Are you saying that a meme has come true?!

1.) Develop F/OSS
2.) Market it to a broad range of users
3.) ???
4.) Profit!

Yeah, that was nice (not having the commercial spin). I guess the founder of Wikipedia is in desperate need of cash.

No, it's a left-handed emoticon. (:

I already managed to read the article. :p

Interesting article. (:

There's a difference. When paving roads you're only going to use one sort of road surface (blacktop asphalt isn't the only option), not 29 different types.

[sarcasm]corporations are a legal entity, so why not? [/sarcasm]

But it's true. Whether you like it or not. (:

Please don't generalize. (:

Well considering it is, at its heart, a uniquely Christian holiday with a date co-opted from Pagan culture...

If not, I suggest you start training right now because the utilities will not be able to keep up with the demand for the installation of home charging stations and, under the NEC, a licensed electrician is an approved person for installing a home charging station. (:

Residential charging stations are already covered in the National Electric Code, fwiw (and the Code is considered law, with state/local overrides for specific provisions (with the approval of the AHJ)).

I think when I finish my training as an electrician, I will be getting with auto dealers in my state to directly market my services to those buying an electric car as they will most likely be in need of a charging station. (:

If the presents mean that much more to any child we may have, then I've failed my child. Period.

I remember being a kid and it wasn't about the presents for me (which is probably good because we weren't well off). I loved getting them, but like another poster: I don't remember a single one. I remember time spent with my paternal grandparents (my grandfather died in 1996). I remember time spent with my maternal grandmother (my maternal grandfather died from alcoholism around the time I was born). I remember time spent with my parents, sister, aunts, uncles and cousins.

All of this belies what the whole meaning for the season is, anyway. It's about the birth of Christ (the Christ in Christmas), while Easter is about His death (and not some stupid bunny that hides hard-boiled chicken eggs) and the fulfillment of prophecy through His death.

So yeah, if you're buying into the consumerism, and then using our the selfishness of a child to support it, you're celebrating the wrong thing and you've failed your child. I don't care if you don't agree with me. The truth is the truth.

Christmas isn't about presents. It isn't about who gets the most stuff. It's about the birth of a savior this world desperately needs but continues to reject. It's about family and love. The presents don't even come close to filling that role. They're a cheap and easy alternative to the true meaning of Christmas (Matthew 1:18-24).

I'll probably be modded into oblivion for the next couple of weeks, but whatever.

You've bought so fully into the lie of consumerism that you can't see anything else as being fulfilling for you or your family. That's a failure on society, sir; and yes, you and your wife for going along with it. Sorry, but I count that as an epic failure. One to be avoided on my part.

If that's what makes you and your family happy, so be it, but do not think for one moment that it's right to feed that mentality.