They're not parsing HTTP in the kernel. HTTP.SYS is a listener.

No, Windows 2000 Professional was built on Windows 2000.

My media center said GRUB when I turned it on, so I thought we were back in 1999.

The Amish have REALLY slow web servers. The latency of those horse-drawn wagons is really bad, but on the bright side they are pretty big so the bandwidth is good if you use really small type on the hand-operated printing press.

Also, kernel panics are rare-- usually just when it's the end of the corn growing season, and some idiot on a motorcycle spooks the horse.

Pretty much everything you have just said is wrong. NT is not a microkernel, and if it ever was, it stopped being do by NT 4.0. And the parsing is not done in kernel space. HTTP.SYS is not a parser, it is a listener.

No, but when winter came the gorillas froze to death.

Morality is not relative.

That being said, FDR was a villain, and not just for the Japanese internment.

Even in the Americas, we tend not to talk overly much of what the Europeans did to the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere.

Well, that's pretty much incorrect. The mistreatment of the natives was made pretty clear to us in public school in the 70s and 80s. I highly doubt there is any recent attempt to reverse that progress.

Darn young baby boomer whippersnappers are so lazy. He wouldn't have been caught if he'd just typed in the code live instead of slothfully brandishing a newfangled flash drive!

cat > rootkit.exe

In my day, I would've had to key it in the front panel! A command shell is pure luxury!

Yeah, but he purchased the ticket himself, assuming the authorities are correct. He must have not even bothered to wear any kind of disguise, because convenience store cameras are usually so bad you can't even tell whether a perp is human.

Government will basically claim ANYTHING improves the economy except the one thing everyone wants: lower taxes across the board.

They'll claim that welfare and UC improve the economy by giving poor people more buying power.

They'll claim tax breaks for crony corporations (auto manufacturers, green energy) give them incentive to hire.

But apparently, this doesn't work if we let everyone keep more of their money. They'll just bury it in the backyard.

I'm a bit surprised that anyone could use a VIC or 64 for very long without realizing that you could do Shift+Stop to break out of that. I mean, even if you didn't RTFM (which was excellent for the VIC) you knew to do that to break out of a running BASIC program-- so why not try it elsewhere?

The very statement "laughing stock" is a comparative one, so I was answering that fallacious statement. Obviously, felony charges for changing desktop wallpaper is absurd, and so are the other items I mentioned.

OK, I don't get it. American culture is defective because straight men don't kiss other men? I'm having trouble keeping up.

Wait, no-- you're just an idiot. Had me going there for a minute.

The UK's cities have video cameras on every street corner, Australia wants to heavily regulate 3D printers in case someone decides to make a plastic gun, China DOSes web sites it doesn't like, ISIS is slaughtering Christians and Jews wherever it finds them, and the USA is a laughing stock?

Your perspective is dysfunctional, to say the least.