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Continuing violations don't start the statute of limitations until the violation has ended. You post hate speech, the limitations clock doesn't start until the post comes down. Meaning the Government can declare all posts under consideration, then once they sift through them - perhaps 7-8 years down the road - decide that your post was "hate speech" and start the clock at that time.

When Protestants separated themselves from the Church, they also ultimately ended up separating themselves from much of the philosophy and theology that would have helped them to accept scientific data. On the Catholic side, you have theologians like Saint Thomas Aquinas, who worked out in the medieval period the philosophical and theological "faith versus science" issues which a lot of Protestants needlessly wrestle with today.

That doesn't mean that all Catholics take the Thomistic line (Behe is Catholic, for a particularly notorious example), but educated Catholics tend to be more aware of Aquinas' thought, and Aquinas has long been specially recognized by the Church for his theological contributions.

An attack on ID is not an attack on Christianity, however. I'm not insane, but I am a Christian who is rather pissed off with the Discovery Institute crowd at this point. They have their own ideas about what a "science consonant with Christian and theistic convictions" means, but we already sorted this stuff out theologically in the late medieval period, in a way that was considerably friendlier to honest science. The ID folks are relying on the average modern's ignorance to try and and replace that with their own "solution" that relies on dodgy science, at the expense of orthodox theology.

Bob went to Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. Even in the early Seventies, when so many of the nation's college campuses were in turmoil, this was a quiet, Catholic Jesuit college. The most famous alumnus of Gonzaga is Bing Crosby, and he made many donations to his alma mater, including a substantial collection of memorabilia. The crown jewel of this collection was his 1944 Oscar for "Going my Way".

Even this serene campus in Washington had malcontents though, one of which was Bob's roommate. The powers that be had done something to offend him, and so they hatched a plan to get even. They would steal Bing's Oscar.

Having seen too many episodes of "It Takes a Thief", they had an elaborate scheme for getting into the case where the Oscar was housed involving ventilation ducts, suction cups, and ropes and pulleys. In the process of casing the museum, one of them leaned against the case and it simply slid open. Astonished, they looked around and saw they were alone in the room, and then looked back at each other. Without a word, Bob stuffed the statue into his jacket and they walked out fore-and-aft with the statue between them, past all the folks at the student center in broad daylight.

They then went back to their room, which faced the building where museum was, and waited. Not too long afterward they heard sirens, and when the police cars showed up, the old lady in charge of the museum came running out with her hand to her head and collapsed dramatically in a way that women don't do much anymore. Soon it was all over the campus, the Oscar was gone.

After a couple of days, the pair released a "hostage photo" to the school paper, making a set of ridiculous demands. This only intensified the search for the guilty, and when the heat got to be too much, they dropped the Oscar into the mailbox, ending the "Great Oscar Scandal of 1972."

Not quite ending, as it turns out. Several weeks later, Bob was called into the college president's office. Knowing what was coming, he swallowed hard and just went in. He got the expected lecture about, "I know it was you", "stealing is a sin", and "respecting the rights of others". Then at the end, the President made a confession: When he had been a student at Gonzaga, he resented the ass-kissing that the college gave the old crooner, and had always wanted to steal the statue. "How did you do it", he asked. Bob tells the story, and the old man just chuckled and sent Bob away with a stern warning.

Months later, when Bob goes to the Registrar to pay for the next semester, he realized that there had been some kind of mistake involving the tution check from his parents, and started scrambling to come up with the money. The registrar stops him: His tuition had been paid in full, as he was the recipient of a full presidential scholarship.

I know my old econ prof doesn't read slashdot, so he's unlikely to post his own story. I've called him "Bob", to protect the guilty. A quick Google search appears to confirm that the prank happened. Whether or not it was really my prof that did it, I can't say. The proceeding is my butchered recollection of his tale as told to me in his backyard many years ago, that almost certainly contains errors of fact and leaves out crucial details.

At the time though, it was hands down, no bullshit, the God damned funniest story I had ever heard.

