unless you were born yesterday.

Rational explanation for phenomenon has been found. News at 10.

In the same sense that burglars and their victims have a relationship?

Things have to get worse before they can get truly better, and who better to do that than the GOP?

Jimmy Carter is still alive, and eligible to run again.

How is a third party vote "wasted"?

If you voted for the person who won, you wasted your vote -- they would have won without it, and you didn't send them any messages.

If you voted for the major party candidate who lost, you wasted your vote because he lost, and again you didn't send any message.

Voting third party is the only way not to waste your vote.

You Windows users are still using the command line? Why not switch to Linux where we have a choice of numerous UI's to suit every taste (and quite a few that propably suit none - fvwm95, anyone?)

You must have an iPhone. X is not the problem. And Google are deeply in the pit of hell as the rest of the problem makers! They, like all the other "high tech" morons, keep bloody reworking the UI.

If Linux is to have a chance, someone has to do a Gnome2/XP like interface, and not keep changing it. Serious users want drop down text menus with meaningful function names. They do not want wierd looking coloured blobs with no inherent meaning that vanish with each new release to be replaced by a completely unrelated, wierd coloured blob, that does something the same, only different. Nor do they want (Google, I am looking at Android Lollipop) something that looks like a Fisher-Price toy and doesn't work - for business!

For most non technical users Its like car manufacturers kept moving the pedals around with every new model. (They used to do that, till the governments stopped them).

You have no idea how many people have to go to classes to learn how to "press the left mouse button". If I were running a large government department, I would mandate "drop down text menus whose location, structure and font will not be changed for the next 20 years" for all software bids.

Who the hell uses "modern touch screen devices" in the workplace other than the McDonalds sales team?

Most workplaces use a PC for

a) Word
b) The Intranet
c) Some businesss specific Access app (probably for their timesheets).

Access to pron^H^H^H^H the internet is only marginally more available than in North Korea, and probably more effectively monitored.

Most workplaces are not doing software develiopment or research. They are doing actual work and that involves lifting and carrying, bending down, walking around and absolutely nothing that involves a computer.

"Most people" do cleaning, care work, cook food, drive trucks, farm, repair stuff (excluding those who do drugs and don't have a workplace at all). There are most certainly more supermarket shelf stackers than software developers. Hell, even primary school teachers barely use a computer, and that is probably still runnng XP in most state schools. Hint: Get out of the damned basement!

Some people do not manage remove servers over long periods.

You install three identical servers: one running the public facing web server, one running the database server, connected by a separate, private network. The third one is available for the new version of the software to be installed, and then activated. Once the software is upgraded on all three, you keep it runnning as a hot standby. If reliable service to clients is not worth more than the cost of running a hot standby, you probably would not have any servers in a colo.