Heh - I did that with a CVS card (CVS is a drug store in this case, not the versioning system). Every time I use it, my receipt reminds me that my information is "incomplete" and tells me to go to their webpage and update the account.
What works really well is to try and take advantage of a loyalty-card holder sale and act rushed. So they'll give you the card and tell you to give them the application later. Just never hand in the application, and you're all set.:)
(Of course, in my case, it's not that I'm paranoid, it's that I don't want the ****ing advertising "newsletter subscription" that comes with the card.)
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Unofficially (or maybe officially, what do I know?) Mozilla stands for "Mosaic Killer." The two were different.
Yep. That's why Mozilla and Firefox list themselves as "Mozilla 5.0" in their user-agent string. Both helpfully list their full user-agent string they use in their About box.
Firefox 1.0: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Mozilla 1.8a4: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040927
Obviously the platform identifier will vary, but you get the idea. Netscape 4.0 called itself Mozilla/4.0.
Originally "Mozilla" was the project codename for what would become known as "Netscape." Just like Windows XP was called "Whistler" and the next version of Windows is called "Longhorn," Netscape was called "Mozilla."
This browser just loves the confusing names.
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Well, I've installed it on four machines now (my one at home and three at work), and I haven't had any problems with it. All four machines came up and worked as expected.
About the only change I noticed was that the Security Center was yelling at me on my home machine for not having virus protection, a firewall, and not having automatic updates installed. So I disabled those alerts. (I have my reasons for not using any of that on my home machine - the biggest one being that it's behind an actual firewall that blocks all incoming connections.)
Since I don't use IE and instead use Firefox on all four machines, I haven't noticed any real change with IE yet. About the only thing I noticed was that it apparently doesn't run JavaScript on local HTML files without prompting first, which is kind of weird. Oh, and it warns you before running programs you've downloaded off the Internet, even if you don't run them through the Download dialog.
So, ultimately: no problems, yet, but no real improvements that I've noticed. Granted, most of the improvements were supposed to be added security, so it's not like I'd magically notice my box was more secure. They just kind of run like they've always run.
Ever played a Microsoft game, say Dungeon Siege? Admin rights are not required, and all per-user stuff (save games, settings, etc) go in your own file area (eg C:\Documents and Settings\username\...)
Along those lines, ever played a Microsoft game, say Age of Mythology (or maybe it was Age of Empires II)? Admin rights required, it refuses to run if you're not Admin because it checks - not due to permission failures, per-user saves all to the program directory (C:\Program Files)...
I need to recheck with Age of Mythology, but I know Age of Empires and Age of Empires II both required Admin privileges and explicitly bombed if you weren't. It was slightly annoying. A lot of companies have gotten better, but unfortunately, not all quite yet.
Why do we always come back to this movie? Other than a few funny sequences and lines, it's basically boring. Yeah, I said it, but we're all thinking it!
I agree. Just watch the first 20 minutes or so. After that it stops being really funny and just kind of drones on for a bit. The ending isn't really that great, either.
But the first 20 minutes or so are really great. The only thing is I don't think you could really fill a movie with office humor, eventually that would get dull too since nothing would change. Unfortunately for Office Space, the plot they decided to use was subpar at best.
That's contested, though. Most people agree that Bush did indeed serve in the Reserves. Some people contest this, but they haven't been able to offer up any proof. (On either side.)
There's an MP3 out there somewhere where John Kerry says "Do I consider myself a war criminal? Yes." That's pretty black-and-white.
It's hard not to come to the conclusion that the consensus on slashdot is that infringing the GPL = bad, infringing movie/music/etc copyright = okay.
To be fair (and I do agree with you, by the way), the general view is usually closer to "infringing copyright for profit = bad, infringing copyright for personal use = good." So it's not soley a GPL vs Big Buisness thing.
I'm sure that if some company out there ripped of Britnee Speares and started trying to sell her CDs as their own, most Slashdotters would agree that's a bad thing. (And not just because Britnee Speares music is awful.)
Can't say about any previous elections or Kennedy, but Kerry got elected to his current term because he ran unopposed. Kinda hard to elect someone else when no one is running against Kerry.
