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Not so crazy about Trudeau after his PEN remarks, but this nails it:
http://stupidevilbastard.com/2006/01/doonesbury_takes_on_creationism/

Recent studies show the Tea Party is the most hated group in America. Hated more than Muslims and Atheists. http://stupidevilbastard.com/2011/08/theres-finally-a-group-thats-hated-more-than-atheists-the-tea-party/

In my response to someone else, I compared it to FOSS going the way of PETA. It's not fight the opposing side, it's fight and devour the moderates.

It's a push towards extremes, and I find it to be pathetic because we are supposed to be the intellects.

A slap on the wrist could be considered an overly harsh assessment. As I recall, they got to make a "donation" of music CD's to schools and libraries to cover part of the damages. This only provided them an opportunity to empty their warehouses of the junk that would never have otherwise left their shelves.

I use Windows XP and related windows software because it just works, and I'd rather actually use the PC than constantly fight it.

A lot of people just use computers. (Some people might call them end-users.) Some people also just drive cars.

I got into computing as a profession because I didn't want it as a hobby. I'd rather spend my *copious amounts of free time* sketching, painting, stargazing or playing with model rockets. Likewise, lot of my old friends became mechanics, auto-detailers, etc so they could play with cars all day and go home to something else.

I've basically given up or more accurately abandoned the desire to use Linux because XP does pretty everything I need, and the software availability and stability meet or exceed what I need (graphic design, web development, 3D modeling and animation, games)

However, for both my and my old friends something interesting happened. Most of my friends have one or two old cars that sit in their garage. Often in pieces, these vehicles are contantly being tweaked, improved and tricked out. I have a workstation in my home network. Both hardware and sotfware are contently in a state of flux.

I love everything about Firefox, and as more extensions become available, I love that I can make it work EXACTLY how I want it to work.

I could leave well enough alone. I could go to the store and shell out $X for M$ X-whatever and then play games and surf the web with very little hassle. Unforunetely, even when my workstation was just stock Wintel, I accumulated piles of customizations, uber shareware trinkets, kernel and usermode tools. Some people are just end-users. Both me and my old friends still drive to work using normal cars. Both me and my old friends still use the same generic corporate PC's from Dell in the office.

The above spout was just to give background that I'm not an OS freak, nor a complete luser.

Sometimes, though, you want a little bit more. Not just safety. Not just convenice. When one of my old friends built a 1950's style kit car he included a lot of saftey features (like seatbelts) that didn't exist in a 1950's stock automobile. When I put a PC together, I like to include a lot of saftey features regardless of whether the user will be running Wintel, Lintel, something on AMD, etc - like replacing IE with Mozilla (when on Windows, of course.)

Anyway, that's my story. I would love to see an extension that spellchecked text boxes in online forms though...

And this is part of mine. Try this zillatweaks or Webforms checking for Mozilla for speling fnu.

I thought Microsoft was secretly SCO's biggest investor, at least that's what everyone else still believes.

...on opening night...

Seriously, anybody who's been to any of the 12:01am showings for movies like LotR or Star Wars knows what I'm talking about. You'll get hordes of people dressed up like Gandalf (albeit some morbidly obese variant of him) trying to hit you with a broom handle that they insist on calling a quarterstaff.

On a side note, what sort of self-respecting /.er would be wary of spoilers regarding LotR?

Damn, apparently extrans mode didn't work. Here's a functioning link. Stupid me and not previewing. It's still funny, though.

As long as >nobody does any of these things</a> the movie should be an enjoyable experience. I particularly am amused by #7 for some reason...

7. When Aragorn is crowned king, stand up and at the top of your lungs sing, "And I did it.... MY way...!"

I personally can't wait to see Tolkien's world totally trashed by hordes of power-leveling script kiddies, talking about pwning the Balrog and camping Orthanc.

I found this somewhat amusing, speaking of MMORPG + LOTR.

Funnier than this similar parody, at least.

Another one ....

(There's another one out there which is funnier, but I can't find it. My leet Google skills have failed me....)