"to ensure that there is still a consistent and open production build path for those who are not yet ready to invest in the full services offered by SpringSource" - Dave Johnson
“Sarah Palin is awful, just awful. At first I thought she was merely unqualified to be Vice President of the United States. Now I think she is unsuited to even be the Governor of Alaska.”
"While we respect the strongly-held beliefs that people have on both sides of this argument, we see this fundamentally as an issue of equality. We hope that California voters will vote no on Proposition 8 -- we should not eliminate anyone's fundamental rights, whatever their sexuality, to marry the person they love." -- Cheers to Sergey and Google for speaking out on this issue. This is an example of what makes Google such a unique and wonderful company. - Christopher Sacca
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By the way, my buddy Blake built this fun site where you can make a button expressing your view on Prop 8 by displaying how many years you have been in a committed relationship (any relationship): http://noon8button.com/ - Christopher Sacca
$22,500 per year for support of a grab-bag of utility classes. WTF. Ryan says: "When EJB 3.1 and WebBeans 1.0 come out I will be able to swap out Spring and can get the support I need from Sun since we're already paying for it." - Dave Johnson
"It’s great to see this level of sophistication among the commercial Open Source community in Europe, and I have hope that eventually the US market will catch up." - Dave Johnson
"The whole idea of the McCain plan is to get families out of employer-paid health coverage and into the health insurance marketplace, where naked competition is supposed to take care of all ills" - Dave Johnson
That story is going to go over real well in this week's financial climate, no? Almost like the 3rd rail of social security for seniors; corp-paid health care for white color middle-agers. - Patrick Mueller
I've yet to meet a life scientist who believed in Creationism. - Sally Church
I might not be the least biased person to make this statement, I am a Christian and believe God created the universe, but this guy sure has a stick up his butt. Very self righteous and angry. My one question would be, what is his definition of a creationist? Is it someone who believes the earth was created in 7 24 hour days 6,000 years ago? Or someone who believes there may have been a big bang but that big bang was part of Gods action that created the universe? - ChiliMac
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The typical definition of a creationist is someone that believes that god created everything. Not that he started the whole chain of events. - Alex IHateMondays Scoble
@chilimac if you're saying you believe God created the universe, but that creation may have taken longer than 7x24 hrs AND that there very probably was a big bang, then that puts you pretty squarely in the mainstream. - Christian Anderson
Remember that most of the world's Christians have no opinion on creationism whatsoever. Only 10% of the world's Christians live in North America, and only a small minority of those would believe in a young earth. Most Christians in Africa and Asia wouldn't think about this issue on a regular basis and many (perhaps not most, but a solid minority) don't even have the Old Testament translated into their language. - Justin Long
There is a whole continuum of Creationisms, with Young-Earth Creationism at one end and Intelligent Design Creationism at the other: http://www.ncseweb.org/graphic... They are still all Creationism, and still all need to be understood as political stands, rather than religious: http://www.ncseweb.org/resourc... - Bora Zivkovic
OMG, I got a real, live silly Creationist commenting on that post! Bwahahaha! - Bora Zivkovic
@Bora Zivkovic: Why are you insulting people, who have different opinions that yours? - Peter
Creationism is not an opinion. Creationism is an insidious political tool based on ignorance. If you feel insulted, get an education and redeem yourself. - Bora Zivkovic
This type of "discussion" is what made me unsubscribe from PZ Myers blog. As in any aspect of life, there will be stubborn people that won't accept Evolution even if they give birth to an Amphioxus. The same people that think Palin is an expert in international relations because she sees Russia from Alaska. No matter how many lines you write these people will always believe what they want to believe. - Paulo Nuin
Creationists are small children who simply can't grow up. They might as well also believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy. Many of them believe that the Second Coming of Christ is due any minute. Infantilism is the name of the disorder. These are the kind of people who comprise the Republican base these days. - Sean McBride
As usual for this topic (navigated from either end of the narrow mind) this is turning into an opportunity to laugh at people. Of such are persecutions and wars created. I wonder if the next persecution will be "in the name of science and reason" or "in the name of $deity"? - Simon Phipps
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Creationism is usually taken to mean one of two things: "Young Earth" or "Intelligent Design". The former asserts the literal truth of the book of Genesis as having taken place 6,000 years ago. The latter asserts that the world is "too complex" to be explained by evolutionary theory, and thus the only alternative is a "designer". Both positions are flat out stupid. - Eric
"how minuscule the value of the company's core business has become--and how Sun's continuing free-fall may have spoiled its chances for a private-equity bailout" - Dave Johnson
Sun "announced the addition of [ERP] vendor StA(C)sud to a growing list of customers that have adopted and deployed [Glassfish and MySQL]" - Dave Johnson
