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Olympia Snowe has voted against the public option, she has voted against the American people, and she has proven again and again that she does not take her job seriously.

This ad from Progressive Change Campaign Committee is currently being run in Maine and DC because she should not be holding her Senate seat and she should vacate it immediately and let the people of Maine choose someone who wants to see America last another 200 years.

To be honest, I am very angry. She was elected to serve the people several times, and I can’t remember once when she has actually done this. She serves private interest groups, she votes for wars, she does everything in her power to keep the American people down.

People like her mention 9/11 over and over… but every time she votes against the American people, every time she votes for the war, every time she votes against better health care and better education and better national security through diplomacy and transparency, the terrorists win just a little more.

Is Microsoft saying “Please use our products”? – MS pleads for support?

RMS has seen the light.

The conversation shifted towards Microsoft’s new Open Source labs, and in response to a question by Owens, Stallman noted that Miguel de Icaza “is basically a traitor to the Free Software community”. He also added that De Icaza is a Microsoft apologist, hence his involvement in the new Open Source labs does not inspire confidence.

I take back what I said about RMS earlier, he does, in fact, understand Mono and anything related to C#/.Net is unwanted in FOSS-land.

Also, why is Thom Holwerda shilling for Microsoft so hard? The rest of the article is almost unreadable there.

I want to use Sun’s Java.net Maven repo with Ivy, and this is not documented well anywhere.

In ivysettings.xml (Ivy will automatically use it) put:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE ivysettings>
<ivysettings>
  <settings defaultResolver="chained" />
  <property name="java.net.maven.pattern"
    value="[organisation]/jars/[module]-[revision].[ext]" />
  <resolvers>
    <chain name="chained" returnFirst="true">
      <ibiblio name="ibiblio" m2compatible="true" />
      <ibiblio name="java-net-maven2"
        root="http://download.java.net/maven/2/"
        m2compatible="true" />
      <ibiblio name="java-net-maven1"
        root="http://download.java.net/maven/1/"
        pattern="${java.net.maven.pattern}"
        m2compatible="false" />
    </chain>
  </resolvers>
</ivysettings>

Now you can make an ivy.xml with dependencies like <dependency org="com.sun.grizzly" name="grizzly-http" rev="2.0.0-SNAPSHOT"/> and have it work right.

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