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I didn't say you were paranoid, you must have imagined that.

And note that writing unreadable/unmaintainable code is an aspect of the *coder*, not the language.

That's the funniest thing I've read today. We're talking about a language that has 82 ways to say a = a + 1, 81 of which are completely, gobbletygookly incomprehensible (and look like cartoon swearing) to the average (non-brain damaged) programmer. The FACT is, the language is deliberately designed to reward the cuteseypoo "I (self) graduated from VisualBasic, and I'm WAY cleverer than the rest of you", combined with the "this is a contract job, and I've never ever ever had to maintain somebody else's code" effect, produces the worst, most unreadable, most unmaintainable code on the planet. Get the average Perl programmer, point a .357 magnum at their heads, and ask them to modify something they wrote six months ago, and watch the bloody hilarity ensue.

Fear; fear and surprise; fear, surprise and ruthless efficiency! Fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency and near fanatical devotion to the Pope! Umm, I'll post again.

That has GOT to be the most trollish post I've ever ever ever read here. You have NO IDEA how Slashdot works, do you?

I am altering the deal; pray I do not alter it any further.

Apple and Microsoft control their own update process on all platforms; Google does not. It's the individual carriers who are getting in the way of Android updates.

Oh come on. They're going to be regulated by the ultra-strict US banking regulations. Those poor bankers can't get away with ANYTHING.

Trust me, when the Disney execs get done with it, there will be more than enough princesses.

Could you be more ... specific?

No way. I hear JJ is saving the Kardashians for the DS9 reboot.

Careful citizen, you're skirting dangerously close to thougtcrime.

Of course, the politicians and security beaurocrats are the ones defining which content is "certain" content. But what's really laughable is that actions like this _might_ be precluded by privacy rights, rather than freedom-of speech rights. Sure, I know it's Europe, so muzzling some ideas is deemed OK, theorecically to prevent another Nazi uprising (or whatever).

Kirk: "Then ... ... ... ... let ... them ... die".

FTFY

I used to work for an after-market brake parts supplier. They had a full-line catalog: if you needed a master cylinder for a 55 Checker cab, they could sell you one. The sales and marketing guys used to have wet dreams about the day when Cuba would open up.

...an effort to rewrite laws just hours after dozens of arrests across Europe offered dramatic evidence of the threats security officials say are facing the continent.

'Cause the Patriot Act worked out so well for us.

Never mind worrying about the terrorists winning, it's the fascists who are doing the winning