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Some quotes on why walking rocks : )

No amount of math and analysis will change the fact that baseball is a pretty poor excuse for a "sport"

Baseball is the only game left for people.

To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width. ~Bill Veeck, 1975

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world.

If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off. ~Bill Veeck

More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood. ~Thomas Boswell, in Inside Sports

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection. ~Red Smith

Baseball

This point is a valid one. If the speech they seek to censor is dangerous, then who will they sacrifice into it's teeth to seek it out? Why must the Muslim countries learn the hard way that you cannot define obscenity without yourself being obscene?

http://www.quotegarden.com/hypocrisy.html Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. ~H.G. Wells

the kernel application binary interfaces are a moving target.

That's why we have glibc, which abstracts that ABI from applications.

Kernel driver interface - the horse was already beaten to death many times ( see here ).

a consistent configuration system, to enable distribution;

Windows tried that with Registry - and it didn't worked. And it will never work since "one size never fits all" requirements of all applications.

native file versioning;

Was tried many times before and failed miserably. As long as majority of files are blobs, versioning on level of file system makes no sense. Versioning on level of applications is implemented already more or less everywhere it was needed and SVN/git is there for the rest of applications.

audio APIs;

See ALSA and its user-space libraries.

See SDL.

and the integration of X11 with apps.

As was shown by FreeDesktop initiative not really needed nor X folks want to be bothered by all the end user bells and whistles.

Finally, he argues that Linux needs a committee to insure that all GUIs work consistently and integrate better on the back-end with the kernel.

Committee?? Buahahhahahaha!!!1!!cos(0)!!!!!!!

All what he says was tried before (see (11)) and generally can be described as "failed".

Forget to source that?

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
-Ronald Reagan

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/ronaldreag109938.html
http://www.presidentreagan.info/speeches/quotes.cfm
http://www.quotegarden.com/taxes.html

Seriously. I love to explain jokes.
Lloyds is a plc.
Go search for antropo and see what to offend means.
Now try to imagine an offended Plc.
And hand in your geek card.

Close - Benjamin Disraeli.

The familiar joke about Democrats being stupid but passionate and Republicans being cold but smart seems to fit this situation rather well, unfortunately.

I prefer Dave Barry's take on said joke:

The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery. They're the kind of people who'd stop to help you change a flat, but would somehow manage to set your car on fire. I would be reluctant to entrust them with a Cuisinart, let alone the economy. The Republicans, on the other hand, would know how to fix your tire, but they wouldn't bother to stop because they'd want to be on time for Ugly Pants Night at the country club. ~Dave Barry

FWIW, I'm registered Unenrolled, but vote Democratic. Thanks to QuoteGarden.