Pretty much anyone who is calling Obama a "socialist" doesn't understand what Socialism means, doesn't understand just how skewed to the political right the US is politically, and doesn't understand that for a lot of us in the rest of the world, being at least a bit Socialist is a *good* thing. I am in Canada and we are sadly heading further to the right than we have been in the past and its proving to only be a bad thing for the country IMHO. As a Canadian, I view Obama as being pretty definitely Right-Wing in almost all regards. The Republicans qualify as "Batshit insane Right Wing" on the other hand :)

Not just an urban legend, it's fucking stupid. Teachers wouldn't know who was connected? Please.

Every year or so you read about all of these brilliant researchers working on fascinating projects for them. The rest of the time, it's just one mediocre release of Windows and Office after another.

It's like a Michael Crichton book: Some guy brings dinosaurs back and all he can think to do with it is open an amusement park.

Bat-Mite? Surely you mean "Rabid Cousin Oliver."

The only time I can recall doing TDD, we started out with unit tests for everything but as time went on the managers grew upset with how long things were taking to develop and the only choice was to abandon writing the tests and just plow on.

An adjustable seat also adds weight, which increases fuel costs.

I cannot live without pads of graph paper. Anything written on regular blank paper or lined paper is just wrong. It must have the pale blue lines of a proper pad of graph paper or anything I write on it, is rubbish.

I periodically find myself writing something on the latest graph paper pad, only to realize that its not interactive and I cannot edit, so with a sigh I go rewrite the entire thing in a text editor.

Then I go back to the graph paper pad :P

I think there was a Magnum P.I./Simon & Simon cross over episode that was pretty good too.

And those are just the Yankee fans from Queens.

to get the Zune tattoo while you're at it.

Soiled and devalued?
On fire to light your cigar?
New and plastic?
Given to street musicians and the homeless?

I guess it gets trumped by corporate rights and power.

You're a node in a network of douches. It's nothing personal.

It's not just the ebook conversion. Book publishers and packagers have been cutting down on editors and the whole revision for the last couple of decades. "Fuck it," they say, "nobody will notice. And even if they do, they already bought the book. What are they gonna do, buy the next 'Shades of Gray' from another publisher next time?"

Because you know, its always just a choice between being a spineless pathetic guy or supporting stupidly expensive military hardware purchases that the country probably cannot afford but which get the PM some political cred in the US. Its black or white, there can't possibly be a different solution right? /sarcasm off

What a fucking moron