He's no doubt referencing the iPhone that police bent over backwards to help Apple recover. They seemed happy to stoop that low for a corporation, so why not a citizen?

And don't strawman this. While it makes sense to assign more resources to high value items, the issue the poster has is obviously the fact that it isn't just "less" resources; it's no resources at all being assigned.

Yeah but, "toilet humour" is still toilet humour even outside of the vicinity of a toilet.

False is redundant. They're all liars.

Isn't it also because COBOL was categorized as a dangerous substance, with a threat to health of the programmers that use at least as great as builders with asbestos?

"Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness."

-- Ghandi.

I would far prefer the 20 inch cock.

My money is on him passing out from the ridiculous amount of blood required for him to get an erection.

Yes. Shortly after, blood soaked shards of glass start dropping out of his ruptured anus.

It's one of those few times you feel lucky for the video being of poor quality. Though I can't blame youtube for having seen this. My curiosity led me to it some years ago,

I was hoping for a much larger participation.

Marriage?

The right of an expectation to not be lynched by homophobes?

The only good thing about the average Christian is he's slightly less likely to support your execution than the average Muslim. There's no added value that Christianity or any religion can offer to secular altruism that is natural to humanity. I wonder if you'll still love Christian citizens when a family member of yours has a debilitating, possibly life threatening condition that could have been treated, were it not for the Christian lobbying groups - the ones funded by those Christian citizens you praise so much - who pressured the government to pass laws against the treatment because it involves the death of an organism orders of magnitude less complex than a fly.

You're right. We should quietly accept the kid-glove treatment that religion gets in society as its influence grows and destabilises the world around us. It's about time that society started reacting like this to every bit of religious idiocy - ie, all of it. Somehow it's not politically correct to point out that so called religious extremists are neither such a minority as it's polite to say, or in fact that far removed in beliefs from so-called religious moderates. When I hear Muslim commentators for instance talking about how the vast majority of Muslims are peaceful people who are in no way represented by the actions of a few crazies, my thoughts immediately go to Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Afghanistan, etc. The list of predominantly Muslim countries reads like a Who's who of dictatorships, sham "democracies" and Human Rights violators incorporated. It's only unfortunate that this speaking out that you hate is so rare. The entire religious institution needs dismantling - if not now, then certainly in the aftermath of World War 3, which it will no doubt be the cause of.

Is anyone really surprised? Religious people doing something stupid should not be news when the very state of religion itself requires its participants to be wilfully ignorant. Hopefully some day they'll all think their God has granted them the gift of flight, and jump off the nearest cliff.

"700+ hp"

Who else had to double/triple take on that to read hp as horsepower instead of hit points?

It's not nearly as simple as native always being better than non-native. I'm no expert on it, but my understanding of it is that the most used parts of the code are compiled by the JVM anyway, so it is a native vs native comparison. There is then the overhead of this compilation and the JVM startup, as well as lesser used parts of the code that may not be converted, but in theory at least, since java is natively compiled at runtime, there are optimisations java can make that a C compiler simply cannot.

The absurd part is the 'seems to be powerful enough', and 'browsers, iWork and Skype'. You're defending the iPad on the basis of it being "good enough" when for half the price it costs, you could get a low end laptop/high end netbook with no need for qualifiers like that. And rather crucially, this would be a platform that could expand easily to meet future unseen needs you may have, unlike the iPad, from which you must get a permission slip from Hallmonitor Jobs.