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It isn't Dell's modem that didn't work correctly, it was the Verizon CD.

I just want to add my two cents.

Nazism could easily could be considered fascism, and the King of England's rule could be considered tyranny.

Here are the Websters definitions of both terms.

fascism - 1 often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition2: a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control

tyranny - 1: oppressive power ; especially : oppressive power exerted by government 2 a: a government in which absolute power is vested in a single ruler ; especially : one characteristic of an ancient Greek city-state b: the office, authority, and administration of a tyrant3: a rigorous condition imposed by some outside agency or force 4: a tyrannical act

Both anti-virus vendors are a joke. I mean I am glad that they are out there but I've seen so many different Trojans and spyware bust right through McAfee and Symantec that I've completely lost faith in both products.

I just wish the virus/spyware crafters would fill their crap with some better advertisements. Throw some gaming spam my way and I won't see too many differences between Anti-virus 2009 and Madden 2009.

My comments were to the first statement:

It is what you end up with if you don't accept "it just is" as an answer.

I don't know what point you were making after that, I was just responding to your comments.

Regardless, I think Science is what you end up with when you don't accept the "it just is", and have questions you want answered--not religion.

Wow, seems older than that =P ...by 10 years and stuff.

Can you think of a law that exists that has no evidence?

Which is why I think that would be the religious standpoint. Science would only make that statement after a law was already defined. Religion has the ability to leave this with faith.

This article is not based on law, but on theory. That alone means it definitely leaves open the possibility of intelligent design. Religion, though, doesn't leave open the option that there isn't one so I think the "it just is" can only be applied to religion, not to science.

I'm all for civil rights but we can't police the world anymore than we can police the galaxy. I don't know anything about what's going on over there aside from what our media reports. There are tons of countries that treat their population poorly but that doesn't change the fact that their governments could be spending on a space program.

So it will be a worldwide effort regardless of how you feel about China. Whether it's a joint-worldwide effort--who knows.

...who is flying the rocket. Countries can have phallic contests all day long but space exploration needs to be a world-wide effort.

Of course, we will eventually start setting claim to planets and other bodies like we own them. Let's just hope we don't spray paint someone else's territory and get space-lynched.

'May just be' is fine except that any speculation regarding how it came to pass will have to be backed up by either scientific data or some measurable method. If not, it will turn into the theory version of vaporware and not hold water with the scientific community. Religion, on the other hand, can replace scientific data with faith. I'm not saying that one is more substantial than the other, I'm just putting in my two cents.

I think science is what you end up with if you don't accept "it just is" as an answer.

"A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose objective is to support or engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit. In many countries some NPOs will be charities, but there will also be many NPOs which are not charitable organizations." That's from Wiki, sounds like these guys would make a monetary profit though.

Odd that a non-profit site would have a link to Products and Services. I guess when you get a quote on their site you can pay in peanuts.

I read what you posted, but I disagree. I think it's a decent way to accurate gauge browser usage. I know most "non-tech" use the web much more than I do. Look at the statistics from sites like Myspace and Facebook, you'll see similar numbers. Again I'd have to disagree that people who do more web browsing are more likely to use Firefox, and I understand the 80/20 rule, but I don't see how it applies in this situation. In regards to browsers I think that Opera is decent although I still see it having the most issues with things like layout and standards. I do think it's faster than Firefox and uses way less ram (I clocked in almost 500MB usage for firefox with 4 extensions and 5 tabs last night), but still I would put it quite a bit below FF. IE8, I guess we'll see. The XBox360 has really impressed me--maybe I'll feel the same of IE8.