Maybe just my paranoid suspicion, but at least for the time being, it looks like www.freespeech.org might have been hacked into. Other possible explanations include a simple MySql error, except FSTV is running Linux (and only Microsoft SQL produces random nondescript errors). Only time will reveal the real nature of the problem that is plaguing FSTV's web site.

I was browsing the net as usual when I stumbled upon http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/facts/default.asp the info on that page. Halfway down or so it goes "Upgrade to .Net and boost peformance/lower costs".. so I went out and found an actual stat someone performed to measure how fast Microsoft's .Net languages go (C#,J#,VB.net) and see if there's any truth to that. Well at http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5602&page=3 MS apparently did so bad that their new C# runs slower than just Visual C++. And to top it off, Sun Java 1.4.2 performs the same as VC++ (except on trig math), and Java is an interpreted, not even a compiled language.

Perhaps the lower costs in Microsoft's estimates come from a weekly hurricane followed by exploding [Dell] servers for no apparent reason, followed by volcano-like tectonic plate movement at the server site.