The more chicks the more better ('specially if they're hot!). :)

Just as your point 1 is equally denial.
Point 2 is far from `blindingly obvious`; in fact, gas prices here have gone down a bit in the last year ... when did they run out again?
Far from being Creationists, the global-warming scam scientists are just crying wolf to get some attention and, most importantly, more funding and influence (they're really jealous of the finance people these days ... finance people make lots of money, drive fancy cars and get laid).
Point 4 is simple pragmatism which is unacceptable to liberals given they typically feel they can't survive if things go bad (`lock and load` is not a term they're typically familiar with).
George Carlin, while not perhaps being scientifically trained, at least doesn't have a self-interest like self-aggrandizing and propagandizing pseudo-scientists with lousy career paths.

Embarrassed for us? Really? You can tell us in person after you guys all go bankrupt in a few months and we show up with the title to pretty much all of Europe. I'm looking forward to owning a beach in Greece! :)

Oh yes, this is definitely what they need to be concerned about and not their huge budget deficit and the flight of businesses out of their state.

I think German workers are more productive because they get other `services` besides a `cloud ceiling`. ;)

If they ever did then they're dumber than we all originally thought. A less cynical and more elegant engineering solution would have been to harden the OS and software development guidelines to make it more reliable for its users, eliminating the need for a software `reset` ... oh, but wait, this is Microsoft we're talking about.

And why do we give a steaming bag of monkey spunk what the U.N. says or does? They eat taxpayers' money and act like little self-righteous, spoiled princes while they enrich themselves through back-door deals and spend money on prostitutes. The sooner the U.S. kicks them out of the country the better.

`Good`, of course, is a relative term. Can you specify the maximum upload/download rates that you're provided?

When you have paying customers, it's never `the cost of doing business` ... it's the EXTRA cost levied to all your paying customers. It's that socialism thing ... there's no `free` lunch (or broadband internet access, either).

There's that `good` word again. Did you decide that they can shoulder that extra cost yourself? I'd like to see the little socialist prince who did.

And how does that have ANYTHING to do with broadband internet access? If broadband (note that the *quality* of the connection is being specified; it's not enough you have a connection i.e. dial-up) internet is a `human right`, then I would claim there are a whole lot of things that are more practically useful for the sustainment of human life that are as well.

They *are* professionals ... professionals at keeping themselves employed. Companies will learn sooner or later that trying to pay IT people as little as possible will always bite them in the end. He who controls the computer controls the content.

Effectively this means Microsoft has no confidence in its own engineering capabilities or its processes that guide third-party software developers. Everyone who's surprised, get out of your office chair right now and break dance on your head in the aisle.

Based on what, your personal opinion? Please do tell us what you were offering given `good` is relative.

There are a lot of crappy ones because there are a lot of crappy developer jobs that pay crappy wages. You get what you pay for. Plus, there are even more crappy management types who know nothing technical and can't tell a good developer from a bad one.

Again, those people exist because a lot of developer jobs don't pay much and because the people doing the hiring don't know much.

You were saying something about a dictionary?

I'd like to know where someone with that little knowledge can get $100/hr ... that's not many places in this country today.