Hopefully next election the Republicans will run someone against Kerry (but I doubt it) because I really want to see him out of office. (Why this state elected an admited war criminal in the first place is beyond me, but - oh well, I couldn't vote at the time.)
I expect their line of reasoning was to ensure people would "play fair" and be able to close the download program once the download completed. After all, why should the "downloader" stay open once you've gotten the file?
If the the process is so open, what has happened with Blackboxvoting.orgs FOIA request? As a matter of fact, what happened the blackboxvoting.org today?
Um... enlighten me. What happened to blackboxvoting.org today? Site appears to be up and the last news post was yesterday. What does that have to do with the process being open?
Oh, that gave me a good laugh. It'd be nice, wouldn't it?
What would be nicer is if Square actually gave two shits about their customers and actually did something about it, considering it violates the terms of service and all. Then again, they don't do anything about people MPKing or scamming, so why should they do anything about this?
That's kind of my point - if a Democrat is going to complain that Gore won the popular vote but lost the election, it would be hypocritical to then go and say that Kerry should have won the election based on the electoral college.
Not to mention that all the non-partisan recounts came to the same conclusion: Bush won Florida, fair and square.
Do you have any links that aren't to obviously partisan sites? (Or dubious statistics - the "Surprising Florida Presidential Election Results" doesn't count because almost all pre-election polls were wrong in the demographics that actually voted. The method they used to determine "expected votes" is highly suspect. Note too that the Infoworld article doesn't convince me in the slightest that the outcome of the election was ultimately effected, so don't try and call that one out as being non-partisan proof.)
Most people I've talked with and most results I've seen suggest that (barring massive voter fraud), Kerry and the Democrats lost that election. Fairly. It appears that the Republicans were more effective at getting their voters out than the Democrats. I've yet to see anything that would suggest that this wasn't the case.
Most of the stories you linked to seem to be assuming that all the votes that weren't counted were for Kerry. I highly doubt that this is really the case. It really sounds just like "sour grapes." But I'd be interested in seeing actual evidence and not just wild speculation.
However, it's really way too early for anyone to really have such evidence - which makes such whining now seem to be mostly sour grapes. If non-partisan groups (like blackboxvoting.org claims to be) looking at the election ever find anything - then I might be swayed. As it stands right now, I think Bush was clearly the rightful winner.
(It's worth noting that even if those articles were right and Kerry won Ohio - he still lost the popular vote. And that's the vote that matters, right?)
Roses are #FF0000, violets are #0000FF, all my base are belong to you
Violets are closer to #8000FF.
I suppose I should try and move ontopic-ish and link to the original chart which is credited at the bottom of the image, and show that it links to this set of IQ data which lists Mississippi's average IQ as 95, not 85.
It should also be noted that these are based on school children's tests (grades 4, 8, and 10 if I'm not mistaken) and not on actual voters.
The best part is: "The IQ numbers were originally attributed to the book "IQ and the Wealth of Nations", though they do not appear in the current edition." In other words, the numbers in that chart are basically unverifiable.
Depends on what you're using. I personally would rather use wires for things that aren't moving - for example, monitors, keyboard, printers, scanners, and speakers.
For things that are frequently moving, like a game pad or a mouse, wireless can be much more useful.
My current setup at home is a wired USB keyboard and a wireless USB mouse. Everything else is currently wired directly to the computer. Yeah, there's a giant mess of cables behind the desk. But who cares? It's behind the desk. It's not like it's running across my room or something. (And, of course, one of the mess of wires is the mouse's receiver station. So ultimately there's still a mess back there.)
For something like wireless speakers, I can't imageine they would be useful for anything except the rear satelite speakers. In that one case, the advantage of not having to run a wire from the computer to the rear satelite speakers might be enough. However, I can't really invision a setup where you'd want rear satelite speakers off your PC where an actual home theater solution wouldn't be a better alternative. (Minus cost, in which case, why bother with surround sound anyway?)
Here's a hint: if people want to replay the same content from a different point of view, they can
make a new character without having their old one killed off.
Along that line, I like the way FFXI allows you to switch your class, effectively changing back to an earlier level. You get the benefits of a new character (minus the ability to change your race, for obvious reasons), on your existing character, without having to pay extra for another character or having to lose your current character. It's like starting the game again, but you can always revert to your higher level job.
