There have been multiple incidents of gays being dragged to their deaths behind cars. While this is not technically lynching, it's a close cousin.

"Many countries with a trial-by-jury system (particularly the United States) tend to feel that the deliberations of a jury are private and sacrosanct, and such verdicts generally are allowed to stand." (http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Jury_nullification)

The money spent in 1955 has long since been paid off. So...no you're not.

They also advance standards. Micro-USB has many failings compared to the new connector. New things are good, not "fucked", CoolHand. I think the new connector is pretty cool. The only thing wrong is Apple charging $29 for an adaptor. That part is indefensible.

Really. So the new connector has absolutely no advantages whatsoever over the old 30-pin connector with its now unused Firewire pins, or the non-reversible and only 2-pin data mini-USB? REALLY?

Please go look at the specs before posting.

Go charge your Android wirelessly. I'll wait....

The downside is that makes you a small fish in a big pond. I work IT in a company whose primary business is not IT. That makes me a big fish in a small pond. I'm needed. It gives me serious job security. And I'm exposed daily to people who do something outside of IT so I don't feel like I'm in super-geek mode 100% of the time. There can be serious upsides to not working in a company that does all one thing.

And if you feel pangs of wanting to connect with more people in your field, use social media. I use Twitter heavily to connect with others in my IT specialty. Oh, and attend a couple of conferences a year. You can get your geek on for 3-5 days and feel great, then return with all you learned. It works./P

Many posts will talk about happiness and growth and pay. I will concentrate on age. I was all with you staying at your current job and being happy until I saw the one crucial tidbit: You're 40. That's the killer age after which finding a job in IT becomes very difficult. The job you have at age 40 is likely the IT job you'll be stuck at until you retire. Companies deny it, but they hire 20-somethings because they're cheap and (the companies think) they're moldable to anything they want them to be (they aren't).

Don't think my post is coming from a young'un who is putting down older workers; I'm 44. You're literally at the end of your rope, career-wise and so am I. You have a chance to get a 10% raise and transition into management (away from the deathtrap of IT). OMFG, DO IT NOW NOW NOW. Do it while you can. Get the money now before the industry pegs you a "has been".

Seriously. Go. Even if your'e a bit less happy you'll be better off career-wise and retirement-wise. It's the adult, smart choice. Go.

I notice he has made exceptions for existing works such as "Lolita" ... of course because to ban that he would be castigated. But he doesn't seem to have an exception for the psychiatrists who possess such descriptions as they are attempting to treat patients.Or researchers who possess such descriptions as they are attempting to write papers about human sexual behavior. Nope; those are all arrest-worthy to this person.....who is likely having such thoughts himself, just as gay bashers are more likely than not to be gay themselves.

But overall this is nothing more than the thought police coming around again. "Now that we control the pictures, we must control the words!"

And I'm quite sure there are no stupid laws on the books in your country that, because there's no public knowledge of or interest in them, will not get changed.

Crowdsource the job of responding to them all. I'm sure enough of us are infuriated at this turn of events that we could all lend a hand. I think the first thing you'd need is a lawyer-type to draft a boilerplate response. Nothing too long, but substantial enough to explain in, say, 3 paragraphs that you are 1) your site is 100% legal, 2) this is a standard feature of the readers, and 3) no money will be paid out to anyone under any circumstances. Then let us volunteers each "adopt" a complaint to handle. If a sufficient percentage can be done away with, perhaps your venture can survive.

Your post was confusing until I saw your screen name.

Cute.

Whether it was being downloaded by bots or humans, this story was interesting to me from a distributed payload distribution angle. At 4.1Gb a copy, that many Mountain Lions comes out to over 12 petabytes transferred in under four days. That had potential to clog up Ted Stevens' series of tubes, but I've not heard of any problems.