Via Slashdot, OSNews: Interview with Mandrake's & KDE's David Faure. Worth a read.

The interview covers a lot, including the slow load times of Linux apps and what's being done about it. (Why is it that Linux apps load so much slower than equivalent Windows apps?)

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We just saw John Q last evening. Decent movie. Densel Washington is always good. But then the movie turned into an advertisement for socialized health care. It was really there all along, but the message wasn't implicit anymore by the end.

The movie pissed me off after that. It showed Hillary Clinton arguing the cause. "The richest nation in history should be able to afford national health insurance" yada yada.

No. It doesn't follow. Just because everyone should have health care, it doesn't follow that therefore the government should provide it! It is fundamentally not the government's job to provide for all the wants and needs of its people.

Plus, I hate it when people refer to our country as "history's richest nation", forgetting that we have something like a 5 trillion dollar debt as well as a huge and growing trade deficit. Considering that, we may well be one of history's poorest nations. It's silly to think that somehow our country has enough money to start paying for everybody's doctor bills.

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Blog This - Online diarists rule an Internet strewn with failed dot coms. "Bloggers are turning the hunting and gathering, sampling and critiquing the rest of us do online into an extreme sport. We surf the Web; these guys snowboard it. Bloggers are the minutemen of the digital revolution."

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Whoa, I always thought Google decorating its logo for special occasions was one of the coolest thing about the company. Dave disagrees. He wants them to be "normal steady reliable and staid" for everything but world-changing events and major holidays... I translate that as "be boring and corporate". I don't know how Google's fun cartoons have anything to do with being "commercial" or with a lack of "integrity", especially for something as wonderful and universal as the Olympics.

For someone who always talks about the problems with "BigCo's", I figured he'd relish a company which isn't afraid to have fun with its own image. I always enjoy seeing what new logos Google comes up with, and it's been fun watching them incorporate about every Winter Olympic sport into it throughout the past two weeks.

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Bundling cURL in PHP, from the Zend Weekly Summary. "I'm +1 on this" too

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The Guardian: Superman Star Would Come To UK For Stem Cell Treatment.

... Reeve said the scientists are now able to remove stem cells from embryos that are "not real" because they are not fertilised.

"The pro-life lobby has nothing to fear, because we are not talking about destroying lives," he continued. "Even if you believe that life begins at the moment of fertilisation of a sperm and an egg, that is not required for this line of research.

"Scientists do not need to use fertilised embryos, so I cannot understand what the objection is." He added that he hoped the House of Lords "will take the time to understand what the technology actually is, and to recognise it has nothing to do with destroying life".

Thank you! There are many other means by which to get stem cells than by killing babies! Although I don't know what he means by "not real" embryos... isn't that just an egg then? Hmm...

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