I'm proud to be deranged then. You can have your sanity - its blandness goes great with the mediocrity of Java.

Yeah, and C++ had it since before Gosling decided C++ wasn't good enough for him.
Ever since its inception, Java has steadily acquired lame, non-generic, basically hacks of implementations for features in C++ which it strived so hard to shun. Mainly due to Gosling being not smart enough to really understand C++ in the first place. Honestly, read some interviews with him, he's just guts and bile about it, no logical arguments whatsoever, typical I-don't-get-it-therefore-it's-wrong, holier than thou attitude.
The tasteless, confused hamburger that Java is today is the result of its small minded creator and the barriers built in since the beginning. Doug Lea's work turned the crapfest Java was into a workable platform for serious applications, but that's about it.

Don't fucking call random people code monkeys. Mind your fucking manners, sir.

that this is about getting the phone numbers - another way to access users and feed them delicious Facebook and approved 3rd party apps goodness, I'm sure.

Telecommuting means, literally, commuting at a distance, or remote commuting, just like television means vision at a distance, or remote vision, and telecommunication means communication over a distance.
As such, the word "telecommuting" is a pleonasm and thus nonsensical, the creation of a very confused, uneducated person.
Teleworking on the other hand means working at a distance, or from far away (from the office), and the term that should be used.

Totally brilliant idea: make version designed for priests only, and after "the sinner"'s done putting their sins in, and eventually adding some audio notes, the confession is packed up, encrypted, and uploaded to some central servers, from where it can be picked up by any of the priests who have the other application - a bit like voicemail + text for them. They go through the confession and record an audio reply, which then gets routed back to "the sinner". This is perfect!

If you can't tell a vinyl record from a CD in the same sound system you've probably burned your ears away.

My question is - what do you think I think I hear?

This is not a discussion on turntables. I simply pointed out that $80 buys a spinning device of some sort, perhaps, but not a decent turntable, which *starts* at SL-1200; far from me to say that it's the best one available, but it definitely is a very good start.

I think you might be mistaken about the wow and flutter performance of the Technics, but again, this is not about the SL-1200 (I personally own a high-end ClearAudio paired with a Graham Slee phono stage).

Let me start off by saying that I completely agree regarding classic rock (and not only!) and vinyl as the perfect marriage. However you have given out the perfect recipe for a sub-mediocre listening experience in your post. Here's why: - there's nothing decent about a $80 turntable, and you will never get "the sound" out of it. Ever. A decent turntable is $500 and up, for fairly low values of decent, and without a pre-amp (e.g. Technics SL-1200); - all recent Beatles vinyls are made from digital sources, so you get an analogue medium storing a digital transfer (designed for CD production) of an analogue original; there's nothing gained here. Beatles vinyls cut from analogue source in near-mint or excellent condition are quite expensive and not easy to find. Also there's a fair bit of music produced after 1995 (which is by the way a year completely randomly picked) that's been given good analogue vinyl releases, cut from original master tapes without an intermediary digital step. Of course "fair bit" and "music" are subject to personal interpretation.

You have no idea what you're talking about, do you?

Who the fuck voted this insightful? It's just an inflammatory zealot opinion.