Plus 60+ years ago Pope Pius XII declared no conflict with evolution, and this was built on top of earlier papal doctrines from 1909 and 1893 and that stated it had no objection to evolution and non-literal interpretation of the book of Genesis outside of human creation.

I think it could be potentially good for the free/open source software ecosystem for there to be multiple developed solutions to the init system being used out there. I think at this point, a fork could potentially be a lot of work, so I hope they are able to express a more complete vision of future goals, and perhaps differentiate itself For instance, will they try and become Free Software endorsed by the FSF?

> Look slashdot: If you don't like something stop being whiny luddite bitches and fix it. That's what open source is about.

People would rather give excuses which reveal they haven't even done a cursory review of the technical aspects involved. People confuse passion with effort, and actually working on open source takes effort.

People fork distros all the time, it's not as dramatic as you make it sound. You also have Gentoo and other distros based on it not using systemd, like Funtoo. Both Gentoo and *BSD could use development help. You could also work with uselessd, whether on the project itself or work on adapting a distro to use it. Start with smaller pieces and if people like what you do, others will join in to help.

I haven't like the changes he's caused in Linux, but none of those things are the way one should deal with it. If you don't like where Linux is going, fork things and make it the way you like. These types of actions you'd expect from people with no discernible skills to be able to contribute. If you have skill to contribute, put the work in, if you don't have skills, put some work in and gain them.

The best way to show a flawed policy is to force them to actually enforce the policy. Too often we enabled flawed policies and rules to flounder because we ignore them or find ways around the policy. If you want to change the policy, enforce the policy. For too long, Facebook's real name policy has been indiscriminately enforced. Many users persist for years with obviously fake names, while other people feel the full force of the policy, usually those in discriminated groups. This happens all the time in real life, where enforcing agencies will selectively enforce policies or laws on targeted groups. Selective enforcement of the law can be illegal as it runs counter to the equal protection act and 14th amendment, and corporations need to be careful that they don't run afoul those in discriminatory business practices.

I would say that there are some extremely bad and troubling design elements at play *if* indeed the initial process is now dictating the graphical desktop. Does upstart or openrc have this issue? Yes, initd was old and needed to be replaced, but it had already been satisfactorily replaced on many distros with upstart, which also provided backwards compatibility and didn't take over your entire system in onerous ways.

I got diagnosed with high blood pressure and got the doctor pressure me into starting to use blood pressure meds. I was also cautioned against losing "too much" weight even though I was clearly 17 lbs over the recommended BMI zone. I got a blood pressure monitor and started experimenting. In the end, I found that taking a 45 minute to hour brisk walk, had the most lasting and immediate effect on my blood pressure, even more so than the medication, which I've stopped taking.

Quite true. For instance if I live in one state and work at a company located in another state, my home state can not compel the company to withhold income tax, unless of course that state opens a branch office in my home state, then they can legally compel my company to take withhold money in the foreign state.

I'm not sure that they want to. The way they seem to be verifying authenticity of listings is through Google+, the current situation encourages businesses to sign up and properly set up their Google+ pages, if they fixed it, then there would be far less need for the companies to use Google+

Unfortunately there is a ton of content locked up copyright holders with no legal way to view or access it, whether for entertainment or study. Much of it is decades old and some of it is culturally significant.

Actually the order of the bill of rights has no meaning on importance, and it's a false inference people constantly make. What we now know as the first amendment was actually the third listed amendment in the bill of rights, it's just that the first two amendments were not approved by the states at the time, so only 10 out of the 12 amendments in the Bill of Rights passed.

I remember back in '95 being told about Blockbuster censorship and hearing about people worrying that would put the nifty independent video stores out of business. Luckily our local stores mostly survived Blockbuster, it was Netflix and On Demand that finally killed them off. There are a lot of interesting movies I saw back in the day from those stores that I can't get now through Netflix or On Demand, and sometimes I can't even purchase through Amazon.

Didn't enjoy the later or recent Gnome or KDE. Either XFCE or LXDE are both fine when one decides instead of playing/fighting around on the desktop they just want to get work done. If I wasn't such a sucker for tabs instead of Emacs like key bindings I'd just use Ratpoison/StumpWM

Not surprising, this is the same thing they did after they bought egroups back in 2000, they waited a few months, then made the adult groups disappear from the listings and search.