That's about 3 steps too many. That's why it doesn't happen.

Yeah, but the Nonsense is down the street in the Capitol Building and across the way in the White House.

Liberia might count, but unfortunately, it hasn't worked out so well.

When democracy fails, yes. I think it's evident that all the Founding Fathers did. And if you don't believe me, read the Federalist Papers.

They did, after all, start, fight and win a war for what they believed in.

I thought it _was_ Washington, DC.

I couldn't figure out the AC's point either. "I can write a virus so I shouldn't use software?"

Dig a little deeper. These folks are not alone. The gloom-and-doom predictions are being demonstrated to be more wrong with every passing month. I wouldn't say the whole AGW concept has been thoroughly debunked, but plenty of the people pushing it most strongly have been. The level of politics involved in the debate has been absurd for many years... on both sides. Nonetheless, the global-warming side that is rapidly losing credibility and with good reason. Even if they turn out to be right all along, so many people on that side have been shown to have no integrity at all and have put politics ahead of science. Nothing in science is _ever_ settled and by exaggerating their predicts, often ridiculously so, they have done more harm to their argument than actual facts could ever mitigate.

Of course it's your ridiculous rhetoric that prompted my comment. If you merely expressed the skepticism of your response to me then I wouldn't have seen you as a zealot. You might want to keep that in mind if you ever hope to be persuasive.

I think the problem has nothing to do with you and everything to do with idiots.

I bricked a Clip with Rockbox. I haven't gotten around to figuring out if I can unbrick it.

Clip+, which is probably what you're actually referring to, comes with a MicroSD slot and supports OGG out of the box. RB supports it too, but I've been leery since the Clip incident.

The Clip+ is an excellent device with or without Rockbox.

I would think an initiative to create open hardware would be exactly what /. readers want to hear about. I know I do.

The Rockbox team have been very successful in getting their software to work on a huge variety of devices, but that doesn't contradict anything lkcl said. It took a long time for RB to be ported to the Fuze, for instance.