Bob went to Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. Even in the early Seventies, when so many of the nation's college campuses were in turmoil, this was a quiet, Catholic Jesuit college. The most famous alumnus of Gonzaga is Bing Crosby, and he made many donations to his alma mater, including a substantial collection of memorabilia. The crown jewel of this collection was his 1944 Oscar for "Going my Way".

Even this serene campus in Washington had malcontents though, one of which was Bob's roommate. The powers that be had done something to offend him, and so they hatched a plan to get even. They would steal Bing's Oscar.

Having seen too many episodes of "It Takes a Thief", they had an elaborate scheme for getting into the case where the Oscar was housed involving ventilation ducts, suction cups, and ropes and pulleys. In the process of casing the museum, one of them leaned against the case and it simply slid open. Astonished, they looked around and saw they were alone in the room, and then looked back at each other. Without a word, Bob stuffed the statue into his jacket and they walked out fore-and-aft with the statue between them, past all the folks at the student center in broad daylight.

They then went back to their room, which faced the building where museum was, and waited. Not too long afterward they heard sirens, and when the police cars showed up, the old lady in charge of the museum came running out with her hand to her head and collapsed dramatically in a way that women don't do much anymore. Soon it was all over the campus, the Oscar was gone.

After a couple of days, the pair released a "hostage photo" to the school paper, making a set of ridiculous demands. This only intensified the search for the guilty, and when the heat got to be too much, they dropped the Oscar into the mailbox, ending the "Great Oscar Scandal of 1972."

Not quite ending, as it turns out. Several weeks later, Bob was called into the college president's office. Knowing what was coming, he swallowed hard and just went in. He got the expected lecture about, "I know it was you", "stealing is a sin", and "respecting the rights of others". Then at the end, the President made a confession: When he had been a student at Gonzaga, he resented the ass-kissing that the college gave the old crooner, and had always wanted to steal the statue. "How did you do it", he asked. Bob tells the story, and the old man just chuckled and sent Bob away with a stern warning.

Months later, when Bob goes to the Registrar to pay for the next semester, he realized that there had been some kind of mistake involving the tution check from his parents, and started scrambling to come up with the money. The registrar stops him: His tuition had been paid in full, as he was the recipient of a full presidential scholarship.

I know my old econ prof doesn't read slashdot, so he's unlikely to post his own story. I've called him "Bob", to protect the guilty. A quick Google search appears to confirm that the prank happened. Whether or not it was really my prof that did it, I can't say. The proceeding is my butchered recollection of his tale as told to me in his backyard many years ago, that almost certainly contains errors of fact and leaves out crucial details.

At the time though, it was hands down, no bullshit, the God damned funniest story I had ever heard.

Eastern Washington University, Cheney

Eastern Washington University, Spokane at Riverpoint

Gonzaga University

Inland Northwest Health Services (INHS)

Intercollegiate College of Nursing, WSU College of Nursing

North Idaho College

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)

Community Colleges of Spokane (Spokane Community College)

Spokane Intercollegiate Research and Technology Institute (SIRTI)

Spokane Public Schools

University of Idaho

University of Idaho, Research Park, Post Falls

Washington State University, Pullman

Washington State University, Spokane

Whitworth College

Website: http://www.vpnet.org (a little bland at the moment, but still good info).

You will NEVER have the stability and it just does not make sense to do any more.

Actually, it's very easy to buy an inexpensive chip that can be overclocked easily. Just get a Celeron. I bought a 1.2Ghz Celeron processor, and I've overclocked it to 1.55Ghz (129Mhz FSB) with no problems at all. I didn't need extra cooling or other special hardware, and the machine is very stable, even though the PC133 RAM is running at 167Mhz (my bios is stupid and adds more than 33Mhz to the RAM speed). I've never had a problem with overheating or instability, ever. I run Prime95 constantly (I leave my computer on all the time) and if you think I use some amazing CPU cooler, I don't. Here are pictures of my case. I only have room for a 1U CPU cooler, so although my CPU runs at 48C constantly, it's never hicupped. As to your comment about not having a noticable speed increase, the reason I overclock is so that Battlefield: Vietnam and UT2K4 will run on my puny system. At stock speed, the games run just a little choppy, but after overclocking they are playable at my LCD's native resolution. So although you may have had bad experiences with overclocking, there are many others who have had success.

