Which makes them an interesting foil to the "modern" (and I use that term very loosely) right, with it's core belief set stuck anywhere from 1000 to 600 years ago, depending on whether they're more focused on their invisible sky wizard, or bringing back feudalism (with the starring role in jus primae noctis being your friendly neighborhood corporate entity^H^H^H^H^H^Hperson).

Clowns to the left of us, jokers to the right (or vice versa, if you prefer...)

I believe the definition of coercion has it initiated at a level high enough to be able to apply force or intimidation. I don't think threatened employee defection qualifies.

That stopped being true the minute a church made it policy not to marry a couple without a valid government marriage license.

While I'm 100% with you that Windows 8's UI is a steaming pile of stupid, it must be pointed out that this particular appeal to authority is poorly used, especially here.

It was "Usability experts" who came up with the idiotic concept of "unified interfaces," use cases be damned, in the first place. And now everyone who makes an OS now wants us to use our desktop machines like they're friggin' cell phones.

Is there anything you DIDN'T get utterly wrong?

Here you go. Wipe the froth off your lips and have a read.

For some reason I read that as "empty space between the ears." I guess it's all this talk about politicians and the NSA fapping.

I moved away from them to DNS Exit after finding out that Afraid's default setup was to let anyone create a subdomain on your domain.

DNSExit isn't without their issues, though. If you don't want to use your DNS client, they have an HTTP updater. Unfortuantely, it's unencrypted and you need to put your password in as a "GET" parameter. Ugh!

OpenEMR

When they're not entering into eeeeebil same-sex relationships with their deceptively mousey ninja-housemaid hybrids...

Round these parts, we talk "Merican", boy. An doncher ferget it.

Now if they could just stop hiring those UX twits, so that they might actually be able to improve the end-user experience, instead of just focusing on it and crapping all over it instead.

"Obsolete" doesn't mean "unusable", "unsupported," or even, necessarily, "deprecated."

You're not taking into account that this is slashdot, and there's a news-time-dilation effect in play. Even SoylentNews had this story yesterday.

In the absence of gravity, isn't the equilibrium shape of any bag of mostly water spherical?

That's assuming that girth increases to match length, instead of vice versa. That could be very, very bad.