Which isn't to say the job system is perfect, but it offers a solution to the "problem" of allowing people to experience something different from the start again.
And I dislike the idea of permadeath for a wide variety of reasons. The biggest are that it's far too easy to die for reasons outside of your control. For example, there's nothing quite like walking across the Planes of Death (or whatever) and all of a sudden seeing the dreaded "Connection to Server Lost" message. So you log back in, to discover that you are now standing in the middle of a group of Greater Demons, who proceed to pulp you.
Then, of course, there are griefers. Players who get the Evil Scorpion of Doom to chase them right next to your group, and then use their Teleport ability to leave. All of a sudden, you've got one nasty bug slaughtering you.
There are other examples, but arguably those are "bugs" that can be worked around. (Like when I had a Sneak buff on that prevented enemies from "detecting" me so they wouldn't start attacking me. Then I disconnected, which caused this buff to be lost. Logged on next to an enemy that proceeded to instantly attack me. Really annoying.)
I think the general theory was that Badnarik votes would have gone to Bush if Badnarik wasn't running, and Nader votes would have gone to Kerry if Nader wasn't running.
I don't know how true that is, but I expect that's why you aren't hearing about the "Badnarik factor."
Yeah, um, she has - let's see - a 0% chance of winning.
It's my personal belief that the Democratic Party doesn't actually want to win anything. That's the only explanation as to why they would nominate Kerry I can think of. If anything, Kerry is likely to have been worse than Bush. I do have to congratulate Kerry on being a uniter, though - nominating Kerry probably assured Bush's victory!
Nominating Hillary would assure the Republican canidate's victory in 2008, too.
I got my copy for $15, including shipping. As far as I can tell, it's a 100% legit copy. It could have been an overstock or something, bringing the price down. Prices on merchandise I can verify "normal" prices on seem to be about right from the site I bought from.
I'm surprised no one's given a link to his (English) homepage yet. He's popular enough that Square-Enix's homepage contains it as one of nine navigational links on the top of their page! (His Japanese site is, not surprisingly, far more up to date.)
If you're interested in purchasing the disc, I would highly suggest using Froogle. You can get it for quite a bit cheaper than the $20 people have been linking to.
Now for my brief review:
If you aren't into Final Fantasy and Nobuo Uematsu's music, the disc is nothing special. It sounds like "80's synth" music. Most of the music has no meaning unless you can tie it in with the game when it played, so if you haven't played the games that go along with the music it's nothing special. If you are into Final Fantasy music, though, this disc is excellent.
If you have the complete Final Fantasy soundtrack for every Final Fantasy from I to XI (guilty, excluding X-2), then you should go get this disc. It's worth the money, and you'll enjoy every track. (Except, possibly, Dancing Mad. It's long and practically straight from the game.)
If not - then it's probably not worth it.
(Also, there are previews for the second disc on his Japanese site. Thankfully the site is half-English.:) Note that they're webpage doesn't return proper MIME types for the Windows Media files if you're using Firefox.)
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Never in US history has a president tried to limit the rights of people.
You must have missed that whole "Prohibition" thing, huh? There are other examples, too, although people would probably write them off as "wartime necessities." Which, come to think of it, you can do with this, too!
Although I'm not sure if you were expecting that to be taken seriously or not or just as an "example" of how things could be. Also note that he's not "limiting the right of gay people to get married" because, arguably, they never had that right.
(If you want to get into personal views, I think he should just remove "marriage" from all our laws and replace it with "civil unions" or something. So you don't get a marriage license from the town clerk, you get a civil union license or something. Separate church and state, that kind of thing.)
Yep. Massachusetts resident who's voting third party for basically the same reason. Except I'm going to go Green and vote David Cobb. Of course, I don't agree with everything they stand for, either.:)
We produce Gentoo Linux, a special flavor of Linux that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need. Extreme configurability, performance and a top-notch user and developer community are all hallmarks of the Gentoo experience.
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Thus, Enoch was born. Daniel wanted Enoch to be a blazingly fast distro with capabilities to completely automate the package creation and upgrading process.... Over a period of time, as Enoch started improving, they felt that it needed a new name. They called it Gentoo Linux.
