That's what the PHBs who order these kind of changes (often so they can look like they're doing something) never think about. When you've done something to break the trust of a community, no matter how on the decline said community may be, it's very hard to repair the damage to your reputation afterward. Slashdot Beta would have been a worse mistake if they hadn't had the "&nobeta=1" escape clause, but fortunately that meant they only went half way before the community pushed back. (And I still think the "text over images" design meme is stupid. Just look at this abomination of web design.)

How many of you out there are still avoiding the use of FTDI's USB serial chips? And how many of you instantly wrote them off and gave them the "unperson" treatment?

That's because you aren't using Clang. One of the reasons Apple ditched GCC was so that they could get live recompile for Xcode.

Just remember what happened the last time we outlawed a favorite addiction of Americans.

No, but I've been in more than a few places that truly crank up the music to improve not being able to hear the person across the table.

Just think of the possibilities of Bayesian MTG cards... now instead of being full of GET TAXI CAB IN INDIA, the /. submission queue could be turned into an entertaining and enjoyable* game!

* for certain values of entertaining and enjoyable that may not apply to people who don't like CCGs

It's all about the pork, and protecting those Shuttle-era jobs. (Never mind that NASA is a relatively small budget item and there's no good reason they couldn't add to SLS while keeping Commercial Crew funded.)

Remember those Shuttle main engines that they removed (replaced with mock-ups) before sending them off to museums? Yeah, well the test stands are still at Stennis, and the 2010 legislation ordering SLS required NASA to use existing Shuttle technology where possible, so SLS will launch with SSMEs removed from Shuttle orbiters before they were sent to museums. Those SSMEs are being test-fired once again at Stennis. That's right, the actual same Shuttle engines that they had to refurbish after every flight.