See, I have the exact opposite opinion. I'm really enjoying Marvel's annual events in a way I never expected to. The stories feel a lot more organic than they used to, the changes are more pervasive and - apart from JMS's spectacularly godawful retcon of Spider-man's public identity - seem to be a lot more long lasting. They feel far more relevant than they used to as well.

Whereas for me, '90s Marvel comics are characterised by people wearing ludicruous displays of brightly coloured Leifeld-armour which somehow conform perfectly to their oak-tree sized thighs that are essential to keep them from being overbalanced by the mile long barrels on their unintelligible superweapons, running around and spouting poorly derivative (of what wasn't all that good originally) Claremont-babble in a manner we were supposed to find engaging.

(Actually, if you're after some of that, I highly recommend reading through Jeph Loeb & Aron Coleite's work on the tail end of the Ultimatum line, because that's pretty much the direction they went in. Talk about missing the fucking point...)

Dude, seriously, do NOT give them any ideas for more Kingdoms Hearts sequels...

And I thought everyone had realised by now that Rand was full of shit, but clearly not.

You don't think Canonical should have asked for your permission first?

But how does science focus on the man? How about "STOP FUCKING PEOPLE WHO AREN'T YOUR WIFE/GIRLFRIED/SIGNIFIGANT OTHER!"

The 1440 BCs called, they want their moral superiority back.

One of the definitions of 'reason' is 'cause'. It doesn't have to denote intelligence.

I think it's pretty fair to say that the cheetah-gazelle predator-prey relation caused evolutionary changes in both. So to say the "reason" gazelles are so fast is because cheetah's prey on them isn't a semantic or logical stretch.

Isn't language fun?

Fire up Windows.

Now fire up every single application you have installed.

While you're at it, download and load every single Windows application ever.

Getting a lot done?

Maybe activating the "full potential" of Windows isn't all that useful.

Unfortunately, MS just patented that very application of xml last week.

s/do things in a logical fashion/acknowledge that any other operating system even exist/

I think the term you meant was "jailbaited".

You mean like all the patent licensing firms started by ex-MS employees?

I wonder where they got the idea from that that was a viable business model...

...isn't that what attributes are for?

Yes, they're all still very rough around the edges, but that's what I'd expect from an extension system in development. Of course, their existence isn't enough to stop people from all kinds of speculative bullshit about Google's plans and motives, but hey, being a geek is all about ego-driven opinion and nada about facts, it seems.

(I had assumed a liberal dosage of paragraph tags would take care of it, but half the time something just seems to eat them...)