Agreed. A heartfelt apology normally will stop because at that point the morality is back on the crowd. But of course, your apology must be heartfelt and it's clear you understood what you did wrong.

ESR is just as bad if not worse than Stallman, the man was unabashed racist and fascist. The amount of unwholesome opinions that he holds are numerous.

This is poor behavior by the researcher, for an open source project they should have let them know first - instead of keeping it around so they can yuk it up with their friends at Defcon.

Besides, once pot becomes legal, people will forget all about tobacco based products.

I've only known him as one of our old Slashdot hosts. Rest in peace, Roblimo. May your friends and family keep you in their hearts forever after.

I'm not sure what point you were trying to make other than "marketing and sales people" are wastes of space. Which makes absolutely no sense in a business. You need all parts to succeed. Your condescending tone and arrogance is amusing though. Not that your opinion matters much to me. My comment wasn't directed at you anyways as much for others reading this thread.

Or reject what science says and go with junk science from non-scientists. Force a country to be a christian nation, follow christian ideology

NC would be a perfect place for him. Considering what facists the Republican party has been there.

Yeah, that's why despite all that Trump is reputedly still calls Bannon for advice. ::eye roll:: The mainstream GOP doesn't give a shit about anything as long as they can pass more tax cuts. That's the only ideas they have.

As a former Purdue grad, the joke I hear when I visit West Lafayette, is that Indiana's greatest export is it's people. Nobody is interested in staying here because the state government is terrible. Pence apparently did a number of idiotic things there that even pissed off the Indiana Republican party.

Long ago, Indiana was a great conservative state, and I absorbed some great aspects of its conservatism. But conservatism is nothing more than a cult that has no intellectual heft behind any of its positions. In the end, most red states who practices the current form of conservatism is slowly rotting frm the inside. It's like Egypt and other countries, where they distract their population by talking about social cultural issues. So moronic.

You do realize that California by itself has an economy bigger than most countries, right? Agriculture is one of it's biggest exports. The entire west coast is filled with agriculture as well as a burgeoning tech culture. It is well documented that a number of red states (san places like Texas and Florida) take more than they give when it comes to federal dollars. Blue states tend to have to pay more to make up for shitty economic policies of red states or whatever they call conservatism. In the war of ideas, conservative ideas have failed time and time again - see Kansas and Oklahoma. Ask yourself, why doesn't Peter Thiel not go to Kansas? It's because assholes have tried trickle down economics to the point that they can't even fund 5 days of school. If you're a startup, do you think that's a good place to setup shop. Nobody is going to go there where there are poor resources.

What a laughable argument. Ever been to a left of center rally? It's an amazingly positive vibe. it's because the left is a highly diverse set of people with different views that we try to accept. A right of center (if such a thing exists these days) doesn't have the diversity seen in the left and suffers from group think. Since they are mostly fighting for something they can't have, it is a pit of rage and hostility.

As an engineer turned marketing, I think you're off base. The company I work for now, has people with backgrounds in theater and dance. The kind of creative energy that comes between us is really amazing. I sometimes thing like a engineer, and they approach problems different from me. I feed them the tech and community input and then we together create a story.

Not everyone can do that. Depending on the age, a lot of people don't want to learn new skills or start over or whatever, and it takes perseverence.

You'll need another service for that. but othewise a lockbox or something. You just need to change how the "last mile" looks like. But problematic if you are disabled or can't move around.