What new curbs to customization will you think of next? Why do you think we don't use Chrome/Chromium? I like your products, I've used them faithfully for years and I sincerely thank your developers for all their fine work. Now please stop dreaming up useless, arbitrary new 'features' that serve only to make Firefox look "New! Improved!" Haysoos Marimba.

Mindswap! http://www.scribd.com/doc/35996274/Robert-Sheckley-Mindswap

"China does not have a incompetent leadership mired in corruption."
"Incompetent leadership mired in corruption" is fairly synonymous with the "political criminal nexus" nicely documented in Misha Glenny's 'McMafia'.

http://www.cic.nyu.edu/peacebuilding/docs/Lima%20Seminar%20Background%20Paper.pdf

I downloaded and installed the release candidate--a week or so ago?--alongside Lucid on an old Optiplex GX-270. The install went flawlessly and Maverick has performed without a single hitch. Seems noticeably quicker, too.

You might want to add one item to your list: Organ Damage In Rats From Monsanto GMO Corn
http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/01/13/0328221/Organ-Damage-In-Rats-From-Monsanto-GMO-Corn

I use OpenDNS too as well as NoScript (is IPBlock relevant? I run it routinely) and, since installing Ghostery this AM (thanks, timothy) I've blocked eight of these--er--thingies that I'd no idea I hadn't blocked. Hmph.

Agreed. Of course the original 'Right Wing' was, most basically, in favor of the untrammeled power of the monarchy, the aristocracy and the church. The history of The Enlightenment and of The Left is that of resistance to those powers and the promotion of egalitarianism (with significant deviations by coercive utopians, of course). It seems to me that the only difference today is that The Corporation has replaced the monarchy and the aristocracy--by any other name it remains fundamentally hostile to democracy and (and so naturally to the Bill of Rights and so on). The fact that the scale of this dispute is now global doesn't, as you suggest, bode well for the little guy. If successful the right will undo the New Deal, the Bill of Rights and The Enlightenment (of course they've already gone a long way toward undoing the latter two in the U.S. just in the last decade). No overarching agenda or conspiracy is necessary as The Right is historically and fundamentally opposed to the underlying principles of all of the above.

Hi Steve,

Yeah, nothing new--a lot older than a century eh?

"...This fact is made evident by an examination of the interests of these men who made up the Constitutional Convention of 1787. There were fifty-five delegates present in the Convention. A majority were lawyers; most of them came from towns; there was not one farmer, mechanic or laborer among them; five-sixths had property interests. Of the 55 members, 40 owned revolutionary scrip; 14 were land speculators; 24 were money-lenders; 11 were merchants; 15 were slave-holders. Washington, the big man of the Convention, was a slave-holder, land speculator and a large scrip owner.

"Jefferson was in France!

"The Constitution, as framed by the Convention, says nothing about the rights of man. It contains no guarantee of free speech, of free press, of free assemblage, or of religious liberty. It breathes no single hint of freedom. It was made by men who believed in the English theory, that all governments are created to protect the rights of property in the hands of those who do not produce it.

"...the Constitution, as drawn up by the Convention, was made to protect the rights of property rather than the rights of man..."

Triumphant Plutocracy: The Story of American Public Life from 1870 to 1920
By Sen. Richard Franklin Pettigrew [Ret.], 1922
In Public Domain

It gets better: What isn't mentioned in ratical.org's David Korten quote is that the "court reporter" who was the author of the headnote cited was Bancroft Davis, retired president of the Newburgh and New York Railway Company (Southern Pacific Railroad was the defendant in the case) among other things including judge and lawyer. Just doing a little volunteer work, I reckon...

In 1982 the University of Washington Press published R.J. Blong's 'The Time of Darkness: Local Legends and Volcanic Reality in Papua New Guinea'. In that case a local oral tradition was proven to have been an accurate account of an ancient volcanic eruption. Out of print now but easy to find second hand and a good read.