While I'm certainly a proponent of space exploration, and there's nothing I would like better that to kick back with a nice glass of Romulan brandy, it's clear to me that we do indeed have our priorities in quite the odd order. In Phoenix alone, over the last several days they have pulled the torso (just the torso) of a man out of a dumpster, discovered the skeletal remians of an infant in the desert, sentenced a woman to a bazillion years in prison for beating up a rather tiny set of quadruplets, as well as various other atrocities. While we're losing expensive toys in the bowels of space and making box office abortions like "Waterworld", our society is declining to a point that will soon rival the decline of the Roman empire. I wonder where our priorities really lie, as I watch them close down shelters, treatment centers, and youth hostels due to lack of funding. Oh, and did I mention that we lost our little car in space...?
Well, I hate to break it to you, but bitching about bitching is bitching, so we have to ask ourselves at exactly what level of communication do we wish to convey our arguments? And, yes, there are a lot of people in the Linux world that seem to think that they're Green Berets now, but I feel that it's not really all that fair to lump us all together. Hey, life goes on, though. Take this or leave it, and I'll keep using Linux and taking a shallow approach to all this crap. Ciao.
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While I'm certainly a proponent of space exploration, and there's nothing I would like better that to kick back with a nice glass of Romulan brandy, it's clear to me that we do indeed have our priorities in quite the odd order. In Phoenix alone, over the last several days they have pulled the torso (just the torso) of a man out of a dumpster, discovered the skeletal remians of an infant in the desert, sentenced a woman to a bazillion years in prison for beating up a rather tiny set of quadruplets, as well as various other atrocities. While we're losing expensive toys in the bowels of space and making box office abortions like "Waterworld", our society is declining to a point that will soon rival the decline of the Roman empire. I wonder where our priorities really lie, as I watch them close down shelters, treatment centers, and youth hostels due to lack of funding. Oh, and did I mention that we lost our little car in space...?
Well, I hate to break it to you, but bitching about bitching is bitching, so we have to ask ourselves at exactly what level of communication do we wish to convey our arguments? And, yes, there are a lot of people in the Linux world that seem to think that they're Green Berets now, but I feel that it's not really all that fair to lump us all together. Hey, life goes on, though. Take this or leave it, and I'll keep using Linux and taking a shallow approach to all this crap. Ciao.