All the people who haven't died of polio, smallpox and whooping cough would like to disagree with your statement.

Workhouses were tried in the UK. They didn't work too well.

It's quite different but still backwards compatible from what I can see.

Well they're releasing a completely rewritten version next month. Why would they have gone to all that effort if they're about to abandon it and what are they planning to replace it with?

You do know that you can write Web apps in .NET don't you?

They've "abandoned" it even though they're about to release C# 6 and a complete rewrite of ASP.NET called vNext which is being released as open source. Or do you have secret insider knowledge that they're planning to rewrite ASP.NET again in Javascript?

Sounds logical.

Impress us all by publishing a full rebuttal of global warming in the journal of your choice.

What's wrong with verbosity? Verbosity actually gives you some idea what the command does.

That's assuming the WiFi drivers aren't broken.

Since when did Windows 8.1 appease anyone? Customers have been staying away in droves.

I know 2 so my anecdote trumps your anecdote.

I work in IT. I enjoy it however I also have a life outside IT. I wouldn't work for an employer who expected me to never leave the computer just to meet their own weird view of what an IT expert should be.

Not everyone is a fit parent. Should we just abandon those kids? What about vaccination which has saved countless lives? Should we return to the good old days of whooping cough and tuberculosis epidemics? It's not a black and white "government bad" situation.

So who should run the army, police, courts, fix the roads, ensure everyone meets a minimum driving standard, set rules for immigration, charter corporations and all the other things that are required for a functioning developed nation that the private sector wouldn't do?