McDonald's is atrocious. I'll give you that. Miley.... just looks weird to me. Seriously. Her body is just not shaped right or something.

But... if you're *gonna* nuke the Amerkins, do it for a damn good reason. We gots plenty.

I'll start:

Bush

If you're referring to Shatner's music, then yes, nuke Canada.

LOL.

I just saw the lines and remembered the tune. Didn't even see such a horrible pun in there at all.

Thought it was one of those constant crazy comments we get around here, and I do remember seeing it at least a few dozen times at this point.

I pretty much see politics as a single proposal to the working man.

Suck a dick, or take a dick. Either way, we're giving you Dick. It's whats for Dinner, and I'll give you a hint: Dick.

Shots Fired :)

I haven't heard someone bash MS and LA that hard in awhile...

Which is a very damn good point. It's called the Graft.

Same reason why you get more bang for your buck building your own computer. You get more bang for your buck by removing those very expensive middle men and old corrupt men (Senators) from the equation.

If only government was about efficiency and getting stuff done instead of creating complex projects, endless red tape, government contracts awarded through cronyism and nepotism.

I see the GP's point though. It's not a bad idea, but to do it for something that doesn't even have scientific value anymore is insane. Just reallocate the money towards building a bridge, or redoing an entire length of interstate. Literally, anything else.

That's the saddest part. We are so mired in our cronyism and paralyzed by our process that we can't just use the money for something else. Too many corrupt men upset that their unjust enrichment was put on hold. We can't have unjust enrichment stop can we?

I wouldn't mind the idea so much if it worked

Those rich greedy fucks caused this economic disaster. In part by allowing mortgaged securities in the first place, and then progressively playing with it like it was the Wild West. This is 100% the fault of Wall Street, and they need to be brought to justice. Even if it's in the form of the guillotines and French mobs.

It's a myth that the "job creators" are the rich people, and that money "trickles" down in this economy.

Where are all the jobs being created? They got bailed out. The uber-rich 1% have all the money.

Where are all the jobs? Where are the investments into small businesses?

The rich are hoarding right now and corporations are even worse with creating a race towards 25 hour per week part time jobs to bypass the requirements for job benefits. It's all about cutting jobs, cutting salaries, employees have to do with less and less. From removing the water in break rooms to save a paltry couple hundred bucks to eliminating group health care and putting everyone on 25 hours, or 1099's.

I'll believe the bullshit of trickle down economics the moment I actually see it happening. We need it more than ever right now.

Why do people get so mad about this?

It reminds me of the Golden Girls, a simpler time about geriatric women and their troubles.

Who doesn't wanted to be constantly reminded about that?

This has always confused me. If you know they are a moron, why would you let them near an ostensibly important piece of non-serviceable equipment?

You're a fucking moron. Stay away from my cock.

Now that makes more sense.

While I'm all for nuking England as the food is terrible and the prime export is nanny state totalitarianism, we would need to find a substitute for the art it produces. Canada gave us Beiber. England gave us the Beatles and Heavy Metal.

I really don't think we should legalize Visual Basic.

This is the stupidest and most pointless idea I've ever heard here. Who writes up stuff like that? I'd like to get paid grant money doing that. I can bullshit about things I've no clue about plenty. I even have a penis, which is like +5 skill modifier for bullshit.

It cycles. The end result is if you did a whole bunch of effort to monetize the part, and made pretty much what you would have got to sell it outright.

Car manufacturers would be screwed. Nothing says you can't take a component out of your car and replace it with after market. People would just sell them to exporters who send them to China to be "refurbished" into brand spanking new, superior, Chinese after market parts. I seem to remember there being a BUNCH of controversy over auto manufacturers voiding warranties and prohibiting customers from full ownership, so that has really good precedent.

If you never actually compromise the IP cop software on device itself, but choose to remove it, no violations of DMCA were performed. That allows that "black" market. Only way around that is to link everyone one of those devices together somehow and argue that the removal of any single part compromises the IP security of all parts. Beyond freaking ridiculous of course, but it's not like old men and old business models play fair.

Enforced how too? The OnStar is not optional? I have to be tracked? I'm warned and then sued if my car doesn't check in?

Which guy would EVER purchase a car like that? Not many.

It stands to reason that many people would opt not to purchase the feature, but still have the hardware in the car. Who pays for that? The consumer does, and probably at a discount price with service contract.

