There is a lot of truth in the world. It is true that there were hundreds of times as much press about Michael Jackson's death as there was Mother Teresa's. That is a sad truth; perhaps an important truth in that it serves as a reflection on our society.

It is the truth that I am overweight; it is the truth that the average queue at the Wal-Mart checkout line is 4. We do not discuss these truths in this forum; this is simply not the place to discuss Wal-Mart queues, my weight or the press coverage around current events.

Likewise, it is not necessary that we discuss or argue the truth or lack of truth about the politics of immigration, our country or our president. What we say here in the setting of computing-for-cures does not change or have any effect at all on the truth or lack thereof concerning the subjects you brought up.

I have some very strong feelings about the subjects you brought up, but discussing them here has caused all kinds of drama, heat, divisiveness and what for?? It accomplishes nothing poistive.

Staying with this team or leaving it has no effect on any of those truths, no more than does discussing it here. Please reconsider your decision to leave; it accomplishes nothing. You see, Kieth is just trying to keep this a friendly place stop the flame wars. I don't care for the rules either but I really don't like the endless arguments even more.

Good Morning Dave...So very good to hear from you! Good Morning to the rest of MOT and finally Good Morning to the "Drive-bys".

On another subject, I have learned a few things about dual booting and installing and running Ubuntu (a GUI form of Linux and hence Unix that is "easy to use" and vaguely similar to windows in terms of user interface) of both the 32 bit and 64 bit varieties. So, between Dubby and I, anyone that wants to dip their toe in the non-Mrs.-Gates-boy-Bill world, you have some experience at your disposal.

They must be starting the beta for the Windows version of CEP2. I managed to snag four of them a couple of hours ago. With just 20K of them, they're bound to have gone fast. Running fast too - under four hours it looks like. From the beta announce, it sounds like CEP2 will be smaller and faster WUs compared to the other projects.

Gerald, if you want to view it as PC, that's your right. As for what I intend it to be, that is the last thing it is. I have been asked more than once to ban any political posts here in our thread. I have not done that. Political posts can work here. As a global team, we can learn much from each other. A ban on political posts would prevent a discussion for example of say the parlimentarian system used in places like the UK, Canada and Australia. While it has similarities to what we have here in the US, there are significant differences. We would not want that discussion though to distract from the primary purpose of our thread - recruitment, recognition and team support. As for being followed around the site, I was contacted by someone not on our team about a thread you had started in the Chat room. In all honesty, if they thought there was a problem with it, it would have be best for them to simply report it to the admins. Since they made me aware of the thread, I did look at the posts in it, not just yours. I do recall one that I found questionable but not a clear rules violation in my mind. Those that I thought were clear violations, I reported. Whether they were or weren't was for the admins to decide. As for my post in that thread, it was as much my hope as anything that it would deter further problems. I have no interest nor desire to "monitor" posts in other threads by MOT members. When a possible problem is brought to my attention, I feel an obligation to look into it, just as much to protect MOT and its members. Personally, I find the tone of a number of threads in the chat room offensive. I do not follow those threads for that reason. The message and the debate in those threads has become pointless because of all the vitrol. I am simply trying to maintain civility and simple respect in the thread here. I don't think anyone here is happy, though for different reasons, with these changes to our thread, most emphatically myself. I believed that because we were all adults here who were here for a common cause that we could be civil to one another and be respectful of our differences. I believed that this team wanted to at least meet what was expected of it so I expected a lot of great things from the team. In many ways, the team far exceeded those expectations. We have had tremendous growth in our "output" over the years and we have much to be proud of. The inability to be respectful of each other's differences has been a bitter disappointment for me. It is a real threat to our real objective here and I see no choice but to take the course I am taking. If that results in some folks leaving the team, that is the price that must be paid. Nevertheless, I regret seeing anyone leave.

MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 08/06 - All Members:

Team rank movement report
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                              Prior                New         Current
Member name                   Rank      Change     Rank        Points
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No movement in team ranks.

Points milestones report
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No points milestones found.

Runtime milestones report
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Coingames reached 37 years of runtime

Results returned milestones report
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No results returned milestones found.

New members report
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No new members found.

Retired members report
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brown chris retired from the team.

For the week as a team:

Statistics  Total Run Time  Points   Results

Date         (y:d:h:m:s)    Earned   Returned
08/06/2010  0:190:04:25:44  487,477  1,034 
08/05/2010  0:192:06:56:51  488,500  1,090 
08/04/2010  0:198:18:58:22  495,376  1,112 
08/03/2010  0:212:15:41:40  547,725  1,270 
08/02/2010  0:225:12:34:41  565,603  1,343 
08/01/2010  0:197:08:02:26  513,279  1,106 
07/31/2010  0:198:16:31:29  501,829  1,133

Team Records:
Results Returned: 12/19/2007 2,522
Points: 07/05/2010 702,713
Runtime: 01/25/2006 1:123:00:53:34

Good crunching folks!!!!!