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jorahmormonton BYTE Interview With Richard Stallman (1986)

whoa. I wasn't, uhm, jeez. Why do you assume I was trying to insult him.

jorahmormonton BYTE Interview With Richard Stallman (1986)

BYTE: What are you going to do when you are done with the GNU system? Stallman: I'm not sure. Sometimes I think that what I'll go on to do is the same thing in other areas of software.

He's 60 this year. He was crying on a staircase this year in Spain. Someone stole his laptop.

jorahmormonton JFK's Application to Harvard

GWB's yale record and application would be good.

jorahmormonton A Linux dev who helped thousands needs help to fight cancer

$ cd kernel ; git log | egrep -i starks $

Nothing there.

It would help if they told us what his contribution actually was.

jorahmormonton Build Your Own Home Automation w/ Pusher, Twilio, and Arduino

I use Wiser Home Control to take care of those annoying left-the-AC-on cases, works on my iPhone. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHsjTdTPVnU

jorahmormonton Jonah Lehrer Resigns From The New Yorker After Making Up Quotes

I disagree. Gladwell's long standing self-disclosure is a serious analysis on his own motivations and corporate relationships. http://www.gladwell.com/disclosure.html . Claiming that he is a corporate shill seems unfair. Despite his "igonvalues" issues, I haven't seen any serious corporate bias in his works. Are you sure your own remarks aren't due to some bias that you may have?

jorahmormonton Young Gorillas Observed Dismantling Poacher Snares

I guess it can't be worse then giving them to our own Army. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00Z_haZqh60 (Pat Tillman case) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-EwReGl88o (Laveena Johnson case)

jorahmormonton Don’t Jump to Conclusions About the Killer

Slightly offtopic, I read a comment somewhere that asked what would have happened if the killer had been an Arab. It is interesting. When the killer is one of our own, we are able to quickly switch off group-think and acknowledge that the killer was insane. In contrast, when the killer is of an outgroup, we instantly assign group blame and then exact group retribution.

jorahmormonton The Terrifying Background of the Man Who Ran a CIA Assassination Unit

Reading the comments here, you wouldn't be blamed for thinking we (the side of rational thinking and intelligence) have lost. The question you should ask yourselves is whether the CIA, or even a big chunk of our government are working to protect us or working to protect their own interests. They do these things in our name. Murder civilians and call it collateral damage. They make up fake dossiers and our media swallows it whole. What have we come to? We used to be the shining city on the hill. We didn't need to invade people to "protect" ourselves.

jorahmormonton Eric Schmidt's thoughts about Pakistan

The following article by a Pakistani-Indian is a good read and explains the fundamental problem that Pakistan faces. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230491110457644...