User: paulyche

Presidential websites

On: Reviewing the Presidential Campaign Websites

Mmmmmm

Hilary Clinton:
Too many flags

Rudy Giuliani:
Far too many flags

Mitt Romney:
Too many flags

Barack Obama:
Hint of a flag - too many flags

John McCain:
Black and white flag - too many flags

John Edwards:
No flags! :-)

Re:Not the right approach

On: What Silicon Valley Can Do For Homeland Security

The Roman Empire can be traced from the Kingdom of Rome through to the fall of the 'Byzantine' Empire in 1453. Inhabitants of the region continued to think of themselves as 'Roman' long after the capital was moved from Rome to Constantinople. The idea that the Roman/Byzantine Empire was distinct from the Classical Roman Empire is largely a fiction.

Here's a dodgy unsubstatiated source :-) Byzantine Empire

Re:Wow.

On: The NYT's OS-Restrictive Video Policies

I thought this http://www.w3.org/Consortium/ was the standard.
Why should everyone just meekly accept everything that is thrust upon them?

Re:Philosophy 101

On: ESR Says Linux Followers Should Compromise

It's also not illegal in free countries.

:-)

Re:Psssh.

On: New 'No Military Use' GPL For GPU

And if we refuse to go to war in the next few years, we'll all be speaking Arabic.

No we won't.

Re:Red Hat doesn't need to do much.

On: Red Hat Not Seeing Microsoft, Ubuntu as Threats

"you could ask them about Dune (Goddamn what?!)" Go home and read the book NOW - and don't touch your PC for a month.

Re:Another blow to the people

On: U.S. House Rejects Net Neutrality

When the war is held to be illegal people are talking about a supposed violation of international, not domestic, law.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,108915 8,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/36611 34.stm

You know - illegal in a greater global sense. After all, no country is an island...
No wait.. ...well you get the picture.