Either:

A) They need to find enough suckers to NOT figure out that the TCO has to factor in monthly service charges. So that heated seat will cost the base part price of $238.83, plus the service charge fee, credit processing fee, applicable taxes, monthly feature costs, discounts, arbitration support fee, lube fee (even though they don't use it and sell it again), general stupidity fee and end up being a $2,345.32 heated seat. This *must* seem reasonable to them.

B) Magically survive when their not-paid-for parts are being stripped and re-purposed as scrap.

Some people's kids man...

and the answer is readily apparent.

Whatever lines of code are used to draw boobies on the screen is the most often used code.

Interesting. Thanks for playing devil's advocate. I did find it funny you felt it necessary to link to explanation of it.

I guess the art of debate is becoming a lost art...

I had not considered "polyfills". However, if they are critical to site operation then you would have no choice but to load them on the pages that need it. I'm not saying there should be a hard 250k limit or anything, just that for normal operations you should aggressively try to limit the size.

Personally, I like to inject scripts on demand. When I would need one of those polyfill libraries I could inject the script before hand. If the user never performs an operation requiring it, it does not get loaded.

I never claim to be a front-end expert at all. In the last 2 years though I've been forced to step up and start creating more and more of the front end infrastructure due to costs (which is terrible; I'm overworked). For what I needed the minimum JQuery library has been giving me everything I need and I inject the chart and graph JS when I need it on specific pages.

How do images not from the domain (or registered CDN) failing to load make essential web applications useless? That sounds like hotlinking of images which I've always understood to be a dickhead move on the part of web designers.

That also comes back to the javascript because I cannot understand putting all of your JS on CDN's that you are not paying for. Worse, I see developers all the time hotlinking scripts from other blogs and developers. If you pay for the CDN, then use it as you see fit. If it's something your not paying for, then don't be a dickhead. Common courtesy from my point of view.

In some cases I can understand that hotlinking may be required to offer a service, or normalize images and scripts amongst all of the services clients. However, the vast majority of this activity is highly undesirable from the user's point of view. I use DoNotTrackMe and Ghostery precisely for that reason.

I'm not interested in facilitating the mass violations of privacy for marketers. They can DIAF repeatedly. I really believe that the content or script should be delivered from the domain, or CDN's that they are paying for. Other CDN's are too risky and don't offer the minimum level of reliability that I expect.

Keeping strictly to this requirement would seem to solve a lot of problems. The site owners and designers would be forced to host and review the content they are pushing out. No more pushing the blame out to a 3rd party company, and create accountability to help the users.

If they really want that beacon or tracking technology then download the script to your own servers or CDN's. While I know that many designers would just cron the damn thing to sync it, it does still create accountability.

As for the registering of the CDN, I think you misunderstood me. The site itself would register a CDN as part of the domain through instructions in the XHTML. I believe this would simplify work flow and allow you to swap out a CDN without touching a single line of code in the rest of the site.

You could register several different objects with the browser itself. Off the top of my head you could register CDN's, external widgets, beacons, trackers, etc. Even better, you could register known external objects that are community approved. Meaning, your XHTML does not have to reference the exact Google Analytics script, but to a common reference point that allows Google to normalize that code to whatever they want. No cost for registration. If it's well used enough the community itself can add it to the list of common objects to make life easier for all designers.

Having that can allow the community to manage RBL's for objectionable content. Not to mention with a single preference click you could disable all beacons and trackers. Privacy laws could be amended to state that bypassing the user preferences in the browser is illegal. Wasn't Google guilty of that anyways with something? There are really very few exceptions to disabling trackers. Netflix loading the FB Connect code to facilitate certain features is an example. Netflix could tell it was blocked and pop-up a dialog box informing that certain features will now be missing AND list them. I know some people want Social Media to be omnipresent in all the sites they visit. This does allow that, but strongly categorizes all of these activities in a way that is now transparent to all users.

A strong level of security is provided when the community finds that somebody was injecting a blocked beacon or tracker from their own domain or CDN, they get added to the RBL and disabled everywhere. That's a really strong deterrent and well operated RBL's can be fair and impartial. While I've heard nightmares regarding RBL's, the major ones I've always found to be operated well and you have ample ability to remove yourself. Plus, it would only happen if that RBL found you being a dickhead, not just faked reports from user complaints. Legitimate malware complaints and tracking from security companies could allow many large scale malware attacks to be stopped in their tracks. Certainly a more comprehensive and proactive approach.

I realize that this would upturn entire marketing industries, but quite frankly, fuck them. If the user base sends out a message loud and clear that says, "Don't Track Me", I don't see why they get to continue violating privacy. DoNotTrackMe and Ghostery are not going anywhere and are in fact growing.