>Let's not do an instructive simulation of a common computer anomaly, lest some tech-retarded administrator punish you for being a good teacher.

Whoever buys it is able to do a rate hike and truly screw over pre-existing consumers, and that's just if they're feeling generous. There's far worse they could potentially do.

Everything should be owned by the Government! That way no-one would ever be screwed over.

Then use some other tool to shop in Europe, or take Opencuro's idea and start the business. Get a friend to buy you cheap American products. Petition Opencuro to work internationally. Finally, as you imply, find someone else to use that does online, secure, quick international currency transactions.

I can only imagine that setting up an international cash-exchange website is a high barrier-to-entry endeavor, thanks Government.

In any case, I like Opencuro's system better than Paypal's. I had a business idea better than Opencuro's (in theory) but got demotivated when I saw it'd been done.

http://opencuro.com/

>You could argue that there should also be a general social norm requiring that people unconnected with the case presume innocence, but it's hard to see why that should be the case.

It's hard to make it the case, since people are suspicious, finger pointing, politically correct, and don't want anyone with a past to be in public... rape is a more damaging claim to a person's reputation than murder. There's no justification for it, like there can be for killing a person. The perfect way to get someone's life [url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289992/]ruined.[/url].

If he brought the personal matter into Wikileaks public forum, he was successfully trolled (assuming innocence). Shouldn't have done that. To immediately remove him means one of several things:

He was told to stop using the soapbox to talk about the allegations, and didn't.
The other board member(s) don't value his contributions to the organization over the potential "image distortion" trap they're falling into.
Others have been bribed or blackmailed to remove a charismatic figurehead of an enemy of the bureaucrats of many nations, such as the United States.

Steal more from the citizens and give it to the unproductive poor, and other countries!

Shit, wish I'D thought of that.

They probably already do it through their update mechanism and we don't know, or don't care.

Cisco Telepresence can sync the Web 2.0 experience and proprietary best-in-class Voice and Video compression to provide you with the most information-rich, next-generation Collegiate education ever offered.

My Bronco gets 13 miles city, 14 miles highway. And probably has fewer horsepower than many sedans.

I'll be driving from San Antonio to Houston tonight. Good luck seeing me.

No, it's not.

Encrypt -> Internet.
Internet -> Decrypt.

If you have any faith in the host, encryption would be transparent.

PABST BLUE RIBBON is an excellent trash beer. Sounds like my kind of joint! I miss my Bubble Bobble at Dairy Queen.

I think both the bolded areas are meant to be "working population" as in, "income-tax-form filing".

Powerpoints, clickers, and other 'cutting edge' learning tools are great at masking the incompetence of a teacher.

This is not to say that all teachers who use powerpoints are bad; one of the best teachers I had in college (a year ago) used them to provide formulas while he explained them using a whiteboard.
My other two 'best teachers' used only a chalkboard. No content management system, no slides.

What I believe happens, is you have teachers who feel they have to explain less or work less because all the info is already given on the computer. When you have only a blank slate (literally) to explain Calculus or automatons to students with, you must make sure you cover all topics.

I cannot BELIEVE Ubuntu put their window controls on the left side! What a shot over the bow of free software's existence!

Are you fucking KIDDING?

From the very beginning of FOSS, it's been all about the ability to go your own way and try new things and modify as you desire. Ubuntu does its own thing, makes SIGNIFICANT changes AVAILABLE UNDER GPL which upstream could use at their will, but often chooses not to. If GNOME liked what Ubuntu was doing ,they could incorporate it in mainline immediately.

Almost everything Ubuntu does is open source in process and in code. If you're Richard Stallman, that doesn't cut it. For most people, it does.

  (P.S. I read RMS interview from reddit... that guy is a fanatic. Truly. I strongly disagree with him on several things, but it's always good to have a fringe group to keep the balance against the other extreme).

Nice story. Thanks for explaining the circumstances and your qualifications for judging him, and the reasons behind your grand assertion.