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Valve Offers Beta Steam For Linux

I filled out the survey and hope to give it a spin. It will be really interesting to see if Steam on Linux can take hold.

Valve Linux Steam Client Beta Application

We’re looking for Linux gamers to install and test our new Steam for Linux client. We are primarily interested in experienced Linux users.

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Hurricane Electric

I’ve hosted this domain, including email, with Hurricane Electric since 1998. At the time, he.net was a stand-out shared hosting provider that offered unlimited bandwidth and the latest version of PHP. I recommended their dedicated hosting product to clients that I ended up winning an original XBox in 2002. However, it’s now time to part ways. I host several sites on a Rackspace cloud server (after having started on slicehost.com). It’s just a lot more flexible and easy for me to have root on an Ubuntu server. Regardless, the service at he.net has always been great, and I wish them continued success.

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Banned from Scouts for Not Pledging Allegiance to God

11-Year-Old Banned from Scouting After Not Pledging Allegiance to God

It turns out Boy Scouts aren’t much better in the UK, either. In another completely ridiculous and not-at-all-shocking twist, The Scout Association has denied an 11-year-old boy from being admitted into their exclusive, Godly club.

George Pratt refused to recognize God — or any diety — when reciting The Scout Promise, so they didn’t allow him to be a part of their group.

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Statist Bingo

Play at home with your anarchist friends, but don’t get caught crossing out boxes. They might want to protect you from your gambling addiction.

The Illusion of the State

Since the state is not actually a thing that exists, it is a very accurate observation to define the state as an idea in someone’s (a statist’s) mind.

This idea that a group should be given the permission to aggress and steal rests on a very low, unconscious or subconscious level.

On top of this the statist layers simple euphemistic soundbites and bromides that have been studiously and relentlessly pounded into his head by other statists from childhood on.

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Army Suicides Exceed Combat Deaths

The consensus in the comments in this conservative news site seems to be that these guys are killing themselves because they hate the president. That doesn’t fit. I don’t imagine people kill themselves because they hate their boss several levels up the chain. I imagine that to contemplate suicide is to be insufferable mental anguish and not see any other way to escape. What ideas do these young people have and what experiences are they getting where the two mix to choose death over any alternative?

Army Suicides This Year Exceed 2012 Combat Deaths in Afghanistan | CNSNews.com

The number of suicides among U.S. Army active duty and reserve personnel in 2012 is higher than the total combined military fatalities from Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan over the same timeframe.

Even without Army data for October, the number of deaths believed to be suicides among U.S. Army personnel from January through September still surpass the combined military combat deaths in Afghanistan from January up to October 22.