files. I run about 3-5 KVM machines on my desktop box for testing (using virt-manager).

I understand some of the complaints. It get it. But, wow, Gnome is looking really good! It will be interesting to see how this new menu layout works. So far I haven't had any complaints in Gnome 3. I've been using Gnome everyday since it was initially released in the RedHat/Fedora distros. I've had more complaints with the bumps in the road with Fedora over the years than Gnome itself.

I just starting playing with Arch. It's okay, but it is not a solution for serious work. RHEL/CentOS the way to go for serious tasks. RedHat has done a great job writing real management tools that allow an admin to control and manage hundreds of machines. The FreeIPA/RH IDM project itself has be long overdue in the land of Linux. For me, I stick with Fedora on my notebook and RHEL/CentOS on the server. Fedora keeps me up to date with that is on the horizon of RHEL. Fedora has the management tools that other distros lack. I have tons of respect for RedHat. Keep up the good work!

Don't get me wrong, I do like my middle-click paste. If this is due to Wayland, I'm okay with it. I would not be surprised that Wayland removes this most basic function because it is redundant to have more than one type of copy buffer. One of the main reasons for Wayland is to get rid of the crud in X that has built up over the yeas. If that means loosing one of the past buffers, fine with me. People, get over it!

There *was* an issue with updates for the initial CentOS 6 release, but that hasn't been an issue for awhile. The last update to RHEL (6.4), CentOS had the release out in something like 9 days. Normal day-to-day updates keep pace. I haven't had any issues.

Coal plants have already been shutting down due the fact that natural gas is cheaper. Since we've been building natural gas plants, our carbon emissions are down to 1990's levels. Funny thing, we didn't even sign Kyoto, yet we did better than most (all?) countries in reducing carbon.

I think it is likely placebo. This is the first I've ever heard that people complain about LED lights. On the other hand I *still* hear people complain about fluorescent lights despite the fact that it is pretty rare to find ones driven by magnetic ballasts anymore.

I still hear people complaining about fluorescent lighting despite the fact that CLF's have electronic ballasts that use extremely high frequencies. I could understand the old, old lights that used magnetic ballasts, but CLF's? Really? Seriously? People can see 40,000Hz on a properly working tube bulb? It is not like a monitor with tiny phosphors where I could see the scanning. LED's flicker way more than I ever noticed fluorescent lights. To make matters worse, LEDs are used in many more places! I noticed the flickering from the taillights in newer cars, gadgets, LED equivalent bulbs that dim, etc.