Just so he doesn't feel all alone: I side with Patrick. (More or
less, I'm not quite blunt and emphatic about it, after all...)
Btw, Talli, you're wrong, not only is global warming an
utter crock, but
measures to "fix" it are likely to be extremely counterproductive.
(That link will have to do, as I couldn't find any others quickly.
More or less, we have absolutely no idea which way the climate is
really going, but from the historical record it's rather more likely
to go into a global ice age, which would be disastrous, than
get warmer, which would be no problem at all, even beneficial.
Really understanding which way the climate is going to go
could be critical to the future of civilization, and thus the human
race. And right now we don't know. But we do know enough to
know that the gloom and doom "global warming" theories are BS.
Spending $billions on the Kyoto protocols rather than pumping that
money into research to actually figure out what we should do
is insane. But real research is hard work, and doesn't pay
bureaucrats to fly around the world and tell us what to do at our
expense, etc. etc.)
But much more importantly, this is all far, far off topic.
Greenpeace uses OpenACS, Greenpeace is a well known and effective
international organization, and Greenpeace has been an excellent
memeber of the OpenACS community. So in OpenACS terms, Greenpeace is
good. Thus the smilies next to Jonathan's and my comments above.
Even if we lived in some bizzaro alternate universe where Greenpeace
was murdering millions (like the national socialist and communist
governments of the last hundred years), it would still be be hard to
construe Greenpeace's use of OpenACS as somehow drastically improving
their ability to wreak evil on the world. So to the truly politically
devoted, to any cause, rest at ease - you are not collaborating with
the enemy here, any enemy.
So Patrick, Talli, please shut up. I'm sure there's code or docs or
whatever that could use writing somewhere. Open Source is good,
OpenACS is good, and organizations that do a lot to help OpenACS, like
Greenpeace, are also good - and that's all I care about for our
purposes here in this forum.
