I think the only thing as infuriating as racial bigotry is sheer willful ignorance and Nazi-like propaganda against an entire religion exhibited in the above video. Good for the McCain supporters who confronted this nonsense. As non-believer myself, it may seem hypocritical perhaps for me to comment on this, but understanding that intolerance of one religion by the practitioner of another is why the Middle East and many parts of Asia where nearly half the world's population lives, are dangerous and seething with ethnic strife. And I cannot help it, perhaps because of my German heritage I have a genetically programmed guilt component (just kidding) that I react strongly to religious-based 'eliminationist' rhetoric.
Funny things, PCs. My $400 laptop runs circles around my $2300 Sony Vaio (2.8 GHz P4, 1GB RAM) because it is 5 years "younger." Amazing shit. I bought a little USB HDTV ATSC receiver and enjoy beautiful over-the-air HD broadcasts on my laptop... for shits and grins, I plugged it in to my Sony, and it was as if I'd asked it to solve Pi to 3 million decimal places! LOL! It did a decent, albeit, hitchy job of displaying standard definition channels, but HD? Nope. Ah, Moore's law continues, no longer is it clock cycles, but it will be again, and then it will be architecture change again (multiple cores for now), ad infinitum ... until we accidentally build SkyNet. I'm guessing in 10 years, a run-of-the-mill PC will have the computational power of some of the "supercomputers" of today. I know, not a stretch. I'm just trying to get my head around the software that will be inevitably written to bog down that much CPU/Memory horsepower, because those damn d...
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