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  1. Not "religion out of the government" on Newt Gingrich Says Free Speech May Be Forfeit · · Score: 1

    ... but government out of religion. As is completely historically evident, religion was never meant to be kept out of government in that the principles of religion could not influence lawmakers, but that the government was to stay out of the religion business.
    because religion proposes easy answers, shortcuts if you will, to get people to behave a certain way.makes no kinda sense and was not at all the reason behind the establishment clause. The reason behind the establishment clause was to keep from making people join a religion as a part of citizenship. It was the intent that people should be free to worship the God of their choice. It was NOT meant as a catch-all for the removal of Judeo-Christian influences from the public square. One only need to glance at any early American history book to see that laws were written around religious ideologies, so your notion of the founding fathers removing religion because it influenced how people acted is bunk. They built an entire country around religious beliefs. They were unwilling to force people to believe a certain way... but they still made people act a certain way.

  2. Hey MODs Back off... on Microsoft One Step From World's Greenest Company · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The parent is on topic. I actually chuckled a bit.

  3. .NET +4 hours Perl on Choosing Your Next Programming Job — Perl Or .NET? · · Score: 1

    With the 4 extra hours you will earn by not driving 120 miles each way, you can spend as much time as you want working on your Linux friendly applications (develop an oss) and still have time left over. .Net is not bad, has lots of potentials for jobs, AND you continue to be an all around programmer, not a live-in-the-basement Linux guy. When the world switches (we are starting to see this now) there will be a HUGE need for IT specialists that understand both platforms well and can build systems that make migration easier.

  4. MANAGING MONEY != CHECKBOOK REGISTER on Managing Money With Linux Apps · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I would like to budget, reconcile each month, many months, or yearly against the budget. I want to track spending, forecast spending. I would also like to track interest payments, automatically get yearly tax return values, and plan out my retirement.

    I guess someone COULD do that with an excel sheet, but it would be a crapload of work, and foolish considering other software packages exist that do it already.

    Intuit has an online version (I do not remember it as IE only). So that may be another option for the linux users who don't wear tin hats.

  5. Pay well on Transitioning From Small Shop IT To Enterprise? · · Score: 1

    Seriously, I did this. I work on a 2 person team that handled a 500 user account for a local IT services company. When I left they hired some kid out of HS with his A+ for 1/2 my salary. Nothing but troubles after that. If you pay them, they will come. Kill some of your margin by hiring good people and you will gain the respect of the CIOs you contracted to... the same people who go golfing with other CIOs and complain or praise the companies they hire.

  6. Re:Am I the only one... on School Bans 'Tag' · · Score: 1

    I did too... Was actually disappointed when I realized it wasn't.

  7. Happened to me today on Geekspeak Baffles Web Users · · Score: 1

    I hate it when people try to sound smart by trying to say what the Acronym stands for, even worse when they get it wrong. Today I was talking about ROM chips in a controller. He said. "Yea, Random Orbital Memory..." It was all I could do to stop from LMAO. n00bs.

  8. All your snakes are belong to us on Discussing a Private Buyout of Microsoft · · Score: 0, Offtopic
  9. Re:Not really on 'Stargate: SG-1' Cancelled · · Score: 1

    exactly. Now is it sad we are having this conversation... probably.

  10. Re:Not really on 'Stargate: SG-1' Cancelled · · Score: 1

    Not in that a character was vulcan, but what is happening between Vulcans, Klingons, Romulans, etc. There were so many underlying political issues that added debth to the stories. When a romulan de-cloaked in front of the Enterprise, you understood all of the back story and underlying differences between them. With voyager none of that existed. Same with Atlantis.

  11. SG1 = TNG; SGA = Voyager on 'Stargate: SG-1' Cancelled · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Too many similarities to name, but they will suffer the same fate. Voyager was disconnected from the normal species fans wanted to know about. Atlantis is the same. Fans want to follow what is happening here on earth and the surrounding systems not what is happening to some far off land. Some fans will come around just like Voyager fans did, but a major part of the Star Gate culture will die just like it did when TNG ended.

  12. Re:And yet, here in the US... on $100 Laptop Takes Flight in Thailand · · Score: 1

    The answer is thin clients with right restricted features like IM to the teacher but not other students, teacher controlled desktops, etc. You can easily force a molecule to be on the screen during your lesson with all other apps disabled, then allow the student to IM during a test to the teacher. These are the types of systems that we should have in US schools IMHO.

  13. Re:Not in Germany on Another Linux PDA to Challenge the Nokia 770 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    forgive the parent for his self-absorbed, us-centric, you-need-some-american-on-your-sign mentality.

  14. QWERTZ IS NOT A TYPO on Another Linux PDA to Challenge the Nokia 770 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Its German... look at the pics.

  15. Re:"No. God, no." on Is Windows Vista Ready? 'No. God, no.' · · Score: 1

    Or "Will it run on my current hardware?"

  16. Answered my own question: on Spyware Disguises Itself as Firefox Extension · · Score: 1



    The mozillazine site says: "Within Firefox, the trojan pretends to be the legitimate numberedlinks extension."

    Much clearer. and sux to be them.

  17. Is numberedlinks legit? on Spyware Disguises Itself as Firefox Extension · · Score: 1

    The article is not clear. If not, get it off the Moz site. If so, sux to be them.

  18. Re:Illegal Actions? on President Bush Blocks NSA Wireless Tapping Probe · · Score: 1

    Innocent until proven guilty... The GP is right... to call these activities illegal without an investigation is jumping the gun a bit.

  19. Re:First Post! on Problems at the W3C · · Score: 3, Informative
  20. who are loath or who loath on Google Releases Google Browser Sync Extension · · Score: 1

    Loath is an adjective meaning "unwilling." It ends with a hard th and rhymes with growth or both.

    Loathe is a verb meaning "to hate intensely." It ends with a soft th like the sound in smooth or breathe.

    http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000238.htm

  21. It's true... on Not Your Daddy's IT Force Anymore · · Score: 1

    NSF and IT jobs go hand in hand. At least that's what Wachovia keeps saying.

  22. Then they can put up some EzPass readers on Proposal to Implant RFID Chips in Immigrants · · Score: 1

    Just toll them as they come and go.

  23. Reply on More Details of the NSA's Social Network Analysis · · Score: 1

    Tell Great Aunt Zelda that the recover should take 3 months. Once the operation is complete, she should make release another statement about the effectiveness of the operation.

  24. Re:It amazes me too on First Photos of MIT $100 Laptop · · Score: 1

    According to the article, they will in Mass.

  25. Thanks on First Photos of MIT $100 Laptop · · Score: 1

    Of all the comments so far, I like yours the best, so I will respond here.

    It makes a lot of sense for countries that need education for this project. I can defintely see the benefits to it. You are right that handouts only make a system worse.

    Thanks for you replies.