It's not the cost of the building permit itself, per se, but the hidden cost of kickbacks...

Politicians are usually lawyers who know how to shake hands, kiss babies, and tell people what they want to hear.

It's likely that "Class M" is more widely recognized than the scientific term "habitable zone". Even on Slashdot.

No, they can't make laws. But they can and do veto the laws that Congress makes, so they have considerable political influence. They also control the federal government's executive branch, so they and the cabinet ministers under them wield substantial real power, up to the limits imposed by the constitution and enacted law.

I don't think so. Despite the fact that it would help immensely for the C in C to have first-hand military experience, it would also exclude a whole pool of folks who for whatever reason haven't served in the military. The founding fathers got this right. The only two constitutional restrictions for presidential candidates a native-born citizen at least 35 years of age.

Yes there are, but in those countries, if they show them to you, they have to kill you.

Switching to Linux is easier now than ever. I've just tried Ubuntu Natty, and it's a breeze to install with Windows, either dual-boot from the live CD or along side with wubi. I'm a longtime user of Red Hat and it's derivatives, and I'm jealous. In my opinion Fedora 14 is much easier and less time-consuming to install than Win7 with equivalent default apps, but Canonical's latest offering is even easier still, seemingly by an order of magnitude. It's so simple I'm going to try it out on my mother, a total luddite, just for fun.

Perhaps rouge is the norm for servers in their GALEXY...

Is it just me, or has Facebook been slashdotted? The page has been loading the whole time I typed this.

SELinnux? You're kidding, right? I'm a longtime Fedora user, and it's shipped with SELinux since FC2, I think. Although the policies and tools have improved drastically, some things like Apache, Samba and 3rd party RPMs still require manual intervention, sometimes to the point that it's simply easier to simply disable. It's hardly ready for Joe Sixpack's Adroid phone.

I guess they didn't poll Slashdot users...

As in beer, perhaps. But there's no freedom in beer. The GPL provides the freedom.

There's always the Wayback Machine....

(Google it, I hate typing HTML into Slashdot)

Cmdr Taco, why can't we just have a "link" button like most other forum sites?

That's odd. One of the few places my current phone seems to work best is in tunnels. It wasn't always this way, but I believe a lot of the carriers have installed antennae in many of them.

I second that. I've traveled to the NYC metro area on business trips for many years, and my company has switched providers three times in the past decade. AT&T was the worst, followed by my current carrier, VZW, although they are a quantum leap ahead of AT&T. I had the best coverage, reception and fewest dropped calls with Sprint, but my experience was only a little better than VZW. Put another way, of the carriers I've used in the NYC area, I found Sprint to provide the best service, VZW a close second, and AT&T a dismally distant third.