ting's android phones start at under $90...

I use Ting - they are a division of Tucows, use the Sprint network, are no-contract, and have reasonable monthly fees and no overage penalty (they just move you to the next tariff). I have an Android smartphone which I can use without any data plan if I so wish.

www.ting.com

1. patron saints are not God
2. patron saints are Catholic doctrine, not Christian doctrine
3. the son and the holy ghost report to the Father
4. and anyway, when Cthulhu returns it'll all be moot

there's plenty craft breweries producing double digit ABV beers. Heck, Samichlaus from Austria is 14%. Barleywines routinely hit nearly 11%, Imperial Stouts run from 8% to nearly 20%. Sam Adams Utopias is 27%. Brewdog hit 51% with their "End of History" Icebock.

So, yes - there are plenty of "sensible" beers (i.e. not malt liquor, stuff which is actually worth drinking) in double digit ABV.

nope. 13.9%.

you're right and you're wrong.

Alabama, like a lot of states, is a 3 tier alcohol state - producer, wholesaler, retailer. Direct shipping of alcoholic beverages is prohibited by law.

*Liquor* is a state run monopoly. Fermented beverages are not part of this monopoly.

my credit union has zero branches.

It does, however, have an app for Android and iPhone to deal with those odd occasions when those archaic pieces of dead tree called "che(ck)(que)s" are sent to you via an obsolete delivery mechanism called "snail mail". It also refunds all ATM charges.

oh, give it a rest already, Stallman. You lost. Get over it.

that is a very US-centric view of politics. The US is not the world.

Most other countries have a functioning system of multiple parties that represent multiple viewpoints. The lack of options in the US is due entirely to the dysfunctional system in the US that locks any other choices out of the system by prohibitive costs.

To put it another way: the Dems are Miller, the Repubs are Bud.

Thank you for your take on that, paid shill.

People still use web browsers that permit adverts to display?

Wow....

From Groklaw:

"LibreOffice is being welcomed by Red Hat, Canonical, Google, and Novell, among others, and by both FSF and OSI."

They will not lack for resources with that backing.

As it's just in the beta stage, maybe they'll resolve the UI issues.

Maybe they won't... who knows :)

You're kind of... wrong.

It's taking a vitally important piece of software out of the hands of a commercial company which has not shown a great deal of respect for the principles of free, libre, open source software.

If you RFTA, it states that they have asked Oracle to donate the OpenOffice.org name to the project. Oracle's response to this request will really define Oracle's relationship with the FLOSS community.