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Amen. I do feel like the recent releases have almost been done with no regard for the current ecosystem. How have none of the management commands in django-extensions been brought …

Err, the vast majority of vaccines have a colossal amount of government/corporate push even when a cursory look at the history books shows that the vast majority of catastrophic co…

While I'd understand this if the complaint was that gitorious is too complicated to setup and host, CodePlane doesn't seem to offer the rich web interface github and gitorious do. …

What a recursive failure to read the story. You accuse others of down-voting for not reading the story, and yet you seem also to have not read the story. The author admits to havin…

It's like quantum mechanics for information. You can know about something, but then you've likely gotten personally connected too. Keep your distance while trying to be informative…

I feel like T.S. Eliot knew all about this before the second world war...

Read 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' Cliched as it might seem now, it address the abstract and almost mind-destroying properties of quality as well as anything can. Sho…

Firefox, because vimperator for Chrome is still buggy and, after much learning, browsing with a mouse sucks now.

Amen! Just another troll post from PC Mag.

The article repeatedly points out that it "feels like" a cosmic conspiracy, while never actually claiming that's the case. In fact the article makes a fine point that there is no c…

How about farming? Plenty of really smart, literate people are turning to small farms. Not everything we think needs to be turned into beautiful profit. Sometimes the work we do wi…

While I too, am not sure that I agree with the position Anonymous is taking, I do feel like the fact that even you qualify the word "illegal" with "technically." And the first repl…

Subsistance farming is not obsolete, indeed it can't be. Not to shift topics dramatically, but industrial farming is not a perfect substitute for diversified subsistance farms and …

Eh, it worked for the National Socialist Party. What, too soon?

Yeah, because there all those potential terrorists are wringing their hands wondering what to do next..."Ah! The newest edition of Atlantic Monthly. This shall give me some inspira…

I like a man who spouts off about how great it is to use software builds that are (gasp!) an hour old! That's so 1337 dude! Welcome to the world of open source, douche bag. I appre…

What does this have to do with hnews? Go back to digg, or reddit, or boing...

No, but I'll start now! That's a great link. Pigs are also nature's rototillers. Instead of a cover crop, my wife and I put the pigs on the garden and let them go to town. They tur…

Fair enough, but your average t-shirt is also somewhere around SPF 10, leaving you almost completely exposed even when you feel fully clothed. It's like UV has some sort of x-ray g…

Hmmm. Unless you are just ripping the lard off the animals back, last time I checked trichinosis was the result of undercooking meat. Also, I should hope that the farmer is using s…

I'm just going to go ahead and comment here and say how much I hate newspapers trying to publish scientific information. I began raising my own pigs last year, and one of the thing…

Exactly, and while they certainly don't have to do any of that, when you have commercial developers counting on you, you will lose your community over time with a mantra of "Fuck y…

Amen. I would say this article goes a fair bit towards explaining our lack of creativity. Newsweek? Fuck it. Read Unte Reader. At least you'll get a breadth of writing styles and t…

Am I the only one reading these comments that appreciates the need for some people to settle down given that our current "nomadic" lifestyle is heavily dependent on farms? Last tim…