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Linus Interviewed
a9db0 writes "There is a somewhat low-content interview with Linus here in the Seattle Times about his move to Portland. It does have a couple of Linus classic one-liners."
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You are fawning at the mouth.
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Did that other exception request get anywhere - the one where the election would be postponed "in case of terrorist activity"?? It was a couple of months ago, and I don't think I've heard it repeated since.
"To say that everyone should have a better future isn't the American Dream, its more, IMHO, of the Communist Dream."
No it's the dream of Chirst.
evil is as evil does
One concern I see with this is that if and when such an amendment proposal comes up for vote (and nothing short of an amendment can do it), everyone will know for whom the amendment is being proposed. It will be "This is the Arnie for President amendment" in most people's minds, and thus their decision will be based on their political leanings for or against Arnold (or whomever this ends up being for if it ever happens).
I don't like the idea of a constitutional amendment being determined based only on how it would affect one specific temporary case. It should be determined based on whether or not it is appropriate for all generic instances. For this case, that just isn't going to happen."
My personal take on it is that the duration of citizenship should be fairly long (to make darn sure the candidate sees the US as being "home", and not just "where I'm living for now"), but that birth here should not be mandatory anymore. In today's changing world, waiting an entire generation for eligibility "feels" longer than it did when the Constitution was written. Schwarzenegger has, in my opinion, been a US citizen long enough to be allowed to run. I still wouldn't ever vote for him, but in the interest of fair play that shouldn't influence my opinion on whether or not he should be eligible.
I'd like to see him be allowed to make the attempt, and then be voted down, rather than see him not be allowed to try.
Don't label something "offtopic" unless you know the topic well enough to tell what's on topic.
True many of the Gnome/KDE apps are not up to their MacOS X or Windows equivalents. I personally use a mix of OS X and linux, but they are getting better fast. 4 years ago MySQL was not really production ready and now its damn good. The thing is most complex code takes time to mature, which many of the linux apps just haven't had yet.
Erlang Developer and podcaster
Bored moderators visit stories in which they have no interest, because they are not allowed to moderate stories in which they comment. When was the last time you attended a meeting of a social group and didn't say anything?
It's a big challenge designing a better moderation system. Maybe everyone should be allowed to moderate every comment, all the time.
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Government data compares Democrat and Republican economics.
I was pronouncing his name wrong this WHOLE DAMN TIME! FUCK!!!!!!!!