They seem to have removed this, but the name "Gentoo" comes from the factoid that Gentoo penguins are the fastest swimming penguins.
They seem to have revised history, but originally, Gentoo was "all about performance."
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Heh - I did that with a CVS card (CVS is a drug store in this case, not the versioning system). Every time I use it, my receipt reminds me that my information is "incomplete" and tells me to go to their webpage and update the account.
What works really well is to try and take advantage of a loyalty-card holder sale and act rushed. So they'll give you the card and tell you to give them the application later. Just never hand in the application, and you're all set. :)
(Of course, in my case, it's not that I'm paranoid, it's that I don't want the ****ing advertising "newsletter subscription" that comes with the card.)
Unofficially (or maybe officially, what do I know?) Mozilla stands for "Mosaic Killer." The two were different.
Yep. That's why Mozilla and Firefox list themselves as "Mozilla 5.0" in their user-agent string. Both helpfully list their full user-agent string they use in their About box.
Firefox 1.0: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Mozilla 1.8a4: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040927
Obviously the platform identifier will vary, but you get the idea. Netscape 4.0 called itself Mozilla/4.0.
Originally "Mozilla" was the project codename for what would become known as "Netscape." Just like Windows XP was called "Whistler" and the next version of Windows is called "Longhorn," Netscape was called "Mozilla."
This browser just loves the confusing names.
Well, I've installed it on four machines now (my one at home and three at work), and I haven't had any problems with it. All four machines came up and worked as expected.
About the only change I noticed was that the Security Center was yelling at me on my home machine for not having virus protection, a firewall, and not having automatic updates installed. So I disabled those alerts. (I have my reasons for not using any of that on my home machine - the biggest one being that it's behind an actual firewall that blocks all incoming connections.)
Since I don't use IE and instead use Firefox on all four machines, I haven't noticed any real change with IE yet. About the only thing I noticed was that it apparently doesn't run JavaScript on local HTML files without prompting first, which is kind of weird. Oh, and it warns you before running programs you've downloaded off the Internet, even if you don't run them through the Download dialog.
So, ultimately: no problems, yet, but no real improvements that I've noticed. Granted, most of the improvements were supposed to be added security, so it's not like I'd magically notice my box was more secure. They just kind of run like they've always run.
Ever played a Microsoft game, say Dungeon Siege? Admin rights are not required, and all per-user stuff (save games, settings, etc) go in your own file area (eg C:\Documents and Settings\username\...)
Along those lines, ever played a Microsoft game, say Age of Mythology (or maybe it was Age of Empires II)? Admin rights required, it refuses to run if you're not Admin because it checks - not due to permission failures, per-user saves all to the program directory (C:\Program Files)...
I need to recheck with Age of Mythology, but I know Age of Empires and Age of Empires II both required Admin privileges and explicitly bombed if you weren't. It was slightly annoying. A lot of companies have gotten better, but unfortunately, not all quite yet.
Why do we always come back to this movie? Other than a few funny sequences and lines, it's basically boring. Yeah, I said it, but we're all thinking it!
I agree. Just watch the first 20 minutes or so. After that it stops being really funny and just kind of drones on for a bit. The ending isn't really that great, either.
But the first 20 minutes or so are really great. The only thing is I don't think you could really fill a movie with office humor, eventually that would get dull too since nothing would change. Unfortunately for Office Space, the plot they decided to use was subpar at best.
That's contested, though. Most people agree that Bush did indeed serve in the Reserves. Some people contest this, but they haven't been able to offer up any proof. (On either side.)
There's an MP3 out there somewhere where John Kerry says "Do I consider myself a war criminal? Yes." That's pretty black-and-white.
It's hard not to come to the conclusion that the consensus on slashdot is that infringing the GPL = bad, infringing movie/music/etc copyright = okay.
To be fair (and I do agree with you, by the way), the general view is usually closer to "infringing copyright for profit = bad, infringing copyright for personal use = good." So it's not soley a GPL vs Big Buisness thing.
I'm sure that if some company out there ripped of Britnee Speares and started trying to sell her CDs as their own, most Slashdotters would agree that's a bad thing. (And not just because Britnee Speares music is awful.)
Can't say about any previous elections or Kennedy, but Kerry got elected to his current term because he ran unopposed. Kinda hard to elect someone else when no one is running against Kerry.
