RMS apologizes in his statement, directly.

The FSF isn’t hiring him for his public speaking skills or his social graces.

It is possible for someone to be good at his/her job and have the social graces of a dead cat. If you can not understand or accept this, then take a long hard look in the mirror, because chances are all aspects of your character are not perfect either.

This trend of zero-tolerance (even after an unsolicited apology) is fascinating given that the primary argument from these individuals/groups is for tolerance and mutual respect...

As in Hieronymus, with the "shouldered on the pocketbooks" clause (rolls eyes).

There must be some seriously fine wine flowing somewhere, today.

First of all, congrats on focusing on life outside of computers. Good on you.

Next, to answer your question. How about liquidwar?

Another (highly upstream) impediment to combat effectiveness is a change of attitude away from combat-based resolution. O, to have hackers so skilled, from any nation, that yang may cede to yin, at least for a few years, in our lifetimes...

(end lament)

that's a little over 909 kilos.

remember your audience!
oop ack, snort!

First they "As-A-Service"ed the search and I did not speak out,
for I was not a search specialist.

Then they AASed the aggregation and I did not speak out,
for I was not an aggregation specialist.

Then they AASed the compiler, ...

Then they AASed the debugger, ...

Then they AASed the programmer, ...

They they AASed the algorithmist, ...

Then they AASed the thinker, ...

Then they AASed the lover, ...

Then they programmed us remaining robots to never speak out again.

This is not a discovery; making a model is part of the process, true (forming a hypothesis), but there is no validation. Anyone can poke a few formulas into a spreadsheet and call themselves scientists, otherwise.

Furthermore, doesn't the subject matter have something to do with the maleability (or commitedness) of the individuals? How is that addressed in the study?

Kind of opposite of "anonymous coward" is the "authenticated coward", which is what this "culture of restraint" will encourage. You are someone only if you don't say anything. Anyone who says something (not officially condoned) is a persona non grata.

Yuck! Someone tag this Do Not Want, please.

Exsqueeze me, but Emacs is not on that list.

VISA: "Done! Would you like us to destroy their credit rating and kidnap their dog as well?"

USGOV: No need, we have a seal team for that.

Diplomacy requires lots of hand-shaking, true.

But this?

that is all.

The dude was caught in the act. I think "suspect" is more of the same newspeak we hear more and more. V.annoying.

WTF, 1.5 months after the U.S. change of guard and we're already recycling Enron?

"The brain is nothing like a man-made computer."

That's because for most people, the brain is woman-grown.
Thanks, Mom!

(-1, tearjerker :-P)