Err... man I'm tired. That post should be:
* Enermax 350W PSU. Not fan-adjustable.
* 40GB Maxtor D740X.
* 160GB Western Digital WD1600JB.
* 2xYS-Tech 80mm fans reduced to 10V and attached to the case with vibration-reducing spacers.

Anyway, these are probably your culprits. I'd be mostly suspicious of the hard drives, as ball bearing drives (which both of yours are) put out an insane amount of high pitched noise. I also went for a silent system similar to yours, but I cared more about noise than performance. I used a Celeron 1.2Ghz (Tualatin core, they are based on Intel's 130nm process and put out very little heat.), an ATI Radeon 7500 PCI, Seagate Barracuda IV 80GB (This is the quietest hard drive ever, I can't hear it seek.), and a 200W PSU salvaged from an old system made by Micron (It was really quiet.) to cool the CPU, I used a Zalman CNPS-6000 (AKA Flower cooler) with it's fan turned all the way down. I threw the whole shebang into a homemade clear case, and have been happy with it ever since. It's just barely powerful enough to play Battlefield 1942 and UT2K3 (at 1024x768, lowest graphics settings), but still quiet enough to leave on all the time. I've overclocked the CPU to a little over 1.5Ghz with no problems at all. I also have pictures of it here. They were taken during the winter when I took the heatsink off and tried to run it. It worked fine, in fact the CPU ran a cool 4C, with no heatsink and no cooling fan. Of course, it was -16F that night.

Err... man I'm tired. That post should be:
* Enermax 350W PSU. Not fan-adjustable.
* 40GB Maxtor D740X.
* 160GB Western Digital WD1600JB.
* 2xYS-Tech 80mm fans reduced to 10V and attached to the case with vibration-reducing spacers.

Anyway, these are probably your culprits. I'd be mostly suspicious of the hard drives, as ball bearing drives (which both of yours are) put out an insane amount of high pitched noise. I also went for a silent system similar to yours, but I cared more about noise than performance. I used a Celeron 1.2Ghz (Tualatin core, they are based on Intel's 130nm process and put out very little heat.), an ATI Radeon 7500 PCI, Seagate Barracuda IV 80GB (This is the quietest hard drive ever, I can't hear it seek.), and a 200W PSU salvaged from an old system made by Micron (It was really quiet.) to cool the CPU, I used a Zalman CNPS-6000 (AKA Flower cooler) with it's fan turned all the way down. I threw the whole shebang into a homemade clear case, and have been happy with it ever since. It's just barely powerful enough to play Battlefield 1942 and UT2K3 (at 1024x768, lowest graphics settings), but still quiet enough to leave on all the time. I've overclocked the CPU to a little over 1.5Ghz with no problems at all. I also have pictures of it here. They were taken during the winter when I took the heatsink off and tried to run it. It worked fine, in fact the CPU ran a cool 4C, with no heatsink and no cooling fan. Of course, it was -16F that night.

Don't forget passive aggressive abuses of power like turning on sprinklers by remote control, hating authority figures, and always always techno music. Oh and righting up manifestos and sending them to 'feds'.

You're referring to the movie "Hackers." What the Feds were reading was a (somewhat modified) version of the Hacker's Manifesto. Other quotes in that text file were used in the movie, by different people in different circumstances.

For instance, "We make use of a service already
existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons", was adapted by the movie makers and put into the mouths of "Razor and Blade" for their TV show in the movie.

It's a pretty good read, taken as a whole. It repeats on the phrase "they're all alike" and draws on that for its dramatic conclusion. Nice. Check it out:
http://barney.gonzaga.edu/~abennet1/manifesto.txt
(or just do a google search for Hacker's Manifesto)