You appear to presume the creation of some mystical system whereby the automatic availability of the former is assured, which would be a miraculous medical and social development even in the western world. In other words, without the latter, you may find yourself lacking the former. Yes Virginia, organ availability is primarily a social problem. It's a problem that isn't solvable in the political context, as the core of the issue deals with aspects of human rights and human nature that can't by any stretch of the imagination be forced or otherwise ethically regulated.

Depending upon the severity of your need, this may be of grave concern to you, and you may find yourself willing to rethink your personal system of ethics accordingly.

Given that conciliatory is a synonym for propitiatory, I suspect any scenarios involving Red Hat becoming litigious are unlikely to involve Red Hat acting in a conciliatory fashion on the matter at any point in the next decade or so thereafter.

Which branch of service do you hail from? There are a great many highly effective and honorable service members who have done their duty as ordered, and not only loathe the act of killing but also suffer from issues related to it for the rest of their lives. Ask their husbands, wives, or children about it.

There is a distinct difference between innate clinical psychopathy and behavior drilled into soldiers through military training. Perhaps you're a mental health professional; would you care to explain your background a bit more?

Mod parent up. I know several people whose lives have been saved by organ transplants, and the parent poster speaks directly to the fact that if not for these life-saving operations, there are people on the planet now who otherwise wouldn't exist.

I meant what I wrote. The impact of this gentleman's work is beyond measure, and is therefore immeasurable. Please acquaint yourself with the English language before commenting again, and have a nice day in the interim.

It was simply a reference to his surgical specialization, one which was honed by performing reconstructive surgeries on horribly disfigured World War II service members. You should probably go read the article before commenting further.

Your work, and the work and research from countless medical professionals following in your footsteps, has had an immeasurably postive impact on the lives of millions. Sir, rest in peace knowing that your leave is well earned.

One might say the entire TLD is PhuKed. The teachable moment here is that security rolls downhill, and depending on any single layer of public infrastructure, at least for authentication of who you're talking to without giving serious consideration to cryptographic concerns, is asking for trouble. This is still something that the world is failing at on, well, a global scale.

Well, that and taking perimeter security seriously in terms of access to critical components, and having short order failover to components with completely different codebases ready to roll into production for select services in the event of something nasty happening. These days, virtualization on multiple platforms running in parallel makes that easier, although it does have the effect of acting as a cost multiplier (sliding scale factor-wise) depending on what you're trying to make as bulletproof as possible.

TLDR = Security is hard. Be prepared to be compromised. Have alternate plans in place that assume at least one $major_thing is already silently compromised. Yeah, it's tough. Life is tough.

As with any position in federal service, you do what is asked of you. This isn't meant to sound trite; speaking as someone who has drawn paychecks from the military and has worked in the private sector in various information technology roles both before and after the DoD (and some gray in between), it's a reality that should be given serious thought. Take it for what it's worth, the primary point being that regardless of your job title, your first priority is your orders.

This has advantages and disadvantages, which measured against one another may invoke the urge the urge to seriously consider your personal value system, i.e. the value system you expressly agree to largely discount on the basis of placing your faith in your particular chain of command. If anything, it's a fun ride.

It's quite saddening to see Mozilla playing the race card. However, I'm glad to report that I'm getting ~22 FPS using Firefox 16.0.2 on OS X 10.7.5.

There's a difference between defending dogma and noting that someone appears to be making gross generalizations. I did the latter, and if anything you seem to be persisting in defending your own dogma at this point.

I'll ask another question. Do you believe there might be value in sitting down over a cup of coffee with someone like me, with my admitted political leanings (again, not to be confused with the particular beliefs of anyone else), and just having a nice afternoon talk about whatever comes up? That's how I prefer to have these sorts of discussions, as it seems the participants gain the opportunity learn more about who the other person actually is as a whole being.

So again, my objective in the previous post was quite removed from any attempt to defend or assail any particular approach to politics. Instead, it was to see if you might be interested in slowing down for a moment to think of someone as a person, instead of a cog in some political collective. I look forward to your reply.

Please reference this comment thread, which contains a comment I posted in response to what some might perceive as an "attack" on Ayn Rand (a person who undoubtedly doesn't care a bit about it, as she's dead). In broad strokes, if pushed to classify myself in terms of political affiliation, I might reasonably be described as strongly identifying with many of the principles espoused by the Libertarian party.

Based on that single comment thread and my open admission of apparent LP affiliation, I'm curious whether you would presume to make a summary judgement of my character per your post. In different terms, I wonder if you would not only believe that you have a deep understanding of me as a whole person based on this limited criteria, but would also act upon that belief if you believed it would serve to reinforce your particular worldview. I look forward to your reply.