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I'm there people. Been watching this horrible mess of a primary and Obama has come through largely keeping the high ground.

So, who is your pick?

Seriously, have all the old schoolers gone underground? This is news for nerds that is really gonna fucking matter and we get nothing?

Maybe being owned has cost us something here we are gonna regret.

Act.

http://www.savetheinternet.com

I'm impressed!

So far, pretty much everything but playing DVD media has just worked right the first time out of the gate. I decided to run the Gnome based core system and I'm liking it. Still miss KDE, but the differences are not stark enough to worry too much about. What I need is there with few hassles.

Most importantly, the package management system is top-notch. Things just install with few worries. It's not that I can't go get some code and install it, then configure, etc... I can. It's that I don't often want to. Very good show so far.

One worry these days. How does one capture a snapshot of all the important software in case of a shutdown. With the legal environment today, this is a clear reality. As much as I love just grabbing the necessary bits online, will they be there later when / if I need them again?

I still read Slash daily, but have cut back on posting for some reason. Love the community, but have been spending my posting time elsewhere, mostly blogging and yacking about classic Atari game programming.

http://www.atariage.com

http://www.opengeek.org

(In reverse order)

Been doing a lot of thinking about political issues lately as well. Where Slashdot is concerned, the whole "protect the children" bit and net neutrality are the biggies.

Of course, parents need to watch their kids online just like they do anywhere else. There is just no way we can dumb the whole thing down in a way that makes any sense at all... unless!

We give up net neutrality! That's it, we can save the kids and shut up all the noisy (and increasingly relevant I might add) folks who have just a bit too much publishing power.

Makes me sick.

So, geeks start learning about advocacy and start practicing it, or we will not be happy geeks in the near future.

Think otherwise? By all means, enlighten me. I can use all the help I can get!

proven known good users.

I've been here since the very beginning. Never posted any crap, never will, yet I still have to deal with some posts getting mangled just because a small percentage of fools insist on polluting the discussion space.

Why not let those contributors actually do just that, without being ham-strung with goofy rules.

If you earn the right to make unfiltered posts, great. If you abuse it, you then lose the right for a good long time.

The noise level would probably be the same, but we might see some better posts.

(Like the Cue-Cat one that had the actual decoder program written in C. Copy, paste, compile, done! --Not sure that can be done today, or can it?)

Anyway, that's what's currently on my mind. What's on yours? Leave me a link in the comments below and I'll be sure to give your issue some of my mindshare in exchange for yours.