Revolutions have been fought over MUCH LESS taxation than we're currently enjoying.

Only saw two streaks in 15m starting at 01:40 in a clear sky with no discernible ground light. YMMV (Your Meteors May Vary).

Comments exist NOT to explain the existing code, but to explain all the other code that could have been written, but wasn't. They also point to things like test cases (which if your language doesn't suck, you can put in line), and explanatory standards documented elsewhere.

Economics has nothing to do with math, nothing to do with games, nothing to do with money. Economics is the study of the choices that people make.

Or Apache if you expect to contribute it to Apache, or Eclipse if to Eclipse, or Python if to Python, etc.

Don't say "branding" and "copyright" in the same sentence. Branding is about trademarks. Trademarks are okay in the open source world. Copyright, mmmmmm, not so much.

IE6 WILL die if enough web developers go on strike and simply stop supporting it. The people running IE6 can make their problem go away one of two ways: pressure each and every website which says "IE6? Go away." Or they can do one thing: upgrade their web browser or install FF. One thing with instant guaranteed success, or many things with likely failure?

Holy fuck, you know NOTHING about homeschooling, do you? First, THERE IS NO DIVERSITY in the government school system. You entire day is spent interacting with kids your own age plus or minus a few months. Second, social interaction in school is called "talking in class" and it's greatly discouraged. Third, government schools are SO BADLY RUN that amateurs can get better results than professionals. This rarely happens in other professions. Usually specialization makes you better.

Homeschooled kids aren't trapped in little boxes. They're free to go out into the world, explore, learn, interact with a wide variety of people, actually DO REAL THINGS, rather than mocked-up stuff out of a textbook. Freed of the busy-work that government school students are given, a homeschooled kid has the chance to learn to do something really REALLY well. Go to your local state fair and you'll see homeschooled kids disproportionally represented among the top winners of, well, whatever.

Actually, the problem is that the data he needs to make a topographic map is only readily accessible for the area covered by MassGIS. That is, Massachusetts.

Asus is screwing up here. They seem not to realize that the eee PC is a success only because of the attention it got because it ran Linux. By getting into bed with Microsoft, they're just creating an opening for another hungry Taiwanese to make a Linux netbook.

Anybody here speak Chinese? And/or live in Taiwan? Help us find that vendor. Get them to give us the specs for their (as yet unbuilt) machine, we'll adapt Ubuntu to it, they don't need to worry about software, we'll have nice hardware with good Linux support.

ARGH! Sometimes pure moronism strikes the Slashdot editors. Socialism is *perfectly fine* when it's voluntary. So is communism. So is cannibalism. So is Bondage and Discipline, Sadism and Masochism. The key here is the voluntary nature of the Internet. You can't coerce somebody over a fiber optic connection. As the classic liberals put it: "Anything that's peaceful" should be tolerated.

It bugs the piss out of me that so many people Just Don't Get It: individualism is not about doing things individually. It's about the individual CHOOSING what collective things they want to do. Collectivism, on the other hand, or its college roommate, statism, is all about having an elite choose what things individuals will be forced to do.

So yeah, the ancient conflict between those who want to force others to back their latest scheme, and those who want to live in a peaceful society, remains.

Or, in this case, all it takes for good to triumph is for good men to do nothing.

I trust Time-Warner to give me a fair rate more than I trust a NY legislator!

Besides which, what's to stop Time-Warner from having the Fair-Price set to Their-Price? Legislators all have their price, because they can't Do Good Things if they lose their next election.

It's "Sic", but whatever.

Sorry, but why the fuck do you think we would ever Ever EvEr eVeR EVER accept this license? Just because some loony-bins follow our process and submit a license doesn't mean it has a snowball's chance in hell of being accepted. YES, as a 501(c)3 nonprofit, we have to have rules that apply to all comers, and we're not permitted to arbitrarily pick and choose between who we talk to and who we don't. But equally true is that THIS LICENSE VIOLATES OSD #7, every day: morning, noon or night, sun or rain, new or full moon.

Sheesh. Give us some credit for not being COMPLETELY STUPID FUCKERS.