This may be of interest to some... Peter McWilliams, who is mentioned in the MotherJones article, was found dead on June 14. Peter used marijuana to suppress the nausea that was a side-effect of his medications for AIDS and non-Hodgkins lymphoma. After being wrongfully denied access to medical marijuana by the Federal Government, he choked to death on his own vomit. Read all about it on the Libertarian Party website.
The thing is...you never see on the newspaper or on TV "Guy smokes pot, eats pizza" or "man drops acid, finds god...joins the church to help others" (not that I condone joining churches, I am an atheist, but a friend of mine dropped some acid once, and ended up deciding he disliked his life and joining a church because of it and finding "god"...much longer story than that but thats the "executive summary")
...thus proving, once again, that religion is mostly the product of hallucination.:)
I graduated from Clemson in 1998. I don't know when you were at Clemson, but in my experience they have one of the *WORST* internet connections of any major college. As I recall, their connection at the time was dual T-1's through BBN Planet, which was regarded by myself and my friends as a bargain-basement ISP. I remember comparing BBN's prices with some other major providers, and BBN was by far the cheapest. The quality of the connection reflected this cheapness. We had *GOBS* of packet loss, little available bandwidth, and ping times in the 150 ms range even to cities like Atlanta that are only about 150 miles away.
I was a member of a semi-prominent Quake clan based at Clemson U., the Fighting Tigers (TGR). Our connection was so bad, other clans would flat-out refuse to play us. We were basically HPB's, but we had to compete with LPB because we had a T-1 connection. Eventually our best players got dial-up accounts with Carolina Online, which is easily the best dial-up ISP I've ever had, and played as HPB's rather than suffer through trying to play over the Clemson network.
Hopefully the situation at Clemson has improved since my time there, but in my experience bandwidth was a precious commodity at Clemson, and if that is still the case, I can't say that I blame them for wanting to eliminate some network traffic.
Remember that much of the trial concerns Microsoft's actions before 1998. Linux's popularity has skyrocketed in the very recent past, before 1998 it was barely a blip on the horizon.
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This guy is clearly a Russian spy, no red-blooded American college student gets up at 7AM for no good reason.
This may be of interest to some... Peter McWilliams, who is mentioned in the MotherJones article, was found dead on June 14. Peter used marijuana to suppress the nausea that was a side-effect of his medications for AIDS and non-Hodgkins lymphoma. After being wrongfully denied access to medical marijuana by the Federal Government, he choked to death on his own vomit. Read all about it on the Libertarian Party website.
The thing is...you never see on the newspaper or on TV "Guy smokes pot, eats pizza" or "man drops acid, finds god...joins the church to help others" (not that I condone joining churches, I am an atheist, but a friend of mine dropped some acid once, and ended up deciding he disliked his life and joining a church because of it and finding "god"...much longer story than that but thats the "executive summary")
...thus proving, once again, that religion is mostly the product of hallucination. :)
I graduated from Clemson in 1998. I don't know when you were at Clemson, but in my experience they have one of the *WORST* internet connections of any major college. As I recall, their connection at the time was dual T-1's through BBN Planet, which was regarded by myself and my friends as a bargain-basement ISP. I remember comparing BBN's prices with some other major providers, and BBN was by far the cheapest. The quality of the connection reflected this cheapness. We had *GOBS* of packet loss, little available bandwidth, and ping times in the 150 ms range even to cities like Atlanta that are only about 150 miles away.
I was a member of a semi-prominent Quake clan based at Clemson U., the Fighting Tigers (TGR). Our connection was so bad, other clans would flat-out refuse to play us. We were basically HPB's, but we had to compete with LPB because we had a T-1 connection. Eventually our best players got dial-up accounts with Carolina Online, which is easily the best dial-up ISP I've ever had, and played as HPB's rather than suffer through trying to play over the Clemson network.
Hopefully the situation at Clemson has improved since my time there, but in my experience bandwidth was a precious commodity at Clemson, and if that is still the case, I can't say that I blame them for wanting to eliminate some network traffic.
Remember that much of the trial concerns Microsoft's actions before 1998. Linux's popularity has skyrocketed in the very recent past, before 1998 it was barely a blip on the horizon.