While I agree that the pharmaceutical businesses is a complete disaster area in terms of cures-per-dollar ...

The pharmaceutical industry is not about prevention or cure, they are all about perpetual treatment.

And when you make something that's like the thing with the cool name, but way above it, "Super" is often applied.

Meh. I'll wait for the SuperDuperDraco.

If they are so highly skilled and have so much experience, why don't they start new companies ...

How does being a skilled, experienced computer scientist suddenly make me a good entrepreneurial business manager?

And where will all these unemployed software engineers get their start-up money?

"It's cinnamonnamony!"--The Swedish Chef

I think they're still working on the Whoosh mod.

(Well crafted, turing_m!)

Am I the only overly-tired reader who glossed over that as:

"The common golden orb web spider wards off ants from attacking it on its web site..."?

The Physics of Wine Swilling.

Plain as day, I saw it. That's what a bottle or two of cheap root beer will do to my perceptions.

Do you even know what a rhetorical question is?

What do you think?

Nobody in the world has ever fucking heard of the other BBX before.

I've fucking heard of BBx! I'm surprised it still exists. I can't believe there's a fucking Thoroughbred Basic for Vista. At least MAI Basic Four, Micro Five, and Microshare seem to have fallen by the wayside.

But JHFCoaS, nothing says "stuck in the '70s" like BBx. Oy!