No, we don't. We choose to.

I'd be curious to see how much more effort it takes to cleanup a wreck, of the same magnitude, when the driver doesn't wear his seatbelt. I suspect it's not that much, but...I'd like to see the numbers. Do you have any links?

I'm glad somebody finally said this. You're talking about loaning a large amount of money to someone with no collateral, often very little credit, and no income. Sounds risky as hell. Hence higher interest rates...

Or when you setup that meeting with the small team of technical people and some genius decides to invite the manager. Usually results in a wasted hour or two.

As is often the case here, ISPs must have different configurations in different areas. I currently use uverse, and only recently switched from at&t's dsl service. I have not had any trouble using open dns with either service.

Try looking at the entire service. So far as I have been able to tell, you can turn off every single one of their "features", giving you a simple, straightforward dns service.

And for those replying to you confused about the google thing - they don't

redirect requests to google.com to their own servers

. What they do is provide a dns entry for www.google.com that points to their own servers. These servers proxy the real www.google.com to strip out some functionality that opendns found particularly offensive (I have not experienced the functionality, and can't say whether I agree or disagree with their views). However, like every other "feature" I've found at OpenDNS, you can turn this off. Yes, at first you couldn't. I stopped using OpenDNS for awhile. Now you can.

So....they cost more to feed?

More importantly, cheese is like heaven...I suspect the only reason other animals don't eat it is because they haven't figured out how to produce it.

If Americans felt that having stuff done right rather than cheaply was important, companies wouldn't have found selling crappily made products on the cheap such a profitable business model.

And were they to do this, they would alienate a large portion of their current donor base. As nonsensical as it is, there seem to be a lot of people in this country that support what the ACLU does, and yet are absolutely against any form of private gun ownership. So, they alienate a large portion of their donor base. What happens? They lose money. Which means they can fight less cases. Not only has this not helped defense the Second Amendment at all, but it's harmed defense of the First, Fourth, Fifth, etc...

It's also important to note that, while the ACLU's position on the Second Amendment is offensive, they don't take any action on that position. Which makes supporting them fairly innocuous

The ACLU doesn't take 2nd amendment cases because it would alienate the majority of their donor base.

I support them because I am in fairly close agreement with them on the things that they DO support. Just because they don't support everything that I believe in doesn't mean they aren't worthwhile. Because I care about my second amendment rights, and the ACLU isn't interested in defending them, I also support the NRA.

I don't know...the release notes specifically say:

Although G1 is available for use in this release, note that production use of G1 is only permitted where a Java support contract has been purchased.

On the other hand, I was unable to find any specific mention of G1 anywhere in the licensing agreement. However, I did find this:

Sun grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited license without license fees to reproduce and use internally Software complete and unmodified for the sole purpose of running Programs.

If anyone is able to point out in the actual licensing where the quote from the release notes is backed up, I'd be interested. (text near the second quote there did allow for "exceptions" and "supplemental terms" - but I wasn't able to find any pertaining to G1)

Depends...what's his name?

I'm confused as to how they stay up there without orbiting...perhaps you could explain a bit better?

You'll find that the GP made no mention of whether things were "good" or "bad" for you. He simply discusses whether or not certain substances are "natural".

I find a piece of black electrical tape does the trick quite nicely. Fixes that damned "shift" light too.