June 17 is Firefox Download Day 2008

Posted June 12, 2008, 10:38 a.m.

I mentioned a couple weeks ago about Mozilla’s intent to set a world record for the most software downloads in a day with the upcoming launch of the Firefox 3 web browser. Well, the date has finally been set. Firefox Download Day 2008 (and the associated final release of Firefox 3) will be on June 17—next Tuesday.

Mark your calendars. This will be a great, free way for you to support an excellent open source software project and, while you’re at it, download a great web browser. I’ve been using the betas and release candidates of Firefox 3 for months now; this thing is rock solid.

Scott Bradford has been putting his opinions on his website since 1995—before most people knew what a website was. He has been a professional web developer in the public- and private-sector for over twenty years. He is an independent constitutional conservative who believes in human rights and limited government, and a Catholic Christian whose beliefs are summarized in the Nicene Creed. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University. He loves Pink Floyd and can play the bass guitar . . . sort-of. He’s a husband, pet lover, amateur radio operator, and classic AMC/Jeep enthusiast.

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Modernists have undermined faith far more effectively than atheists. The wolves in sheep’s clothing have carried away many more sheep than the honest wolves.

The establishment of a Constitution, in time of profound peace, by the voluntary consent of a whole people, is a PRODIGY, to the completion of which I look forward with trembling anxiety.

Campaign pledges . . . ought to carry something of the guarantee principle and money-back policy that an honorable business institution carries with the sale of its goods.

Don’t worry too much about what the world calls victories or defeats. How often the ‘victor’ ends up defeated!

Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a descending spiral, ultimately ending in destruction for all and everybody.

You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.

Middle-class values, of course, are represented by the Constitutional concepts of limited government, states rights, rights of property, a competitive economy, the solving of problems on the local level if possible and, in any event, with a minimal of government meddling.

From a moral point of view this is certain: even if a doubt existed concerning whether the fruit of conception is already a human person, it is objectively a grave sin to dare to risk murder.

Papers say: ‘Congress is deadlocked and can’t act.’ I think that is the greatest blessing that could befall this country.

Falsehood can hold out against much in this world, but not against art.

Without justice, mercy would be indifference to wrong: without mercy, justice would be vindictive.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

In despotic States men know not how to act, because they are told nothing; in democratic nations they often act at random, because nothing is to be left untold.

If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the general welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one subject to particular exceptions.

Spread love everywhere you go. . . . Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.

In most projects, the first system built is barely usable. It may be too slow, too big, awkward to use, or all three. There is no alternative but to start again, smarting but smarter, and build a redesigned version in which these problems are solved.

Progressivism will hollow out your religion and wear its skin like a trophy.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success.

Natural endowment is far less consequential than the ability to use it productively, and that ability is an outcome of culture.

We don’t want to go back to tomorrow, we want to move forward.

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