I'd really like to see controlled comparisons of different forms of cognitive downtime--daydreaming, meditation, gaming, sports, yoga--measuring for these effects.
As someone with a close family member who is schizophrenic and has spent a lot of his life refusing treatment, I think it is inadvisable in the extreme to deliberately avoid recognizing the condition, to minimize or trivalize it, and deliberately avoid seeking help for it. The kind of voices the poster describes do not seem to match the kind of stray thoughts that most people have.
As an adult, unless you pose an acute danger to yourself or others (which this fellow gives no indication of being), nobody can force you into treatment or medication that you do not want to take. The least he should do is learn about the condition, find out from a professional whether or not it actually applies to him at all, and his options if it does.
While psychiatry certainly does have its shortcomings, I have not seen a lot of good come from the Scientology anti-psychiatry approach, or trying to deal with problems of this magnitude (potential schizophrenia) on a pure self-help basis.
"Does he not know that the Beta and RC are publicly available to anyone who wants to download it?"
That's essentially true, although in the interests of strict accuracy (for people like me who recently went looking to download it), there aren't any versions currently available for download: the Beta hasn't been available for weeks, and the RC won't be posted until May 5th.
"We're sorry, Windows 7 Beta downloads are no longer available. If you've got a copy of the Beta and need a key, here's where to look...The Windows 7 RC will be available May 5, and you'll be able to download it from this site through July."
I'll take your word for it; my point was only that forking is probably not a good first move (which was what your comment seemed to be suggesting, if only because I misread it). If the attempt to compromise is made and the agreement can't be reached, then sure, split the group. In this case it sounds like it might be appropriate.
'If someone doesn't like the way Rails framework or "community" is progressing, they can fork it.'
This is getting a bit philosophical, but there will always be differences of opinion, often strong ones, and if people are never willing to compromise for the sake of working together, at some point we'll all be forked down to one-person groups. (This applies to both sides of the debate, not just the one you or I agree with.)
My point is that impulsively splitting the group, without first expressing your discontent and trying to find acceptable common ground, is probably ill advised, though initially satisfying.
I'm pretty sure I'm not hung up about sex, and I'm still uncomfortable bringing it into semi-professional environments where others will be uncomfortable with it. Not because it's sex, but because it's unnecessarily provocative and rude (most of the people defending it seem completely stuck on the "you all think sex is bad!" trip, but a number of other non-sexual issues would fit the same bill, depending on the group you were trying to work with).
There are other social contexts in which I would fight for someone's right to display stuff like that (e.g., for an individual's right to have a personal off-hours blog with nudity and sexual content, or march in a gay pride parade wearing only a bullwhip, and not suffer workplace consequences if someone from HR happens to discover it)--but a coding presentation is one of the least important places, in my personal estimation, for me to be arguing for the right to show that stuff. By forcing it, I lose more than I gain: I get to see babes in the slides (big woop), and the people who aren't comfortable with it are told to go to hell if they don't like it, regardless of whatever other value they may have.
It's no particular skin off my male, porn-loving back, but I don't need to see stuff like that in a rails presentation (aside from the fact that it's distracting: as Alan Moore has commented about the difficult balance in writing intellectual porn, "too much blood to the dick means very little blood to the brain"). I can live without the slides, but I do need to be able to work with people who come from different (possibly conservative and religious) backgrounds. Having lived and worked around people like that for years, I may strongly disagree with them on some pretty basic social/political issues, but we can get along fine professionally without stepping into those waters, and they're often valuable colleagues. Much more valuable to me than porn in my presentations.