They seem to have forgotten: "Developers developers developers... developers developers developers... developers developers developers..."

"It's effectively impossible to launch a sophisticated Web project without making extensive use of JavaScript and AJAX dynamic loading."

Yeah, that's why my (extensive) web infrastructure has ZERO javascript in it....

You TOTALLY MISSED garyisabusyguy's point. You are making the 'former employer' the bad guy instead of the true cause, the bad law.

Get rid of the law and people usually do the right thing (try to save those precious artifacts)... As it is now, the law is pretty much guaranteeing their destruction.

Agreed! THERE IS NOT ONE SPECIES OF PLANT OR ANIMAL THAT IS NOT PREDATORY and to think that aliens (with a technological advantage) would be 'kumbaya' is sheer idiocy.

A pointy stick is so 20,000 BC

For $99.99 you can have a LASER attached to it's head...

I cried a little when he broke his Apple ][ monitor...

...if I used one at work, no one would notice (until something broke).

The world is a horrible place because of the US blah blah...

ANSWER: When you learn machine code.

'cuase I got no real mod points...

What you want to do is SO frigging simple it's embarrassing. So, what this tells me is that you are not spending money on IT staff. Quit being a cheap bastard and hire at least ONE competent IT person.

In the 60's (with SLIDE RULES) NASA built the Apollo program and put men on the moon. Today we can't lift our own astronauts into space and NASA's 'move ahead' plan is to play with Legos. Pathetic

'cause I got no real mod points...

(Ignore my "don't" in the above sentence. It made sense in my head but not so much in print.)