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The ones for < $890 are running NetBurst Xeons ... which means, at the youngest, they're nearly 4 1/2 years old.
The one at $890 uses a Xeon 5120 which at least gets you into the Core Xeon era, but you're still looking at a more than 4 year old processor.
If you are going to cheap-out, at least do yourself a favor and buy something low-end-but-new from somewhere like Dell. You can pick up a new PowerEdge T110 from Dell for $400 which comes with a only-released-a-year-ago Xeon X3430 which is going to be about 3 times faster than that Xeon 5120. Plus you're going to have a faster FSB, memory, drives, networking, modern interface to upgrade with, etc.
If you're looking at spending $1k/yr for colocating your server, make it worth it by co-loc-ing a server that's not 5 years old.
You seem to assert that those two statements: a.) "research about GLBTQ populations asserts ... orientation is ... a state of being" and b.) "[Keeton] will not affirm the morality of those behaviors" are contradictory.
Are they?
Does psychological research dictate morality? That seems to be what you're saying.
What about other behaviors society more consistently deems as immoral, like drunkenness? If some day the "psychological research about alcoholic populations asserts that that propensity to drink in excess is not a lifestyle or choice, but a state of being", would that suddenly make drunkenness moral?
Do you truly believe morality comes from the dictates of psychological research?
But, at the end of the day, aren't said expenditures just SPEECH? It's not like corporate entities have a vote (and while they can, now, post-Citizens-United, endorse a specific candidate, they still can't give money directly to a candidate). So, they are simply putting their point of there for those who actually can vote to consider.
I struggle to see what exactly is so wrong with that?
And, consideration #2: Wouldn't a better way to keep corporate/business influence out of Washington D.C. be to reign back in the overwhelming influence the Federal Gov't has? When you have FedEx and UPS jockeying over who can better us the government to screw the other over, something's gone awry, but it's not due to corporate speech.
And the final concern, what about small organized groups, that might, like, want to put together a movie about a candidate, which express some sort of opinnion about said candidate, and sell/distribute/advertise that movie 60 days before said candidate's election?
To which I'll only add that Thomas Geoghegan embarrasses himself as a lawyer with his utter ignorance of Article 2, Section 5, Clause 2 of the Constitution.
http://www.cato.org/dailypodcast/podcast-archive.php?podcast...