Concentrating on the money these big corporations give to Open Source foundations and ignoring the salaries they pay to dedicated Open Source developers is a ridiculous comparison -- a drop in a bucket.

I'm really tired of walking past dozens of empty reserved for paralyzed rat parking places to get into the grocery store.

Heh. I took the train into Chicago for many years. There's a Mars plant next to the line, with a passenger stop. Every morning the robot-voice would announce "The next stop will be ... Mars".

How many rovers do YOU (or **anyone** else for that matter) have on Mars?

Oh please. I'm SURE Comcast will have *no problem whatsoever* with Google running (common carrier) fiber to people's houses.

Agreed. Starship Troopers was awful. I LOVED it.

That's because HOA board members' heads are smaller on the inside.

Before this, we referred to wearable devices that did this as "hip flasks".

You are the standard ideologue... Everyone else's ideology is a baseless religion, but yours, well, it is merely the truth....

That is ABSOLUTE GENIUS. Worthy of framing. Did you just come up with that, or is it from somewhere else?

Surely this is "fair use" isn't it? ;-)

Oh for fuck's sake. Stay off our roads. Keep your kids out of our schools. Stop drinking our socialist treated water. Stop eating our collectivist inspected foods. Stop using our socialist sewers. Stay off our government-granted monopolist power grid. Don't call our communal fire department.

In other words, go back to middle-ages subsistance farming and its way of thinking.

It doesn't matter whether WE think it's inaccurate, it matters how much law enforcement and HR think it's ACCURATE.

Never seen a disco clam. I do recall a few disco beavers, back in the day...

By the same token, now you have to implement pie.toast() and cake.toast() and lots of other useless and irrelevant methods, even though you're never ever going to use them, simply because they extend the isBakeable() interface.

I right spill chuckers two!