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I don't know, I think Godwin's law is legal, if not tolerated, world-wide.

The Rat Park link is an interesting read.

I think one reason is that when Company A has a product and strategy (and/or lockin) that works, Company B often has to try a different path to differentiate their product, or have to do things differently because of patents, whatever. Often that different path is not optimal, but the optimal path is not open.

sr

I'll call your skip and raise a toast.

I imagine the same thing can be said for alcohol.

sr

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy"

A few thoughts come to mind:

1) I imagine the same thing could more or less be said about libraries. After all, the vast majority of books in a large library go unread at any given time

2) Eventually our current nation-states will grow old and die. The cultures that replace them might find it useful to destroy whatever archives that they can find, or it might happen by warfare or accident.

3) LOCKSS. Lot's Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe. Too bad the Library of Alexandria didn't have a redundant offsite backup location.

sr

“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”
J.R.R. Tolkien

Remember when getting Slashdotted meant that *another* site had problems?

Your last place would have found greenbar printouts useful.

I've seen 3 or 4 attempts to make the nested logic correct and/or readable. The statement with the goto's was easy to understand. Immediately. I think it proves the point that sometimes goto's have a place, and actually may be a better solution.

Absolutely. It took me about 5 seconds to understand the snippet with the goto's. The one with brackets is just ugly, though indentation would have made it clearer and easier to match up the brackets (which of course, the OP may have done and /.'s editing tools failed to render). I imagine that a bracket mismatch could provide for some debugging hilarity, just as an errant goto. Both get the job done, though. As long as the goto logic is nice and tight, it can provide for both hard- and meat-ware efficiency.

Funny link. (warning, ads, of course).

sr

“The facts have a well-known liberal bias” Rob Corddry

One never forgets when munitions come their way.

I agree. I like Brian when he's off the cuff, or doing other stuff other than news; I find him funny, and often "smart" funny. When he does news, he talks in that slow...clear...Mr. Rodgers voice which bores the hell out of me.