Hopefully next election the Republicans will run someone against Kerry (but I doubt it) because I really want to see him out of office. (Why this state elected an admited war criminal in the first place is beyond me, but - oh well, I couldn't vote at the time.)
I expect their line of reasoning was to ensure people would "play fair" and be able to close the download program once the download completed. After all, why should the "downloader" stay open once you've gotten the file?
If the the process is so open, what has happened with Blackboxvoting.orgs FOIA request? As a matter of fact, what happened the blackboxvoting.org today?
Um... enlighten me. What happened to blackboxvoting.org today? Site appears to be up and the last news post was yesterday. What does that have to do with the process being open?
Hah! Hahahahaha!
Oh, that gave me a good laugh. It'd be nice, wouldn't it?
What would be nicer is if Square actually gave two shits about their customers and actually did something about it, considering it violates the terms of service and all. Then again, they don't do anything about people MPKing or scamming, so why should they do anything about this?
But if you dare to go AFK while fishing...
That's kind of my point - if a Democrat is going to complain that Gore won the popular vote but lost the election, it would be hypocritical to then go and say that Kerry should have won the election based on the electoral college.
Not to mention that all the non-partisan recounts came to the same conclusion: Bush won Florida, fair and square.
Do you have any links that aren't to obviously partisan sites? (Or dubious statistics - the "Surprising Florida Presidential Election Results" doesn't count because almost all pre-election polls were wrong in the demographics that actually voted. The method they used to determine "expected votes" is highly suspect. Note too that the Infoworld article doesn't convince me in the slightest that the outcome of the election was ultimately effected, so don't try and call that one out as being non-partisan proof.)
Most people I've talked with and most results I've seen suggest that (barring massive voter fraud), Kerry and the Democrats lost that election. Fairly. It appears that the Republicans were more effective at getting their voters out than the Democrats. I've yet to see anything that would suggest that this wasn't the case.
Most of the stories you linked to seem to be assuming that all the votes that weren't counted were for Kerry. I highly doubt that this is really the case. It really sounds just like "sour grapes." But I'd be interested in seeing actual evidence and not just wild speculation.
However, it's really way too early for anyone to really have such evidence - which makes such whining now seem to be mostly sour grapes. If non-partisan groups (like blackboxvoting.org claims to be) looking at the election ever find anything - then I might be swayed. As it stands right now, I think Bush was clearly the rightful winner.
(It's worth noting that even if those articles were right and Kerry won Ohio - he still lost the popular vote. And that's the vote that matters, right?)
Roses are #FF0000, violets are #0000FF, all my base are belong to you
Violets are closer to #8000FF.
I suppose I should try and move ontopic-ish and link to the original chart which is credited at the bottom of the image, and show that it links to this set of IQ data which lists Mississippi's average IQ as 95, not 85.
It should also be noted that these are based on school children's tests (grades 4, 8, and 10 if I'm not mistaken) and not on actual voters.
The best part is: "The IQ numbers were originally attributed to the book "IQ and the Wealth of Nations", though they do not appear in the current edition." In other words, the numbers in that chart are basically unverifiable.
Depends on what you're using. I personally would rather use wires for things that aren't moving - for example, monitors, keyboard, printers, scanners, and speakers.
For things that are frequently moving, like a game pad or a mouse, wireless can be much more useful.
My current setup at home is a wired USB keyboard and a wireless USB mouse. Everything else is currently wired directly to the computer. Yeah, there's a giant mess of cables behind the desk. But who cares? It's behind the desk. It's not like it's running across my room or something. (And, of course, one of the mess of wires is the mouse's receiver station. So ultimately there's still a mess back there.)
For something like wireless speakers, I can't imageine they would be useful for anything except the rear satelite speakers. In that one case, the advantage of not having to run a wire from the computer to the rear satelite speakers might be enough. However, I can't really invision a setup where you'd want rear satelite speakers off your PC where an actual home theater solution wouldn't be a better alternative. (Minus cost, in which case, why bother with surround sound anyway?)
We have games like that already. They're called "First Person Shooters."
