I guess that this must just be a personal thing.
When I was a kid, I spent a few years hanging out with the local punks, going to shows, and getting smashed on 40's down by the river. I guess that when I see someone with torn cloths, holding a bottle of alcohol, I'm more likely to respect them because I used to look the same way, rather than recoil in fear.
In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique[ly illegal and unconstitutional?] CIA program designed to wring [torture] vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. For more than an hour, the Bipartisan group, which included future-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was given a virtual tour of the CIA's overseas detention sites [gulags] and the harsh techniques [torture] interrogators had devised to
Lately, with Microsoft claiming that Linux infringes on their IP, it has occurred to me that what is widely regarded as free software cannot introduce disruptive change into the world.
Science and religion are in full accord but science and faith are in complete discord.