Along that line, I like the way FFXI allows you to switch your class, effectively changing back to an earlier level. You get the benefits of a new character (minus the ability to change your race, for obvious reasons), on your existing character, without having to pay extra for another character or having to lose your current character. It's like starting the game again, but you can always revert to your higher level job.
Which isn't to say the job system is perfect, but it offers a solution to the "problem" of allowing people to experience something different from the start again.
And I dislike the idea of permadeath for a wide variety of reasons. The biggest are that it's far too easy to die for reasons outside of your control. For example, there's nothing quite like walking across the Planes of Death (or whatever) and all of a sudden seeing the dreaded "Connection to Server Lost" message. So you log back in, to discover that you are now standing in the middle of a group of Greater Demons, who proceed to pulp you.
Then, of course, there are griefers. Players who get the Evil Scorpion of Doom to chase them right next to your group, and then use their Teleport ability to leave. All of a sudden, you've got one nasty bug slaughtering you.
There are other examples, but arguably those are "bugs" that can be worked around. (Like when I had a Sneak buff on that prevented enemies from "detecting" me so they wouldn't start attacking me. Then I disconnected, which caused this buff to be lost. Logged on next to an enemy that proceeded to instantly attack me. Really annoying.)
I think the general theory was that Badnarik votes would have gone to Bush if Badnarik wasn't running, and Nader votes would have gone to Kerry if Nader wasn't running.
I don't know how true that is, but I expect that's why you aren't hearing about the "Badnarik factor."
Yeah, um, she has - let's see - a 0% chance of winning.
It's my personal belief that the Democratic Party doesn't actually want to win anything. That's the only explanation as to why they would nominate Kerry I can think of. If anything, Kerry is likely to have been worse than Bush. I do have to congratulate Kerry on being a uniter, though - nominating Kerry probably assured Bush's victory!
Nominating Hillary would assure the Republican canidate's victory in 2008, too.
I got my copy for $15, including shipping. As far as I can tell, it's a 100% legit copy. It could have been an overstock or something, bringing the price down. Prices on merchandise I can verify "normal" prices on seem to be about right from the site I bought from.
I'm surprised no one's given a link to his (English) homepage yet. He's popular enough that Square-Enix's homepage contains it as one of nine navigational links on the top of their page! (His Japanese site is, not surprisingly, far more up to date.)
His site includes an English webpage for the Black Mages with more information, including two official samples (requires Flash).
If you're interested in purchasing the disc, I would highly suggest using Froogle. You can get it for quite a bit cheaper than the $20 people have been linking to.
Now for my brief review:
If you aren't into Final Fantasy and Nobuo Uematsu's music, the disc is nothing special. It sounds like "80's synth" music. Most of the music has no meaning unless you can tie it in with the game when it played, so if you haven't played the games that go along with the music it's nothing special. If you are into Final Fantasy music, though, this disc is excellent.
If you have the complete Final Fantasy soundtrack for every Final Fantasy from I to XI (guilty, excluding X-2), then you should go get this disc. It's worth the money, and you'll enjoy every track. (Except, possibly, Dancing Mad. It's long and practically straight from the game.)
If not - then it's probably not worth it.
(Also, there are previews for the second disc on his Japanese site. Thankfully the site is half-English. :) Note that they're webpage doesn't return proper MIME types for the Windows Media files if you're using Firefox.)
Never in US history has a president tried to limit the rights of people.
You must have missed that whole "Prohibition" thing, huh? There are other examples, too, although people would probably write them off as "wartime necessities." Which, come to think of it, you can do with this, too!
Although I'm not sure if you were expecting that to be taken seriously or not or just as an "example" of how things could be. Also note that he's not "limiting the right of gay people to get married" because, arguably, they never had that right.
(If you want to get into personal views, I think he should just remove "marriage" from all our laws and replace it with "civil unions" or something. So you don't get a marriage license from the town clerk, you get a civil union license or something. Separate church and state, that kind of thing.)
Yep. Massachusetts resident who's voting third party for basically the same reason. Except I'm going to go Green and vote David Cobb. Of course, I don't agree with everything they stand for, either. :)
From About Gentoo:
They seem to have removed this, but the name "Gentoo" comes from the factoid that Gentoo penguins are the fastest swimming penguins.
They seem to have revised history, but originally, Gentoo was "all about performance."